If so, you belong in Church and Change.
Ron Ash chairs C and C - Ski was on the board.
Ski, Glende, and Bishop Katie went to Seattle for a "pastor conference" with...?
Ski taking in members from another WELS CG church? That is just the beginning.
The problem with aping the worst of the Reformed is this - Whatever WELS tries to do, the pure Enthusiasts have done better.
All the work of Ron Roth, Paul Calvin Kelm, David Valleskey, Fuller Bivens, David Hartmann, James Hueber, Larry Oh! Olson, and the spineless DPs has gone toward training people to be Enthusiasts. Missouri, the ELS, and the CLC (sic) are doing the same thing.
Once the Half-Way Enthusiasts find out where the good stuff is, they will bolt for greener pastures.
In a decade, the Fox Valley WELS CG congregations will either be empty of members or in fellowship with Unitarian-Universalists. Sure, it may take a little longer than that, but it will happen.
Anti-Confessionalism is inherently anti-Biblical.
"The modern radical spirit which would sweep away the Formula of Concord as a Confession of the Church, will not, in the end, be curbed, until it has swept away the Augsburg Confession, and the ancient Confessions of the Church--yea, not until it has crossed the borders of Scripture itself, and swept out of the Word whatsoever is not in accord with its own critical mode of thinking. The far-sighted rationalist theologian and Dresden court preacher, Ammon, grasped the logic of a mere spirit of progress, when he said: 'Experience teaches us that those who reject a Creed, will speedily reject the Scriptures themselves.'"
Theodore E. Schmauk and C. Theodore Benze, The Confessional Principle and the Confessions, as Embodying the Evangelical Confession of the Christian Church, Philadelphia: General Council Publication Board, 1911, p. 685.
