So California - When Will WELS Try This?

We watched a little of the Hour of Foreclosure, formerly the Hour of Power, with another guest speaker. I read that they are re-runs because they have extended the Left Foot of Fellowship to the whole Schuller clan.

John Maxwell, Drive-buy DMin, Fuller Seminary

Mrs. Ichabod wondered who was speaking. He looked familiar to me. He should have. I heard him live at a business convention - John Maxwell. I read his Wikipedia entry.

He was a minister. I knew that. He still is. And - he got a drive-buy DMin from Fuller Seminary, just like Larry Olson, WELS. Here is a defense of Fuller and Rob Bell - try to read it without gagging.

Maxwell is a life-coach. Now the light dawns. All the life-coach baloney in WELS stems from Maxwell and his buddies. They found a new way to mine the gold. Don Patterson and his odious network are in the life-coaching business.

Luther taught that faithfulness to the Word was success.

Schuller taught that positive thinking, not Biblical fidelity, would bring success. Schuller was not faithful to the Word, not even to his Dutch Calvinist confession, and he has not been successful. He has spread his false doctrine, copied from Norman Vincent Peale, who plagiarized an occultist for The Power of Positive Thinking.

The real pioneer of Church Growth was Peale, not Schuller. Church Growth began with borrowed plagiarism, which explains the Missouri/WELS adventure and its miserable results. And Appleton.

Schuller fired his own son, so I had to find another likely heir
to the Hour of Power.