Someone wrote to ask me if I planned to attend the Change or DIE! conference in two weeks. That individual also wanted to know how to find out who was registered.
My advice is this - everyone should attend and take notes, photographing or videotaping as much as possible.
When conservatives gather, the apostates always have minders watching and keeping track. They do not wear MINDER nametags, but they make sure people are punished for having the wrong associations. Sometimes the innocent are simply warned. "This is not good for your career."
I suggested this for the last Church and Chicanery conference. Did anyone go? People asked me to go. That would have been counter-productive. People have to fight their own battles. I am only an information maven and provider.
I showed my disgust for Kelm-Olson-Huebner by not attending their all-synod CG brainwashing seminar, roughly in 1991. Every pastor was expected to go and pay $100 for the dishonor of being there. And all the ovine pastors went to be sheered! And you guys wonder why it is so bad now? How many surrendering withdrawals are necessary before taking a stand?
The bullies are nasty, but they are cowards. If they had an excuse, they would have answered the Intrepids' letter, but they have not. They do not want to be exposed and would love to have their little coven meeting without any witnesses. They would adore have one person show up so they could make up anything they wanted about that orphaned witness. But if 20 show up! They would need all the pastors and some laity to reach 20.
Only 12 pastors have signed on so far.
Managed Information
In the past, synods could manage the information by keeping everything a secret, unless they wanted to trash someone, which they often did.
Pastor Fred Adrian's vicar went to the state prison in Michigan and neighboring pastors did not know it. One said to me, "You know more about my district than I do."
IM, Twitter, FB, email, and blogs have ended the synod monopoly on information. Jeske cannot promote his coven on the Net and expect no one to notice. Likewise, his and Parlow's grants show up on the Net, because foundations have to make their loot distribution public knowledge, according to law.
Jeff Gunn got a grant to run some kind of Welcome Wagon, something surely gleaned from the apostles. "We'll get the move in notices, St. Peter, and invite the kids to our junior gladiator camp. While there, we can introduce them to the Gospel, because they will face gladiators soon enough. It's a felt need."
