Many people know that the ELS brought up WELS women celebrating communion. One of the unwritten rules is to avoid naming the situation or the people involved. That rule is necessarily broken when someone brings up error in doctrine and practice. Then numerous people claim to know all kinds of evil to toss at that person, so the individual can be buried under tons of synodical mud. Thus Corky was "brain-damaged" when he named and claimed Church Growth as an evil plaguing WELS.
Thanks to the code of Omerta (silence) in WELS/ELS, we do not know the exact details on WELS women taking on the pastoral role and celebrating communion. After serious discussions over coffee and danish, the ELS/WELS lagomorphs declared a "moratorium" on such pastoral acts until the dawning of a New Age. ELCA did the same with gay clergy. Same method - different synod.
The question remains - how did a group of women decide they could have their own communion service? Unless someone believes that effects have no causes, there must be some energy influencing this change.
Fuller and Willow Creek have been the centers influencing WELS, the LCMS, the ELS, and ELCA for decades. Willow Creek is conveniently close to the Love Shack of WELS, the Little School on the Prairie, and St. Louis. Fuller is handy for the West Coast and a great place for vacation learning - take in Disney and decide which is more fun: Mickey Mouse or Entertainment Evangelism.
Fuller and Willow Creek have had feminist policies in place for decades. Their stated policy is to discipline any man at Fuller who objects to women pastors. That is why apostates love Fuller - a Scriptural position is punished there, doubtless by a committee of Amazons with buzz-cuts and five o'clock shadows.
A man cannot join Willow Creek unless he agrees to place himself under the spiritual leadership of women. On the farm they call that an alter call. For a period of time WELS paid for their mission pastors to be trained at Willow Creek. A TV show about the clergy thus trained could be called "The Sopranos." (Willow Creek also demanded and got a feminist Bible translation.)
In WELS, the TELL Church Growth magazine--cheap as it was--grew into the Evangelism department, and that morphed into Perish Services - now gutted by action of the convention.
Decades ago, Wisconsin Lutheran College had David Valleseky and Larry Olson on its board. Now it has three members from the same non-WELS congregation on the board - the president and two board members. The two chaplains for the tiny college are Shrinkers too.
WLC invited Martin Marty and Archbishop Weakland to speak.
WLC begat Charis, which begat Church and Change, thanks to a generous three-year gift of WELS offering money, midwifed by Perish Services.
Church and Change worked with Perish Services to create many different expressions of feminism, unionism, and doctrinal apostasy.
- WELS Staph Ministry - an infection no one has tried to stop.
- Jars of Clay.
- Mission Counselors and Perish Assistants.
- WELS Emerging Churches.
- Kathie Wendland's Women's Ministry Conference.
- WELS worship conferences, where women teach men.
- Martin Luther College, where men are taught to be subordinate to women in the church - accept female leadership in church or walk the plank.
Meanwhile, the brain-washed followers equate criticism of their apostate leaders with blasphemy, a term used only when God is attacked. And I quote:
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Your Amnesty International Spokeswoman":
Blasphemy! This blog practices blasphemy. WELS pastors and leaders do not suffer from mental disorders. You do.
Blasphemy! This blog practices blasphemy. WELS pastors and leaders do not suffer from mental disorders. You do.
