Everyone is supposed to think that DP Buchholz and SP Schroeder are going to turn back the apostate tide in WELS.
However, even the most casual observer can see that business continues as usual.
SP Schroeder recently promoted the Church and Change feminist conference. The LCA, ALC, and Missouri Synod knew they could move the radical agenda forward best in three areas:
1. Women's ministry.
2. Youth ministry.
3. Campus ministry.
The Arizona-California-Nevada District Teen Wet N Wild Conference featured a lady professor from Willowcreek Little College telling the teens how their brains worked.
That was a two-fer, so the Changers at WLC were high-fiving all the way to their retreat at Trinity, Deerfield. Cutting edge all around.
The oldest ambulatory Changer, Paul Calvin Kelm, is doing campus ministry, which will soon explode into Milwaukee, according to WLC hype.
Notice how all three "ministries" emerged from WLC? Church and Change began there with Charis. Kelm has returned there and still goes out to spread his odious influence.
The WELS Women's Ministry fever is all Church and Change, with Church and Change advisors.
When Wayne Mueller was pushed off the Mequon faculty for false doctrine, as related to me by Slick Brenner, he got a raise as the head of Perish Services. Mueller turned PS into a complete Shrinker operation. The heads of Youth Education and Adult Education were given calls to go elsewhere and new calls were issued for Youth Discipleship and Adult Discipleship. Titles mean something - it's still Discipleship, as in "make disciples," the mantra for Fuller disciples.
Therefore, from the top down, the Youth Discipleship people are going to promote the agenda.
The Changers are quick on the draw, slow of mind, dead to sound doctrine.
In summary, all three "ministries" are beyond criticism and will remain the bunkers from which the Shrinkers attack.
If anyone demurs - gasp - Dapper Don is there to quote Scripture against it.
