Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Looking for Vernon Harley Papers":
"We are going to have to rely on the rural WELS segment to step up and Just Say No to Enthusiasm."
What?!! Are you KIDDING me? Rural congregations? Have you been to any? Rural, country and city have nothing to do with this. I have been to more than one in fact many "rural" congregations that are just as on the path to Enthusiasm and wildly into CGM as you can get. Hear are two for starters:
St. Peters in Freedom North of Appleton. Ron Ash comes from there and is one of the founders of the Core. St. Peters is well involved with the New Paradigm church or what ever new name it takes this month. Even has more than one woman openly pitching Willow Creek-ism and all of the CGM methodology to women's groups in WELS or anyone else who cares to listen.
Rural congregation, St. Matthews http://www.stmatthewsonline.org/ is perhaps one of the newest and RURAL of how to redo your congregation into a seeker friendly, replete with doses of "Come to Jesus" talk.
Look at their web page above for your dose of "rural goes to the city."
No, Rural congregations in WELS are perhaps just as ripe or more ripe for the picking than any city church. It has nothing to do with the discussion. Error, false doctrine and Enthusiasm know NO boundaries.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
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GJ - The Scriptures and the Confessions are the solution, not the honeywagon.
