Breaking News: More Chicago-Style Thuggery from WELS

I'd say that a majority of us at the Western WI district convention voted to delay the vote until next year's synod convention (we will have another full convention in April/May in place of the usual Pastor-Teacher conference to tell our delegates how to vote). Not all the reports were in and important questions as to the future of the NIV were unable to be answered, such as:

Is Biblica/Zondervan planning a 50th anniversary revision that would put us right back to this same discussion in 10-15 years?

Here is the kicker - the actual votes weren't counted/results weren't announced at convention. They are waiting until after all districts meet, and then counting all the votes together (popular vote) as opposed
to X districts voted this way, Y voted that way, and Z voted the other way. So we may well see a late district convention stacked with major NIV2011 supporters that stuff the ballot box and throw the vote.

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solafide (http://solafide.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Breaking News: More Chicago-Style Thuggery from WE...":

The most disturbing part for me is that Dr. Moo has stated that in 7 or 8 years they'll be looking at doing more with the text. This would put it on par to release a 50th anniversary revision, which is also about the same time that WELS will start work on a new catechism and hymnal.

This is what frightens me the most. I wish those ballots had been counted and at it was by district not popular vote. This means districts packed full of pastors, teachers, and lay delegates (like SEW) will greatly outnumber the other districts. 

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GJ - Sola, that is how Walther got Pieper placed at St. Louis as his clone. He had the national convention vote Pieper in (obviously approved by the Great Kidnapper), not the districts. He only had one convention to control that way. Fuerbringer is the one who pointed out the way Pieper was elected, and he did not approve of the process.