Paul Milhouse McCain told me the President of the LCMS had no real power.
One of SP Schroeder's apologists just told me the same thing. I answered, "The bully pulpit has been empty and unused for years."
Synod politics are fun to follow, but they mean little.
What the leaders say or fail to say is all important.
The best description of a investment firm president is also the job description of a synod president today - "His job is to manage public perception."
Have they taught the truth and repudiated error?
No.
No one would know from official pronouncements and the sycophant blogs that false doctrine, anti-Lutheran teaching, has dominated the Lutheran synods for decades.
In the early Christian church, the purpose of the bishop was to teach. The history we still have (since most is lost) refers to centuries of doctrinal debate, leading to the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds.
The bishops of today--whether Doctrinal Pussycats, or SP perception managers--do not oversee their flocks. They do not teach. They do not rebuke with the Word of God, unless they are busy quashing some outbreak of Lutheran doctrine.
