We Are Dealing With That Issue

Management by Objective - Ours

This is how apostate synods deal with problems:

• That never happened.
• I never heard that.
  
• Do you have proof?
• Who told you?
• No synod is perfect. If you find one, join it. And then it will no longer be perfect.
• Did you sit down with him and tell him his sin? You are the one violating the Word of God!
• We don't worship Luther.
• The Book of Concord is out of date. It's not the Bible.
• Do you know who my father is?
• We are dealing with it, but we have to keep it confidential. You understand, Fred? (Picks up the phone later. "Hey Bob. Fred was in my office. What have you got on him?")
• I know Greek. Do you?

Worship - From WELS

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Anything Goes District, WELS

Vice is a monster of so frightful mein.

As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;

Yet seen too oft, familiar, with her face.

We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Alexander Pope, Essay on Man

Times have changed,
And we've often rewound the clock,
Since the Puritans got a shock,
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today,
Any shock they should try to stem,
'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.

Good authors too who once knew better words,
Now only use four letter words
Writing prose, Anything Goes.

The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today,
And black's white today,
And day's night today,
When most guys today
That women prize today
Are just silly gigolos
And though I'm not a great romancer
I know that I'm bound to answer
When you propose,
Anything goes.

ELCA Churches Finding Good in Doctrinal Chaos

I attended several LCA conventions (Chicago, Toronto) and one ELCA convention (Minneapolis) with Mrs. Ichabod. I heard many examples of synod worship. No one dared dissent from the infallible, inerrant leaders. The bishops, as they came to be called, were told what to do and say. In ELCA, the bishops were stripped of their power on the national level, reducing them to an advisory panel. Imagine my surprise when one of the bishops, Ken Sauer, began urging everyone to leave ELCA and join his new denomination.

The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau has always been an outfit somewhat to the right of ELCA and to the left of Missouri. Many soon-to-be Roman priests comment on the site as well. That is often a topic, but the current debate concerns leaving ELCA. Two great points have been made.

One. The doctrinal debates are making people look at the Scriptures and the Confessions. They are no longer relying on the seminary intellectuals to tell them what to think. Wide open ordination of pan-sexual couples was the final straw about the integrity of ELCA leadership.

Two. The previous crisis in forcing a doctrinal union with the Episcopal Church made one thing clear. There is no possibility of reconciling the Reformed view of the Lord's Supper with the Biblical Lutheran view. They are incompatible. Hence, no legitimate fellowship is possible. (Hear that - WELS, ELS, LCMS?) That claim was based on the Formula of Concord, argued by an ELCA pastor.

If things get worse in WELS and the ELS, their pastors and laity may be moved to study the Formula of Concord, too. Beware, the ELCA members are not looking to join another Emerging Church circus with Whoopie Worship. They had plenty of that, done better, in ELCA. They are leaving ELCA informed and aware. Synod worship will not impress them.

Effects Without Causes - Nothing To See - Move On

Many people know that the ELS brought up WELS women celebrating communion. One of the unwritten rules is to avoid naming the situation or the people involved. That rule is necessarily broken when someone brings up error in doctrine and practice. Then numerous people claim to know all kinds of evil to toss at that person, so the individual can be buried under tons of synodical mud. Thus Corky was "brain-damaged" when he named and claimed Church Growth as an evil plaguing WELS.

Thanks to the code of Omerta (silence) in WELS/ELS, we do not know the exact details on WELS women taking on the pastoral role and celebrating communion. After serious discussions over coffee and danish, the ELS/WELS lagomorphs declared a "moratorium" on such pastoral acts until the dawning of a New Age. ELCA did the same with gay clergy. Same method - different synod.

The question remains - how did a group of women decide they could have their own communion service? Unless someone believes that effects have no causes, there must be some energy influencing this change.

Fuller and Willow Creek have been the centers influencing WELS, the LCMS, the ELS, and ELCA for decades. Willow Creek is conveniently close to the Love Shack of WELS, the Little School on the Prairie, and St. Louis. Fuller is handy for the West Coast and a great place for vacation learning - take in Disney and decide which is more fun: Mickey Mouse or Entertainment Evangelism.

Fuller and Willow Creek have had feminist policies in place for decades. Their stated policy is to discipline any man at Fuller who objects to women pastors. That is why apostates love Fuller - a Scriptural position is punished there, doubtless by a committee of Amazons with buzz-cuts and five o'clock shadows.

A man cannot join Willow Creek unless he agrees to place himself under the spiritual leadership of women. On the farm they call that an alter call. For a period of time WELS paid for their mission pastors to be trained at Willow Creek. A TV show about the clergy thus trained could be called "The Sopranos." (Willow Creek also demanded and got a feminist Bible translation.)

In WELS, the TELL Church Growth magazine--cheap as it was--grew into the Evangelism department, and that morphed into Perish Services - now gutted by action of the convention.

Decades ago, Wisconsin Lutheran College had David Valleseky and Larry Olson on its board. Now it has three members from the same non-WELS congregation on the board - the president and two board members. The two chaplains for the tiny college are Shrinkers too.

WLC invited Martin Marty and Archbishop Weakland to speak.

WLC begat Charis, which begat Church and Change, thanks to a generous three-year gift of WELS offering money, midwifed by Perish Services.

Church and Change worked with Perish Services to create many different expressions of feminism, unionism, and doctrinal apostasy.

• WELS Staph Ministry - an infection no one has tried to stop.
• Jars of Clay.
• Mission Counselors and Perish Assistants.
  
• WELS Emerging Churches.
• Kathie Wendland's Women's Ministry Conference.
• WELS worship conferences, where women teach men.
• Martin Luther College, where men are taught to be subordinate to women in the church - accept female leadership in church or walk the plank.
  

The ELS and WELS doctrinal boards can have all the coffee breaks in the world, hem and haw, delay, procrastinate, and obfuscate. They will not accomplish anything until they address the causes, which stem from rejection of the efficacious Word.

Meanwhile, the brain-washed followers equate criticism of their apostate leaders with blasphemy, a term used only when God is attacked. And I quote:

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Your Amnesty International Spokeswoman":

Blasphemy! This blog practices blasphemy. WELS pastors and leaders do not suffer from mental disorders. You do.