Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Extreme Disappointment":
(W)ELS laity need to engage and deal with these issues decisively using Scripture and the Confessions. Public false doctrine and practice requires, mandates, that the correction is public.
Along with this they need to recognize that perverse actions of DP Englebrecht, Glende, Ski are simply an expression of what they are being taught in the (W)ELS elementary schools, MLC and MLS. Note how Glende called back to his professor to confirm his false Methodist teaching. It was the professor who was untouchable and could not be questioned.
A few laity will rightly reach their limit and either fight or simply leave in disgust. Most though will cower in fear, not knowing what to do if they ever left the (W)ELS. They've been taught to be subordinate to the clergy and Synod officials - yes they're told to test the spirits but when they find Scripture rejects the teaching of the Synod they are brought back in line with the same "you're sinning if you don't follow ME, the one God put in charge of YOU"
The Synod officials, Council of Presidents and District Presidents enable all of this to happen and by keeping all of these things out of the public eye they elevate Synod above Christ's Church and the spiritual well-being of the laity in order to advance their careers, ego's, greed and apostasy.
The laity are also at fault for wanting their clergy and Synod officials to be perfect, taking false pride in the supposed perfection of men and human organizations. Enabling the clergy to believe they ought to be perfect and thereby assisting in the false pride of the clergy who don't want to be seen as having erred. To be faithful they would hold Christ above all, gently correcting error with Scripture and the Confessions, welcoming back the repentant into Christ's church and applying the law to the point, as necessary, of excommunicating those who reject Christ and Christian correction, who harden their hearts against the Word - all motivated out of the true Gospel of Christ for their own sakes, their families and all who watch and listen to what is happening from the outside.
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GJ - Another layman, quite active in WELS, phoned me about how disturbing this is. This behavior toward faithful Lutherans in WELS is typical. Although Glende is more thuggish than most bullies in WELS, he follows exactly the same pattern as the rest. DP Englebrecht is a carbon copy of the other Doctrinal Pussycats.
They are only pussycats when asked to do their jobs and teach the doctrine of the Bible. When anyone rubs them the wrong way, out come the claws.
WELS members are paying huge sums of money to be abused.
Where else do people vote for and pay for the abuse?
