rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Lutheran Seminary Fraud: Students Are Bankrupting ...":
At least President Schroeder is being honest about the decline in infant baptisms within the WELS. Large families were once the church growth model among the major denominations. There was always some loss of membership when the children became adults. Since the former Syn conference has become missional, it is not surprising that they look to the outside instead from within for their growth. Demographic arguments are always weak when the root of the problem is false doctrine. However, children raised with catechesis and the historic liturgy always can have a gold standard for comparison. The Gen X and Gen Y children of boomers who were unchurched have no reference point. The second rate Lutherans who have become fourth rate Babtists use the same methods as the non-denom tent down the road to attract new members.
