One WELS veteran was correct in stating that his sect will never improve. The same can be said for the Little Sect on the Prairie and the Missouri Synod. ELCA has become the high-church version of the United Church of Christ, where all religions are the same, so Christians can worship with pagans, rejoicing. How little that matters to the Syn Conference ministry partners of ELCA
The micro-mini sects are simply worse versions of the Syn Conference.
Each sect has a program or plan to fix things - or rather - to take everyone's mind away from the real problem. The Lutheran clergy no longer teach the Gospel, justification by faith. Instead they have a program of works, starting with Pietistic cell groups and working downward from there.
Luther's sermons on faith and works make this plain. His Biblical emphasis upon justification by faith means that one cannot find spiritual fruit on a corrupt tree.
KJV Matthew 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Luther's sermons do not try to reform people with the Law. Nor does he dwell on carnal sins. He continually emphasizes the foundational sin of unbelief, relating that to many different aspects of daily life. For instance, fear of economic misfortune comes from lack of faith in God.
One of Luther's insights is the reverse side of the cross. Most people see the cross as a terrible burden to be avoided - and the clergy are especially good at that. The cross is not poverty or disease, but the difficulties associated with teaching and believing the Word of God. The reverse side of the cross is God not allowing unbelievers to see the spiritual fruit of believers. The unbelievers spend all their time and energy mocking every fault and problem they find in believers. Although they are a great burden, especially within the extended family, the greatest burden is their own, since they blind themselves to the fruit of the Gospel they despise so fervently.
Once that makes sense, District Pope behavior is the necessary outcome of their apostasy. Innocent clergy and laity think that citing Scripture and the Confessions will improve and explain matters for synodical leaders. That infuriates the DPs, motivating them to get revenge. Their response is typical. DPs viciously slander whoever dares to challenge them with the Word of God, which is bitter in their mouths. The primates get even - 50 times over, just to prove to the rest that no one questions the District Pope.
Synodical popes and professors are the result of the same process, so they are no different.
When I bring up doctrinal issues, the rebuttal is, "You are a bad person." Great efforts have been made to make sure that I am silenced in all Lutheran media. Trinity Lutheran Church in Bridgeton, Missouri, where I had been a member, told Christian News that they would not give Otten a dime while he published my articles. I was writing that justification without faith was wrong, and that was unforgivable in their eyes.
The so-called conservative Lutherans on the Net have given themselves hernias denouncing our little congregation, which they should commend - for broadcasting free books, free sermons, free worship services, free collections of quotations, and free research.
VP Don Patterson refused to discuss justification and the WELS-LCMS Tetzels from Cornerstone with Joe and Lisa Krohn. He was eager to promote UOJ when they were out of the way.
Patterson's cronies silenced Joe at the voters meeting, where he wanted to ask one question. The Doctrinal Pussycat, long regarded as a "conservative" leader in WELS, refused to answer a simple question.
As so many have seen, the same process has been used with the Krohn family, Rick Techlin, the Kokomo families, and California's family. WELS kicked out a whole group of clergy and congregations during the Protest'ant era, including their own seminary president.
Has anyone else wondered why WELS and Missouri are hotter than Georgia asphalt for cell groups? The Lutheran Pharisees want to impose their law on everyone, and cell groups are good for accomplishing that goal. The clergy say, "We must have cell groups for spiritual growth." They never mention the Means of Grace, except as an afterthought.
The cell groups must use certain materials, which brainwash the victims into accepting a heavy burden of remedies. The phony acceptance and love of the cell group maneuvers people into conforming with the master plan. If people get in the way, a truly successful pastor will eliminate the obstacles. Eventually he will have a gaggle of yes-men to act as his Rothweilers at all meetings. In return, he turns a blind eye to anything they do, because they were born forgiven. See Marvin Schwan as a well known example of this covenant for covens.
The Syn Conference is riddled with evil because the organization is the evil fruit of a corrupt tree. The WELS Church and Changers saw they could attack the Gospel behind the shield of the Wauwatosa Enthusiasm, the Caliban of Lutherdom. In Missouri, the conservative Pietists are organized against the liberal Pietists, never dreaming they are branches of the same corrupt tree of Enthusiasm.
KJV Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed [GJ - literally damned to Hell].
Ironies abound. In the name of the Gospel, all Lutherans [ELCA, WELS, LCMS, ELS, Micro-Minis] teach Universalism. Everyone, they imagine, is already forgiven. In their delusion they call Enthusiasm "grace." Amazing. They burn with indignation against anyone who prefers Luther and the Apostle Paul to their Moses, George De Benneville, and Walther. They respond to the real Luther-ans [dash used for emphasis] by excommunicating them.
The Lutheran leaders of today remind me of the "blessed" Council of Trent, where the theologians stomped their shepherd's crooks and chanted, "Anathema sit! Anathema sit! Anathema sit!" That was their response to justification by faith.
