rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Keeping a Corrupt System Corrupt":
All of this sort of explains why the laity may be so timid. My eyes were first opened when, as a newly elected elder at my first meeting, I witnessed the pastor bullying one of the elders. I wondered then what it was all about. This elder stopped any involvement in congregational activities, and became virtually delinquent before he passed away. He had developed quite an attitude.
Other board members who see this type of treatment most likely figure that they had better not make too many waves or they will fall out of favor. I have heard a lot of complaints from the women who suggest that it may be better if they could be in those positions of leadership because more could be accomplished. This is not the Biblical solution. When the women see the cowardice of many of the men, they often get desperate.
There is an overdue emphasis in the WELS to get the high school grads to attend MLC. There is all this blathering about serving, etc. Going to MLC is touted like joining a fraternity. You allegedly receive all kinds of benefits from it. I am not exaggerating one bit. There is this subtle implication that anything else is substandard.
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GJ - The prep school grads in WELS called the area Lutheran schools "public schools" with a sneer. The Northwestern Prep graduates sneered at MLS grads, etc. Bullying is pandemic in the synodical scholls, so it is important to get that training and get one's ticket punched.
Bullies are cowardly thugs, and they stick together to enhance their feeble sense of worth.
The LCMS has its clergy bullies too, although some of them only think they are clergy.
The ELS re-elected their worst bully as Synodical President. Being whipped with a coat-hanger at NWC did wonders for instilling the right attitude in Pope John's subordinate.
