SimpleMan has left a new comment on your post "Intrepid Lutherans: The Case of the Disappearing "...":
I'm not saying that I agree with Curia's conclusion, but I find it interesting that he says objective justification is not an official teaching of the WELS, and yet someone has now been taken off from membership in the WELS because of that very teaching which is not an official teaching.
GJ - Joe Krohn simply began to ask some questions and beg the congregation to study the issue. But he also opposed spending $45,000 on Cornerstone, a LCMS-WELS joint business that violates the code of ethical fund raising.
Rick Techlin sinned by studying the issues with other concerned laity and pastors in his district, asking for a meeting. Dugout Doug Englebrecht fired the circuit pastor who dared to discipline Tim Glende, ducked the carefully arranged meeting, and left a letter blaming this blog for the troubles he created with his incompetence and tolerance of false doctrine and plagiarism.
These jittery, thin-skinned false teachers in WELS say they want to reach out with love but they bludgeon their own members. Shepherds do not beat the sheep. Satan does that.
WELS has tolerated this situation since the 1960s, when the radical foundation for all this was created. Since then the old war horses--the real pastors--have been shoved aside or chased out of the Wisconsin Sect. The pastors and laity have tolerated this debacle, joining in shunning the shunned, so now they must pay the price. God allows false teachers to punish doctrinal laxity. "They flay their disciples to the bone." - Luther
