When I let people know what the administration is planning, comments come in:
1. Where is the link?
2. Who told you?
3. Prove it.
4. This is how your fable began...
5. Tell us your source (and scare the rest away).
Here is a question from the Miller Analogies Test, where I scored in the stratosphere:
5, 4, 3, 2,
What is the next number?
The WELS answer is, "I don't know, the DP hasn't told me yet."
When enrollment goes down like that, the answer is obvious to everyone except the brain-washed.
But when I provide thousands of quotations about Reformed doctrine, Church Growth, Romanism, Enthusiasm, justification by faith, UOJ - the response is zilch.
Face it, folks. The clergy are lazy repeat-after-me synod drones. They have no interest in pursuing correct doctrine, even if someone has done years of research to pave their way with rose petals.
One pastor is typical. He was being grumpy with me about my criticisms of CG. He demanded a bunch of articles I had published, with quotations. I sent them on a floppy disk. He answered back, "I remembered. You sent them before." What was the chance he actually read them? He might have read enough to become alarmed at the danger to his job.
When I asked one supposedly anti-CG pastor for a citation from his work, he wrote a letter to various officials. He wanted them to know he had nothing to do with anything I published. I was not allowed to quote him. The problem was, I already quoted him before. The only thing that mattered was absolving himself.
The clergy are chickens - same brain power. Some have an IQ, which they use to promote themselves. But like chickens, they make a lot of noise whenever frightened. The chickens are coming home to roost, as they say. All the evasions and chicanery are piling up on their heads.
The laity can read the documents and see they are being led by girly men who cannot take a stand for anything, cannot defend the truths of the Scriptures, cannot do anything beyond their immediate self-interest.
Proof? Read the synodical publications.
3 comments:
This is a timely post. God's Word, Christ, is efficacious. It either works contrition and faith, by the gracious work of the Holy Spirit in those God has predestined, called, justified, glorified and saved, or it hardens the heart against God's Word, Christ, and prohibits understanding.
It is the hardening of the heart which we see so often. There is no understanding of God's Word in those who are perishing, in those who have rejected Christ and His doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone. After years of focused discussion on the intricate falicies of the false gospel of Universal Objective Justification this point hits home often. I spoke to one (W)ELS teacher about UOJ and gave him the Scripture, Confessional quotations and the statements of his Synod. He said he would get around to it later, right now he was focused on getting his masters degree - it would add another $130.00 a month to his salary.
Pastor Jackson's point hit me yesterday while waiting for someone to publicly express a concern about UOJ or the Scripture and Confessional statements posted as clear rejections of UOJ. Waited to see if anyone would comment in disgust over the (W)ELS ecumenical effort of establishing worship services for a multidenominational congregation led by a (W)ELS staff minister - nothing. Will (W)ELS deal with the issue of their Thrivent money financing murder worldwide? Haven't yet. Will (W)ELS deal with the New Age Emergent Church Growth teachers on their payrolls? Haven't yet. Will (W)ELS allow anyone to openly discuss false doctrine and practice in Holy Mother Synod? No. Will anyone retract the label of "Conservative" or "Confessional" from the spineless (W)ELS Synod President, District Presidents, circuit pastors, clergy, church elder's? No. Few even know what the Book of Concord is.
God's wrath and judgement don't always come in one moment with pillars of fire. Sometimes it happens over time, as it has been happening with the Lutheran churches.
Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Mark 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Yet, people trust their souls to men who will NOT stand up for the Word of God.
Wow, an extra $130 for a Master's degree? Must be nice! That's better than most congregations. That's more than I ever got. (Oooops, that's the "bitter, bitter, little man" talking. Please excuse the inside joke.)
Please don't let my "venting" get in the way of Brett's apt comments. I was out of town for the last several days (don't get me started on what's happened to my home congregation). Let me study the UWGB mess and I'll try to have something to say.
However, please give me a moment to study for my anatomy test. I need that to try to get a decent job.
Scott E. Jungen
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