Your "ba-zing-oo" is a bit premature...not even a hint of MLS closing, and probably never will be as long as there is a large alumni base still in the cadre of called workers.
Although, I am curious as to why they are having such a hard time finding someone to fill the Prez position....
While not as prestigious as Luther Prep (MLS is quite a bit smaller) or MLC, it still seems like it would have quite an attractive quality to someone building their resume.
You said: I find it odd that they would hire someone who did not want to go there.
Are you saying that they hired someone who did NOT want to go there as a President, or they hired someone as President who did NOT want to go there as a student?
Are you saying the current person being called (or that just refused the call) did NOT want to go there as a student?
The way the WELS works is if congregational members, or the parents at a synodical school, rise up against the bad behavior of their pastor or leaders, and they actually press their point and the leader has to go, then that congregation or school is branded with an overly prudish and unruly reputation. Then popular WELS pastors or leaders don't want to take calls to that congregation or school because they figure they can't get away with being bossy, get away with their shenanigans, or get away without doing any evangelism or visitation or whatever pastoral duties they don't like to do. (Recall that the MLS parents rose up against the president who said publicly that teenagers "making out" or "rounding the bases" was no big deal.) So now MLS is being punished and will have to settle for second-best presidents for a while, just as congregations who kick out a pastor will be subjected to a series of loser pastors until they learn their lesson and never kick out a pastor again even if he's as bad as pastors can get.
It's similar to the situation at Northwestern. No one who ever objected to initiation or the drinking made it through college and seminary into the ministry, and the objector was always branded as being unruly, unspiritual, judgmental, puritanical, a teetotaler, etc., and was hounded until he left on his own, or was kicked out.
One can attribute most of this behavior to their their Reformed doctrine and UOJ which short-circuits the Spirit's work of sanctification. If sanctification can be compared to electricity, UOJers run on 9 volts and non-UOJers run on a 120 or 220 volt current.
Yes, I know the strange looks I used to get from people when I said being a teetotaler was a prime source of ridicule...it was pretty hilarious peoples' perception of going away to high school was so off base...
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Your "ba-zing-oo" is a bit premature...not even a hint of MLS closing, and probably never will be as long as there is a large alumni base still in the cadre of called workers.
Although, I am curious as to why they are having such a hard time finding someone to fill the Prez position....
While not as prestigious as Luther Prep (MLS is quite a bit smaller) or MLC, it still seems like it would have quite an attractive quality to someone building their resume.
Is there some curse involved?
Grumps
Ba-zingo is not a synonym for "this school will close next week." You are inferring what I did not imply.
I find it odd that they would hire someone who did not want to go there.
You said: I find it odd that they would hire someone who did not want to go there.
Are you saying that they hired someone who did NOT want to go there as a President, or they hired someone as President who did NOT want to go there as a student?
Are you saying the current person being called (or that just refused the call) did NOT want to go there as a student?
There's a difference, you know...
You are nit-picking. He was hired, but did not accept the job, so obviously he did not want to work there as president.
I believe he went there as a student, but that was not the issue.
It is up to you, how far you want to go, as a previous president said.
Ah, I get it....
The call was extended, but the call was declined...
I did not spell it out in a post, so the fault is mine. I was rushed. It takes time to make all this stuff up.
The way the WELS works is if congregational members, or the parents at a synodical school, rise up against the bad behavior of their pastor or leaders, and they actually press their point and the leader has to go, then that congregation or school is branded with an overly prudish and unruly reputation. Then popular WELS pastors or leaders don't want to take calls to that congregation or school because they figure they can't get away with being bossy, get away with their shenanigans, or get away without doing any evangelism or visitation or whatever pastoral duties they don't like to do. (Recall that the MLS parents rose up against the president who said publicly that teenagers "making out" or "rounding the bases" was no big deal.) So now MLS is being punished and will have to settle for second-best presidents for a while, just as congregations who kick out a pastor will be subjected to a series of loser pastors until they learn their lesson and never kick out a pastor again even if he's as bad as pastors can get.
It's similar to the situation at Northwestern. No one who ever objected to initiation or the drinking made it through college and seminary into the ministry, and the objector was always branded as being unruly, unspiritual, judgmental, puritanical, a teetotaler, etc., and was hounded until he left on his own, or was kicked out.
One can attribute most of this behavior to their their Reformed doctrine and UOJ which short-circuits the Spirit's work of sanctification. If sanctification can be compared to electricity, UOJers run on 9 volts and non-UOJers run on a 120 or 220 volt current.
Yes, I know the strange looks I used to get from people when I said being a teetotaler was a prime source of ridicule...it was pretty hilarious peoples' perception of going away to high school was so off base...
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