bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "The Surrendering Lutherans Need To Study the Large...":
The 8 and 18 Switch is used both ways. The Steadfast Lutherans bloggers use it as an excuse to save face as they capitulate to synodical officials.
What's really going on is they believe that God has already forgiven all the parties involved with Schauer, and has forgiven Schauer himself, so there really is never an appropriate occasion to post anything about the shortcomings of the synod or its workers without seeming way more vindictive than the God they paint for themselves. The news for these UOJ antinomians is that God doesn't ooze grace as indiscriminately as they think, and He'd never sweep such sins under the rug as quickly as the synod hierarchy does, especially not before the courts have finished dealing with it.
The synod leadership knows that the status quo never changes in the LCMS without the laity being informed about problems, so they are determined to protect the status quo by keeping the laity largely uninformed about problems. It's like the exorbitant cost of seminary tuition. They even said it themselves--no seminary will close without the synod coming to a consensus about it, so they purposely shut down discussion of the topic so the synod could never come to any consensus about it.
I just hope they don't complain to God about their shrinking synod when they spend all their money hiring and small army of antinomian professors. The synod that grows is the one which doesn't make a mockery of the BoC by tacking on false doctrine like UOJ or theistic evolution, and the one that makes the best use of its resources.
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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Matthew 18 Is Always Handy":
Very insightful critique Bruce.
Thanks for this analysis.
LPC
