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churchmousec (http://churchmousec.wordpress.com/) has left a new comment on your post "WELS Is Using Diaprax - The Process - To Move the ...":
'Unfortunately, the process works well.'
Sadly, it's been worked to a science, raklatt -- to the detriment of all. One of the Devil's best tricks. :/
Thank you, Dr Jackson, for the kind mention. My posts on diaprax, inspired by you and Rogue Lutheran, can be found here:
http://churchmousec.wordpress.com/tag/diaprax/
One of my conservative Christian readers who also has her own socio-political blog, Linda Kimball, has some interesting observations along this line, with regard to wealth redistribution. Please see her comment and my reply (pietists, be warned) here:
http://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/force-and-cruelty-from-pastors-scatters-the-faithful/
Any feedback you might have in response or elucidation would be gratefully received.
Churchmouse
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raklatt (http://raklatt.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "WELS Is Using Diaprax - The Process - To Move the ...":
This is not the first time for this kind of process. Back in the early 1990's, there was published a multi-page booklet for the pastors and/or leaders of congregational groups that was used to sell WELS' new Christian Worship hymnal. I studied the booklet thoroughly in disbelief. Those meetings, one of which I attended back then, were designed as persuasion. The justifications for the terrible texts of the creeds, and the texts and music of the liturgy, and the altered and dropped verses of the hymns, were contrived. The hymnal has been in use for a generation.
Unfortunately, the process works well. Imagine the effort at persuasion that will be needed when the next hymnal is published, if WELS has the money to publish another.
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GJ - If everyone ducks and runs, the process works. I have seen the Process working but also failing in many different settings. For example, when the Lutheran Book of Worship (Liberal Book of Weirdness, conservative compared to WELS' CW) said they would not use "How Great Thou Art," they were flooded with 20,000 letters. I was told to write a letter to headquarters (the only time that ever happened to me). The Lutheran magazine pointed out that 20 letters on the same topic was considered a landslide response. The result was that the LCA/ALC backed down and later bragged that the new hymnal boasted "How Great Thou Art."
When the Methodists were going to print "Strong Mother God" as a hymn in their new masterpiece, the phone lines were so clogged that no one could get a call in or out for quite a few days. They backed down.
When Christian Worship came out, all the WELS pastors bought it - and defended the atrocious, repugnant feminist Creeds - "fully human." I do not know of anyone who rejected Tiefel's effort. The ELS refused to participate, then lied about dropping out. One of the editors of CW was Iver Johnson, who capped his 50 year marriage with an affair with the church sexretary, whom he married.
So the real question is whether the members and pastors fight back or roll over and play dead...again.
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| Looking like the Portrait of Dorian Gray, Lizard Hands says, "Trust me. The NNIV is so simple, the Mequon faculty can understand it." |
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| http://www.roguelutheran.com is another source of good research on Diaprax. |
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Very important to read - from California:
Re: "Diaprax-the Process- was used to move the sheep over the cliff to NNIV." It wasn't the first time diaprax process was" used to move the sheep over a cliff." It has been standard practice for WELS for decades and was used in 1970's to nudge the sheep over the cliff away from the KJV into free fall for any translation other than KJV. At that stage of the game, it wasn't from the KJV cliff to a specific "new and improved translation", but to condition the sheep to the accept whatever final choice was selected for them which turned out in due time to be NIV. By then the sheep were grateful for any translation after some years of confusion and Bible classes comprised of participating in asking one another representing multiple translations: "what does yours say?" more than "thus said the Lord".
Apparently the sheep and shepherds settled down to be content, or at least tolerate the NIV which was only a step less offensive than the NNIV which is alarming the sheep and some shepherds now. Once that herding of the sheep over the cliff where KJV had dwelt for generations, the old NIV is apparently being mourned. But that is how Diaprax works...gradualism as the old saying about boiling the frog goes. The deliberate abandoning of the KJV was the first mistake. Time lines are not necessarily tools for cause and effect, but they can be instructive to trace events and results of transitions. How much peace, joy, and yes growth and well being has been the lot for WELS during the past 40 years? One controversy after another.
Until and unless the sheep understand the process of Diaprax, aka The Dialectical Process, Management by Objectives PPBS by whatever name, they will always be subject to the misleading of the elite doing the planning and programing with the sheep to be facilitated into constant change and predetermined objectives.
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churchmousec (http://churchmousec.wordpress.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Using Process to Force the NNIV on WELS":
'If everyone ducks and runs, the process works.'
Unfortunately, the process is specially designed to make every opponent duck and run. Think of the 2008 US presidential election ...
'Once that herding of the sheep over the cliff where KJV had dwelt for generations, the old NIV is apparently being mourned. But that is how Diaprax works...gradualism as the old saying about boiling the frog goes.'
Yes, that's it in a nutshell. So, not only do we have to bow to socialism but errant theology as well. Errgh.
Churchmouse
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California says:
....I first heard the term "diaprax" years ago in connection with the work of Dean Gotcher, whose lectures and written material exposes what it is, and how it works. I knew the system as being the same as what I and a few others ad encountered and figured out on our own when researching and battling schools, then in WELS. I had the privilege of attending one of Dean Gotcher's lectures in San Francisco Peninsula area some years ago. A google search brings up lots of info and references to him, and his work exposing Diaprax which has engulfed nearly every facet of organized and/or public life, both secular and religious. His work may be useful to any future expose and explanation you suggested you may write in the near future.
DEAN GOTCHER
Institution for Authority Research
Box 233
Herndon, KS 67739
Mr. Dean Gotcher is the founder and director of the Institution for Authority Research. His background is in education and European history and philosophy. His extensive research in the area of education reform has given him exceptional insight into what education reform is all about, who is responsible for the changes, whenthe reforms really started, and most importantly, why our system of education (and our entire nation) is being restructured.
He is internationally known for his research, and is referenced as a source in many articles and books. He is a consultant to business managers, state legislators, school board members, school administrators, teachers, and Bible-based ministers; as well as a sought-after guest on radio talk-shows.
He is the author of the booklets Dialectic and Praxis: Diaprax and the End of the Ages, (Vol 1 and 2) explaining the dialectic process which is the foundation of and justification for Goals 2000, Outcome-Based Education (OBE), School-to-Work (STW), and the Church Growth and Emerging Church Movements. He also explains Total Quality Management (TQM), consensus, the Delphi technique, group dynamics, cognitive dissonance, paradigm shift, and their roles in restructuring society.
Over the past sixteen years he has held over 4000 seminars and/or weekend conferences. He shares in his seminars that the main goal of the process and those promoting it is to destroy any overt position of authority, especially parental authority. As a Christian, he believes the ultimate authority is God and His Word. He shares what God has to say to us today regarding the subject of authority and educating our children.
Questions he will address in his presentation include:
* What are the differences between traditional and transformational ways of thinking?
* How do they relate to OBE, TQM, STW, Goals 2000, Church Growth, and the Emerging Church?
* How do these processes affect the workplace, government, church, or family relations?
* How do these processes destroy faith in God?
Recommendations:
Dean Gotcher is THE expert on the Hegelian dialectic or consensus process at the heart of Total Quality Management and the new global management system. Schools, corporations, community groups, and governments are implementing this manipulative system of teaching, training, monitoring, and manipulating people (derogatively calling them "human resources") around the world.
To avoid compromise and to equip our children, friends, and families to stand firm in God’s truth, we need to understand the goal and strategies of the consensus process. I don’t believe anyone understands its danger better than Dean. And no one is better equipped to help Christians prepare to resist its subtle and overt pressures to conform to the new global beliefs and values and to become ‘group thinkers.’ I recommend that everyone hear God’s warnings and encouragement through this wise and godly man.
(Berit Kjos, author of Brave New Schools; website: crossroad.to)
We have the highest regard for his Christian life style and commitment to ministry. He is known as one of the most knowledgeable researchers in the country on the topic of educational psychology and theology. He refutes the modern worldview with authority and responsible research, as well as a solid biblical foundation.
