One reader who fought against Church Growth in WELS began talking about joining the Roman Catholic Church. I hope I talked her out of it.
Another reader loved all the quotations I provided. He had long discussions and debates with various UOJ advocates. He loved Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant - and he phoned to tell me he joined the Catholic Church as the "one true church."
Third Case
I saw this posting on the Internet and recognized the author, Jerry Parker, as a Lutheran who went to the Kokomo conference, held at the farm where one family received the Left Foot of Fellowship for denying the Kokomo Statements. The other family was also there.
Jerry Parker is a retired librarian. We exchanged many emails over the years, but none for quite a long time.
I was just thinking today that many people are being driven away from the Lutheran Church by UOJ, Receptionism (Calvinism in disguise), and Church Growthism. This is another case.
This is one more case, in my opinion. The ELS, LCMS, and WELS no longer have a Lutheran voice, but they will not admit it. The leaders have not tried Lutheran doctrine and found it wanting. They have hardly tried it at all.
And they have proven hundreds of times that someone is promoted for studying at Fuller Seminary, defenestrated for questioning Fuller. The results are exactly what anyone would expect.
But the denial continues. The Lutheran Church leaders of this era have much to answer for the souls they have destroyed, the marriages they have broken up with their adultery, and the children they have abused.
