rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Bruce Church on the Synods Dividing and Conquering...":
Likewise, the laity should sound off before they depart from a CG congregation. At my former WELS congregation, a veteran teacher recently had his call terminated after the first semester. Usually, those calls are terminated at the end of the school year. Many of the members are up in arms because this faithful servant was given the heave-ho rather abruptly. My beloved wife commented that most of them will complain but get over it. Unfortunately, she is correct. My response was what they needed to do was to let some leaders know just exactly what they think, then walk away and never come back. The Wisconsin Sect has whipped so many into silence that only a few will have that much needed Luther moment and stand firm.
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Daniel Baker has left a new comment on your post "Speak Up":
Right, Scott. and I'm just a brainwashed, maligning grandstander.
In all seriousness, the case rlschultz describes is currently happening to a teacher I had back in gradeschool (this is his third call since then). He is the principal, but from what I gather that congregation most likely terminates positions based on seniority.
The most disconcerting thing, however, is not that they terminated him, but rather that they notified him right before Christmas. This is the third position at a WELS church in the last decade that has failed him, and they have the gall to notify him over the holidays? They were so eager to let him go that they couldn't wait until after New Years to do the dirty dead? Merry Christmas!
