Too bad there are not enough feeding stations for the future pastors."
bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "LCMS Seminary Costs":
An offsite post that may have been a reaction to (or at least informed by) the Icha-posts on LCMS seminary costs is here:
Economics in One Lesson -or- My Plan to Save the Seminaries, 15 Feb 2011
http://gottesdienstonline.blogspot.com/2011/02/economics-in-one-lesson-or-my-plan-to.html
These posts are related to the above post:
Don't go to the seminary, 30 Apr 2010
http://gottesdienstonline.blogspot.com/2010/04/dont-go-to-seminary.html
Challenging Article on Seminary Enrollment by Rev. Heath Curtis
February 18th, 2011, by Pastor Tim Rossow
http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=13885
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Icha-posts on the wildly spiraling upward LCMS seminary tuition costs:
Church Growth Seminaries Use Failing Business Model
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2010/12/church-growth-seminaries-use-failing.html
Mercy! - The LCMS Budget Is Corrupt Beyond Belief
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/01/mercy-lcms-budget-is-corrupt-beyond.html
Your LCMS Benevolence Dollars - Not At Work Supporting the Seminaries
http://4ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/01/your-lcms-benevolence-dollars-not-at.html
Maybe Because Bruce Church Told the Truth about Sky-High Tuition and the 600 Empty Parish Lie
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2010/09/maybe-because-bruce-church-told-truth.html
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Someone Thanked Ichabod - Really Bruce Church - For the Coverage on Seminary Tuition Swindles
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2010/11/someone-thanked-ichabod-really-bruce.html
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Here are some Icha-Megatron quotes on the supposed looming pastor shortage:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/02/worship-part-iv-thy-strong-word.html
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GJ - "We need to pay the Nagels and the Scaers of the world to work at theology full time."
Where would we be without David Scaer attacking justification by faith, promoting UOJ and Roman Catholicism?
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Yeah...but....no WELS preps or colleges are going to close, at least in the near future....
ba-ZING !!!!!
That is pretty tentative, that litotes. "No preps are going to close in the near future"?
But soon enough the postage stamp schools of WELS/ELS will consolidate, and the preps?
Here is a question from the Miller Analogies Test, which is an IQ test. I scored well in it, enough to join Mensa.
The question is: 4, 3, 2.
What is the next number?
I imagine 1 is the next number.
WELS had 4 preps, then 3, now 2.
Ba-ZING!
Not even on the radar for the 2011 WELS convention....
BA-ZING !!!!
I assume your MAT score was rather low.
Not on the radar? But there have already been contingency plans made for MLC, and it was discussed in New Ulm when I lived there last century.
Credibility is an issue in WELS. The truth is seldom faced and never told.
The ELS gives itself 20 years to live.
Part of the reason for the LCMS seminaries having so few M Div students, and at the same time a glut of M Div graduates, is a 1989 (21 years ago) LCMS convention resolution said that lay ministers certified by the DP were kosher for life. This broke up many multi-site parishes which would otherwise have supported an ordained pastor with an M. Div or higher degree:
In 2007 the faculties of the seminaries said this practice was against the Augsburg Confession (much less common sense and spiritual sense). The practice is still common and official in the LCMS, however.
Issues Etc had a program on it in Oct 2010, and Steadfast Lutherans posted about that show today, 18 Feb:
More from Pr. Curtis on AC, XIV
February 18th, 2011Post by Todd Wilken
http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=13892
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Lay “Ministers”
Pastor Heath Curtis of Trinity Lutheran-Worden, IL
http://issuesetc.org/2010/10/
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Book of Concord (Triglotta) PDFs here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Concord#Historic_and_Contemporary_English_Versions_of_The_Book_of_Concord_available_online
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