Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Crystal Cathedral - Home of Church Growth Movement...":
The 80-year-old Schuller demoted his son when the offerings went down, but I think that was a way-bad call on the senior's part. It had nothing to do with the son, but just bad economics, and their established flock was getting older and was quickly dying off.
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GJ - The lesson - All the big Evangelical media ministries of the 1980s are fading fast. I remember the mainline leaders being enraged that any given TV ministry was taking in more money annually than their national, centuries old denomination. They raved against D. James Kennedy, Billy Graham, Robert Schuller, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and a few others. Pat Robertson was in TV early and has made a bundle with his talk show, entertainment style format. His son is carrying on the show, and it is even harder to believe under his guidance.
The WELS-LCMS-ELS gurus are pursuing the fads of the moment. Andy Stanley the covert Babtist is so cool that the foxes of Fox Valley are studying his book on how to be just like him. Glende and Ski are channeling so many Schwaermer leaders that one can hardly pick the number one false teacher they are following.
Shoveling snow today, I concluded that getting even is the biggest single motivation for CG in WELS. The guys started out with doctrinal problems and got biffed around for it. Other dysfunctional types found comfort and security in a secretive anti-establishment group. They rejoiced that they could advance one another's careers while icing their more able peers'.
So follow the megas of WELS-ELS-LCMC and buy up their assets in a few years, 10 cents on the dollar, max.
I have always wanted to broadcast with 20 sub-woofers behind me, popcorn machines popping, soda fountains giving up mounds of ice cream, Coke on tap.
Mrs. Ichabod said that one is leased.
Never mind.
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dk has left a new comment on your post ""Who Picked Your Shirt - Ray Charles?" and Other S...":
Hey professor
I think that under the entry "Gurgel" in the Ichaslang lexicon there oughta be a second meaning:
2. verb, to gurgel, gurgling:
The vocal affectation or mannerism a person acquires when pretending to be Confessionally Lutheran. This behavior often may be associated with...(fill in the blank)
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GJ - I spell his name "gurgle" because that was the sound of WELS going down the drain during his inspired leadership. He was the conservative dream candidate originally. Really. No kidding. He was against merging NWC and DMLC, then led the deception that resulted in a fading, failing MLC. As he said, "Denying that he had the gifts of leadership would be false modesty."
May he do for Patterson what he did for WELS.
