unlike the Episcopalians, who actually ordained women first.
WELS/ELS declared a moratorium, not having the spine to deal with the issue.
These beach priestesses remind me of the ill-named Intrepids.
The Intrepids have revealed the true nature of WELS - a mind-control cult.
Like a Brownie troop that wandered onto the subway tracks because their leader was in the john, you decided to step on the Third Rail of the Syn Conference - UOJ. You experienced the immediate and lasting thrill of electrocution.
The Trepids also allowed comments from Brett Meyer and me. What were you thinking? The WELS franchise does not allow independent thinking from anyone.
One day Circuit Pastor Steve Spencer was urging on your blog - Fight! Fight! Fight!
The next day most of you were shouting - Run! Surrender! Throw down your weapons!
Learn from Church and Change, girls. I cannot say men, because you have acted like little girls wetting yourselves. One of the best and most discerning comments came from WELS Church Lady, who grasps the topic and explains herself well. Joe Krohn (earlier associated with the Church and Change list) also said more in a few words than the rest of you can obfuscate in thousands.
Church and Change has had the same agenda since 1977 or before. I realize they formed later than that, with your offering money skimmed from the plate, but they were the same leaders as now.
Church and Change has never backed down on anything. Have they ended any discussion as pusillanimously as you have? For them to imitate your sad spectacle, they would have had to conclude with "We now realize the Word alone is efficacious and that all our gimmicks are as useless as Deformed theology."
Church and Change does not even address matters beneath its royal standing in the cult. For example, when Paul Calvin Kelm was hosting the Leonard Sweet conference for WELS Church and Change, he would NOT back down or even answer critics from within Church and Change. The conference went on as usual. The debate went on for a long time, not for a mere 24 hours.
Likewise, Church and Change never abandons its own. They are the Navy SEALs of false doctrine. They arranged one call after another for Kelm, who is forever in trouble. When he was finally canned at The Guilt Factory, his buddies at Willowcreek's Little College invented a chaplain's position for the aging heretic.
"Fight, fight, fight"?
To quote Gibbon, "You fought without discipline and ran without shame."
I know you were threatened, from the SP on down. Boo hoo. Be sure to read the underlined passages in Deutschlander's Theology of the Cross. You trust Holy Mother Synod but do not trust God to care for you.
You formed to deal with the doctrinal problems of WELS/ELS? You are the problem.
