Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Summary of Winter Vacation Meeting - Conference of Pussycats



Now comes Ichabod to summarize the winter vacation experience of the WELS bosses. That will save nenbers  (WELS spelling) the trouble of reading Depitty Doug's report.

1. WELS is stuck with two office buildings instead of one crumbling building. They never got any earnest money for the offer on The Love Shack, so there is no bonus for being bamboozled. Now they have two buildings they will try to sell at once. Be sure to attend the next WELS money management seminar, but try to stifle the laughter.
2. Gifts are lower than budgeted for 2011.
3. Far fewer vicars are available. Does that mean Kudu Don Patterson won't get his annual free vicar while he runs around the country being a bigshot and builds a second campus next door to a WELS mission? They are now looking at quality experiences for the vicar, which would rule out Holy Word.
4. DP Peterman has not accepted the job at MLS yet. How far can he go? Will his conscience allow it?
5. The NNIV translation pow-wow report was misleading. A bug planted in the tiger meat transmitted this summary -


Depitty Doug:

The participants voted the NIV 2011, by a wide margin, over the HCSB, the ESV, and the participants’ own translations (in that order)  as the preferred translation.

The Tiger Meat Bug:
What's true about that quote:  What is being referred to is a tabulation of participants' preferences concerning a number of different translations'  renderings of  sample passages. Some preferred one translation's renderings, others preferred a different translation's rendering, and so on. It might have expressed a preference at the moment.




What's wrong about that quote:  The statement is not true. There was no "vote" taken for a preferred translation among the participants.  There was no paper ballot. There was no show of hands. There was no voice vote.  In fact, at the very end of the gathering, when it was suggested that a vote be taken  to indicate a preference for a particular translation, that suggestion even failed to produce any motion to call for a vote. At that time,  the prevailing sentiment expressed was that no vote should be taken concerning a preferred translation lest such information leak out and be (mis)used outside of the meeting to lobby for something the group never intended it to.

Ichabod reading the tea-leaves:
They are afraid of district discussions and votes, because hostility toward the NNIV is growing rather than receding. And I quote from the Depitty - "The TEC has come to the conclusion that more time is needed to make a decision and would prefer not to have a vote taken at the district conventions."


6. Internet Porn Divorce. Somehow they managed not to mention their PR director facing life in prison and various people going to prison for not reporting his felonies earlier.
7. Elton Stroh - Paralysis.
8. Mark Jeske - Paralysis.
9. Grace in Action - Paralysis.
10. But Techlin and Krohn - Excommunicate! Anathema sit! Anathema sit! Anathema sit!



"Thou shalt continue the ministry of Fuller, Gordon Conwell, Willowcreek, and Trinity Divinity
yea unto the end of the ages. Amen."

1 comments:

Brett Meyer said...

(W)ELS COP enjoyed their time in Puerto Rico while their churches struggle under the burden of Synod CEF induced debt. Their fellowship with the Puerto Rico ELCC and common membership in the CELC is cemented in their common confession of the false man-made gospel of Universal Objective Justification.

"If the sinner doesn’t hear that God has acquitted him, it will be of no benefit to him, and the Holy Spirit cannot create faith in his heart so that he accepts and comforts himself with the free forgiveness of God." Page 4

"But God does not forgive us because we believe. He does not forgive us if we believe. He has forgiven us long time ago when he raised his Son from the death, that is, he has forgiven us long before we began to believe." Page 7

"God has really declared all men righteous in Christ. God has really forgiven all sinners because Christ has paid the guilt of all." Page 8


As if channeling all of the dead RCC Antichrists, the CELC describes faith this way:
"Faith is like the empty hand of a beggar, which receives the gift that someone puts in it." Page 8

Confirming what we already knew, the CELC admits:
"It is correct that it is man himself who believes, and as such faith is a work, which is performed by man." Page 8

http://www.celc.info/home/180010197/180010197/docs/2008JustificationThemeOutreachMessage.pdf?sec_id=180010197

CELC Member churches
http://www.celc.info/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=180030712&sec_id=180010197

NIV2011 is the (W)ELS COP get out of jail free card. It perverts God's Word in order to finally establish their false gospel and save them from crushing guilt and shame that comes from their abuse of Christ's Church and Word.