Joe-
Though I'm sorry for your plight, I'm afraid I'm not hugely sympathetic to your complaints about how you were treated on this blog. I remember reading the post and all the guy said to you is that he didn't consider it your fault for getting excommunicated because you obviously weren't taught the doctrine of justification correctly. You really shouldn't have put those letters between you and your church up on your blog. They didn't make you seem sympathetic at all. Rather, what it looked it is this: your pastor and the DP got that you pretty much were misinterpreting the WELS' position on objective justification.
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| Why didn't Kudu Don Patterson excommunicate Chad White for attending Exponential in Orlando? Because Patterson took him and other WELS staffers. It was a package deal. |
They basically begged you to come in and talk to them so that the correct understanding of the position of the Synod could be explain to you. You got up on your high-horse and arrogantly refused to do so. Bear in mind, I find it highly unlikely that they actually believe you to be a heretic in the substance of the faith. Rather, they excommunicated you for the same reason that the authors of the Formula of Concord rejected Flacius' way of talking about original sin: Certain ways of speaking about the faith tend to lead other people astray by giving them false impressions about different doctrines.
They couldn't have you going around their church and saying that the WELS was heretical because of UOJ (which you oddly seem to believe is universalism based on Jackson's false teaching) and therefore confusing the other members into some sort of Pietistic clap-trap about their faith causing God's verdict of justification. I realize in your mind that you're some sort of great persecuted heroic figure who has stood up for the faith. But I, and pretty much everyone else I know who reads your blog sees it differently. Rather, like Flacius you're guy who wouldn't listen to others when they tried to explain to you that you were using terminology that hurts the proper understanding of the faith. I guess what I would say to you is this: maybe you should start listening to some other voices than those of Jackson and Brett Meyer.
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GJ - "Methinks the lady doth protest too much." Fox Valley, where they excommunicate for asking questions, has to show solidarity with Kudu Don Patterson, who excommunicates (with the blessing of ex-SP Gurgle) for asking questions.
See what The Latin Professor wrote about WELS. Although the clergy were spiteful, vindictive liars in both cases, they did their members a favor by revealing their slavering fangs and raking claws. They are passionate about sharing
