Doctrinal Pussycats and Sect Pussycats have one thing in common: they are powerless to do anything about false doctrine. Working together, with their mightiest effort, they could not knock the skin off a pudding. That is how weak and helpless they are. But give them another 30 years and a boatload of money and things might change.
That is utter rubbish, of course. The synodical leaders are destroying the laity and the few faithful pastors remaining.
By acting like politicians and bankers, the Lutheran sect leaders are letting the laity be wounded and slaughtered by the wolves. As John Brug brags in his book, The Ministry of the Word (sic), no one in WELS is disciplined for false doctrine. He should know, since The Sausage Factory faculty consists of Shrinker advocates or Shrinker no-see-ums like Brenner.
Mequon, Mankato, St. Louis, and Ft. Wayne train men to buy their books from false teachers, to copy their sermons verbatim, and to abandon the Confessions. Not everyone faces toward Fuller or Willow Creek to bow in adoration. Some are trained to genuflect to Mary and Constantinople.