Good Sign - Comments Getting More Abusive

Do they need to switch to de-caff?

I have been enjoying some comments lately, especially abusive and scatological ones. I figure the Shrinkers are starting to feel their losses. UOJ is not so eager to share its thousand points of darkness.

Here is a great irony. Every so often UOJ has to pop up and assert its strange and bizarre claims. That only reminds people how perverted the UOJ opinion is. Shoring it up with the Brief Statement and Walther does not help matters. That only reminds people about the heritage of UOJ and the fallibility of the Synodical Conference.

I hear that FIC  ran another UOJ article. I only read the magazine from its websty on WELS.net. Although WELS pumps a ton of money into "technology" each year, the FIC  updates are painfully slow - only October is showing at the moment. Is the magazine not produced on a computer? How difficult is it to post those shallow, Babtist-loving, UOJ articles? Would an update hurt circulation? Oh, that makes me laugh. WELS pastors have despised the magazine for several decades. One told a member he only reads the Mark Schroeder articles.

The only thing FIC can claim for itself is a two-year stretch trying to promote such Shrinker atrocities as Latte Lutheran Church, the Chicago stealth church, and Church and Change articles galore.

Michael Schottey has left a new comment on your post "Like Father, Like Son":

Have you ever been to Crossroads in Chicago? If you report about the vices of a congregation only in generic terms with no actual evidence or concrete information about it. It is mere ignorant slander.

For your information, Crossroads is a very law/gospel biblical based church that does a good job of providing spiritual milk every Sunday to a congregation of mostly visitors yet having a very good method of Bible instruction classes for members who need spiritual whole food.

Also, their "mission statement" is almost identical to the one you wrote at WLS.

A synodical publication is supposed to advance the agenda of the organization. That has been painfully obvious in the ELCA, LCMS, WELS, and the Little Sect on the Prairie. As WELS leaders always liked to say in the past, when they assumed false doctrine was lodged elsewhere, "A fish rots at the head first."

When the LCA got into quotas, The Lutheran magazine began to run articles based on quotas. The LCA had to admit that their fancy Yorba Linda mega-church experiment was a big flop, but the ELS, WELS, and Missouri mags have promoted the Shrinkers with unabated joy and undiminished ignorance.

Multi-culturalism, via quotas rather than the Gospel, is now assumed in all the four-letter Lutheran groups. Multi-culturalism, financed by Thrivent, is the fad that got the Ft. Hood terrorist labeled as a victim of stress rather than a Soldier of Allah. The ELS still thinks a mixed marriage is a Norwegian married to a Swede. Fuller embraced multi-culturalism a long time ago.

The problem with FIC is this - it no longer represents the WELS at convention. The old Northwestern Lutheran broke with its original mandate under Mischke and Jeb Schaefer. The Shrinkers had control of The Love Shack at that time. They still run FIC, as shown by the Chicanery editorial policy and Chicanery authors like Peter Pan-denominational, Kudu Don Patterson, Retiree James Aderman, Fuller Bivens, and the editor hisself.

Now the Shrinkers are getting their just reward after reaping destruction everywhere, dividing congregations, and grabbing money for themselves. The Shrinker head count at The Love Shack is...shrinking.

FIC could easily be produced as a PDF, emailed to everyone who needs to read it. The Chicanery content of FIC could be entirely eliminated. I have already taken over the promotion of Church and Change. I post their photos and their boasts. I notify people about their conference agenda. I even urge them to attend Chicanery events. What thanks do I get for all this?

1. Abusive comments,
   
2. Four-letter words,
   
3. Shopworn insults,
   
4. Empty threats of legal action,
   
5. Mockery of the kitty photos.

--- Michael Schottey has left a new comment on your post "Good Sign - Comments Getting More Abusive": Awww...thanks for playing along Anon@7:11. The real question is whether or not you're a WELS member, human being, or Christian because you're posting anonymously. But thanks for calling MY accountability into question. I'm too old for that kind of spine twisting maneuver. I have been there. My sister (recently moved from New Ulm to Tulsa, OK) spent two years as a member of Crossroads. Being a family man, I've worshiped, attended Bible Study, and even potlucked there. I've also sat with the pastor there and discussed how foolish I think it is to leave out the name Lutheran so he knows exactly how I feel about that and other CG garbage. But again, thanks for stopping by---whoever you are. *** GJ - I give Michael credit for signing his name and being frank. Open discussions are good. I have no use for people who send insulting and crude comments, anonymously, but it does please me that I have gotten under their skin. If someone sends a comment, it does not de-rez in seven days. I can use it as long as it exists. The defense of the Chicago stealth congregation is typical of WELS attitudes, and I sympathize to some extent (but not enough to stop pounding the Shrinkers). We do not want to break the bonds of friendship and kinship, but we should know the Word will do that. Jesus taught that clearly enough. KJV Mark 3:32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. 33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? 34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. The point of my original post was to highlight the stealth congregation in Chicago. Readers with good memories will recall that the pastor had already studied under the odious Leonard Sweet before Kelm sponsored and defended that particular Chicanery conference. Someone leaked the listserve comments. I highlighted the stealth congregation in Chicago to show how despicable FIC has been. The subsidized WELS magazine is the publishing arm of Church and Change, itself a free-basing parachurch organization. So the suckers of WELS pay for Church and Change to send its propaganda all over the world, via print and the sluggish website (run by another Shrinker). The mission offering is to convey Christ's Gospel to the world? Not so fast. A vast amount of that money goes to promote the most blatant false doctrine, by means of:

1. FIC.
   
2. Various useless periodicals.
   
3. Both mission boards and their CG lackeys.
   
4. Mission counselors, possibly more dangerous than the periodicals.
   
5. Mary Lou College, The Sausage Factory.
   
6. Parachurch CG tumors started with synod money and led by Chicaneries.
   
7. Free staff for well-connected pastors like Don Patterson.
   
8. Doctrinal Pussycat enablers, who get their own fat subsidies for the onerous work of protecting Shrinkers like Parlow, Ski, Witte, Hunter, Olson, Gunn, etc.
   
9. Vicars for cutting-edge Shrinkers like Randy Hunter.

As I have said many times before, the non-Lutherans would brandish pitchforks and burning torches if a speck of baptismal regeneration, Real Presence, or efficacy of the Word emanated from their scrofulous schools and printing presses. They must lick their slavering jaws when the conservative Lutherans show up with wads of Thrivent cash and synod subsidy money in their fists. WELS members - your pastors have earned DMins in Church Growth from such prestige schools as:

1. Gordon Conwell - Witte. Now on the Asian board. Nice promo.
   
2. Fuller Seminary - L. Olson. Waldo Werning Professor of Church Growth at Mary Lou College.
   
3. Denver - John Parlow, St. Mark Depere, a congregation of the Willow Creek Association.
   
4. Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrows in St. Louis - Paul Kelm, the retiring but never shy guru of Reformed doctrine for WELS.