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We have been studying Colossians, at our little church, where people all over the world read the sermons and watch the videos.
Two passages came up last Sunday -
- KJV Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
- KJV Colossians 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; 24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
The clergy deceive people all the time. They pride themselves on their ability to get what they want by lying and manipulating others. They elect Doctrinal Pussycats who do even more lying than the normal quota.
This could apply to Missouri, the ELS, or the mini-micro sects, but I will focus on WELS, where lying is an art, a habit, perhaps an addiction.
The Wisconsin Synod is lying when it claims to be Lutheran. The same people who use the term when it is convenient will hide it. But that is not the fundamental issue. The leadership of WELS is almost entirely anti-Lutheran and thoroughly corrupt.
It is a lie that the colleges are Lutheran. They are packed with Fuller/Willow Creek wannabees. The last mission event featured heresiarch Paul Calvin Kelm and almost sneaked in their WELS female pastor (from Latte
It is a lie that the seminary is Lutheran. The Sausage Factory has been promoting Reformed doctrine for several decades while the clergy, the boards, and DPs, and the influential laity joined in pretending to be orthodox and faking fellowship principles. When I was there, a poster on Panzer's door advertised the Billy Graham School of Evangelism. Wanna go? "See Paul Kelm." Of course, Kelm had to be the mission speaker each year. Worse than that, the faculty filled the mushy heads of the Kinder with required reading from anti-Lutherans.
The man who sinned most in this regard was David Valleskey, who was promoted to the Mequon presidency for this work. The new guy is no better. The seminary board members are liars. The DPs are liars. And the Love Shack drones are liars. They cannot even run a Lutheran seminary.
SP Schroeder just advertised the feminist conference Church and Change is running, courtesy of the seminary president's wife. WELS does not ordain women? True, but that is also a lie, a clever one. They just set up women pastors who lead the worship services and celebrate Holy Communion. Larry Olson's entire program at Mary Lou College is aimed at blurring all distinctions until women are ordained by default.
See ELCA for the methods used so successfully in gay ordination. WELS parallels ELCA in using the same methods, including an in-house lobbying group whose tentacles include the Love Shack, the Sausage Factory, both colleges, and the synod magazine. WELS has that in Church and Change. Nothing has been done about that beehive or any other beehive.
WELS even lies about GA, which is a festival of lies. There will be more comments, perhaps, that GA is done. That is a lie. The secret GA continues and the Sausage Factory knows it. So do the others who pretend not to know.
Woe, woe, thrice woe upon anyone who tells the truth about the liars. The same spineless DPs and CPs who cannot deal with rank heresy will pound the truth-teller into the dirt. These leaders pretend to be helpless imbeciles who cannot remember their own last names, but they turn into savages when their apostasy is threatened. And they have such high and lofty knowledge that they read people's thoughts and motives, which are evil. And they talk while the slaves are supposed to listen. Wormtongue turns into a wrathful wizard in the stuffy confines of a pastor's office.
Here is a non-WELS example of DP behavior. One Missouri pastor was trying to keep a known sex offender from serving in another parish. The DP screamed at the top of his lungs at the pastor, in the pastor's own office. He slammed his briefcase down on the desk for emphasis. On the way out of the building, the DP said to a parish member, "You have one of the finest ministers in the whole district." No, it was not SP Jerry, but a DP known to be "conservative." Ha.
There are as many other examples as well.
Why are the Lutheran synods in epic fail mode? Forget all the sociological excuses. They are lies purchased from experts to excuse the corruption, dishonesty, and venality of the organizational leadership. Here is a great one from WELS - "The Masonic Lodge is losing members, too." As the lodge goes, so goes WELS, it seems. Why is no one laughing?
The Boomer DPs are telling the pastors, "You are not going to recognize the synod in five years." The heritage of the past has been squandered, to a large extent by the Boomer DPs. They are not useless. They are useful in backing Church and Change. Lots of perks, too.
I do not think much will change. It can, with God's Word and the Confessions. But I think people are too comfortable in the sleazy methods of the past. The ministry is pure socialism. If they get rid of pastors in a limited job market, there are more calls available for Pastor Hategood. The apostates circle the wagons. The conservatives form a circle and start firing.
The funny thing is - Church and Change telegraphs its intentions and hides very little.
Jeske is WELS? That is a lie. He is not even a Lutheran.
Something is being done about Jeske's anti-Lutheran "LCMS media ministry"? That is a lie.
Kelm was disciplined with two calls at the same time.
God has been punishing all this. I heard Mequon professors squeaking about how much they have lost in budget perks. Exactly what have they done to protest the doctrinal aberration of their fellow professors, their seminary presidents? Nothing. It is a good gig. Teach a few hours a week, finish at noon, take four months for vacation. Housing provided. Very few slots. Instant infallibility once appointed. Why rock the boat, especially when the skiff is so small? The classes are now so small that the faculty can finish their graduate work.
God will continue to punish the lies. One of the worst New Testament sins is "a respecter of persons." That means looking at the bank account of the layman or the DNA of the false teacher. WELS is very keen on both, but so are the other failing Lutheran groups.
