The apostate Doctrinal Pussycats are trying to shore up their support by trashing me. I hear interesting stories, which are nothing new. The Boomer DPs are useless, except for propping up their golfing buddies in Church and Change.
Here is the low down. You DPs have buried so much garbage, told so many lies, and ducked so many responsibilities that the backlash is only beginning.
Someone wrote to me, a while ago, "When you finally die, everyone will be relieved."
Whether God wills one thing or another, His Word will continue to be a double-edged sword. The Book of Concord will still be the best exposition of Scripture found in Christendom, whether the clergy confess its truths or not.
God may continue to curse and punish WELS/ELS with false teachers and weak-kneed leaders.
Oddly, the same DPs who are too chicken to address false doctrine will go hormonal when their bad leadership is challenged in the least.
WELS told everyone that Columbus would calm down when I resigned from the synod, because I was tired of the lying adulterous leaders and false
The DPs fear that the clergy and laity can unite to take the Shrinkers' trotters from the trough. Fortunately, the economic crisis is forcing the issue. Unfortunately, the damage is done and the money is gone forever. But the Word works miracles.
As several people have pointed out, many are disillusioned with Church Growth. The fad turns mediocre lazy-bones into atheists. Many of the atheists stay in the clergy ranks because they can ride a congregation or synod all the way down to the bottom. Some are clever enough to get hired back after being fired. Wayne Mueller and Jim Aderman both came back from the dead, raised by the lion's grip of a master mason.
The Ex-Sp, Gurgle, got about $200,000 a year for 14 years, before he was encouraged to leave for parts unknown. That is a total of $2.8 million dollars, sports fans, and does not count the perks, such as free rides to work with the treasurer - whom he fired for doing his job. Gurgle too came back from the dead. Gurgle needed a retirement gig in Texas? Suddenly the teachers at Holy Word in Austin got their pay cut and he has a retirement job. How cosy for him. They take up an offering at the teachers' meeting to pay for the new staffer. Too bad he did not apply for the free vicar job.
And yet Holy Word has money to blow on going multi-site in Round Rock, where WELS already has a mission.
Pardon me for wandering around the fractured landscape of WELS stewardship, but does anyone get my drift?
That kind of wastefulness and self-centeredness cannot go on forever. Missouri is learning the same thing, after the extravagance of Kieschnick and his merry band of CG pranksters.
The free-spending came from a lack of trust in the Word, a profound trust in money. "If only we had enough money to do whatever we wanted!" The money burned a big hole in their nasty little pocketses and made their apostasy worse.
Anyone who thinks I am the cause of unrest should look in the mirror and crack open their dusty old Triglotta, which is probably way below Your Church and Grow! and Management By Objective.
- "We have no intention of yielding aught of the eternal, immutable truth of God for the sake of temporal peace, tranquility, and unity (which, moreover, is not in our power to do).
- Nor would such peace and unity, since it is devised against the truth and for its suppression, have any permanency.
- Still less are we inclined to adorn and conceal a corruption of the pure doctrine and manifest, condemned errors.
- But we entertain heartfelt pleasure and love for, and are on our part sincerely inclined and anxious to advance, that unity according to our utmost power, by which His glory remains to God uninjured, nothing of the divine truth of the Holy Gospel is surrendered, no room is given to the least error, poor sinners are brought to true, genuine repentance, raised up by faith, confirmed in new obedience, and thus justified and eternally saved alone through the sole merit of Christ."
(Closing of Formula of Concord, Triglotta. p. 1095) Francis Pieper, The Difference Between Orthodox And Heterodox Churches, and Supplement, Coos Bay, Oregon: St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1981, p. 65. Tappert, p. 632. Heiser, p. 294. FC SD XI, #94-96.
Each point is extremely significant and needs to be considered with great care, because it is our confession as Lutherans.
In my words:
I. We will never give up the truth of the Scriptures for the sake of the organization, to make it operate smoothly, to fake an immaculate image for a human institution. In fact, it is humanly impossible for us to manufacture unity.
II. Even if we tried, a false unity would never last. Look at the debacle of the church and ministry articles foisted upon the Little Sect on the Prairie by WELS Shrinkers.
III. We are never going to say, "This c-a-n be understood correctly," as if we have permission to hide the foul, stinking errors of false doctrine.There are not "g-r-e-y areas of Scripture," only a lack of grey matter applied to the Word.
IV. Our great love is for the pure doctrine of God's Word, the Gospel of grace, which gives God the glory and rescues sinners from eternal destruction, so they come to repentance and believe in the Promises of God, justified by faith alone in the merits of Christ.
Cowardly DPs, venomous Shrinkers, pusillanimous bureaucrats, do you imagine you can cover up your fellowship with Sweet, Stetzer, Wagner, Driscoll, Groeschel, and Stanley with personal attacks? Where is the logical connection? Why are you constantly engaged in shameful tactics? Why do you need to wipe your hob-nailed boots on every single person, laity or clergy, who gets in your way?
Come clean about your dirty, disgusting lies and ask for forgiveness before the cardiologist pronounces an end to your thieving, dishonest lives.
