Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "WELS District Pope Doug Engelbrecht's "A Clarion C...":
Dr. Jackson -
It sure seems (evident) that this extended “Clarion call" of WELS District President Doug Engelbrecht, from the Northern WELS District, to WELS pastors, is a gut call reaction response to the issues which Ichabod has been continually raising.
I always thought that your Ichabod audience was far and wide, even though the dearth of comments, do not reflect the large numbers of WELS Lutheran pastors who (must) secretly read the informing articles exposing false doctrine, practice and disingenuousness which permeate America's "Christian" world.
Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
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GJ - I never set out to inform everyone. I figured an audience of about 20 or so, based on the decades of clergy shunning, backpedaling, and convenient forgetfulness.
The audience must be widespread. I heard of Martin Luther College (WELS) professors telling entire classes not to read this blog. I can't buy that kind of advertising.
Engelbrecht dealt with his Fox Valley problems by blaming me.
Confidential to Deputy Doug -
Almost everything on Ichabod about your tainted district comes from your tainted district, mostly laity. You should pay more attention to the people you have alienated with such skill and compassion.
Comments are not always something posted on the blog. I hear from FB friends, from instant messaging, emails, and phone calls. News does not come from one person or a group of people all the time - it comes from a constantly changing group. Like the Keystone Kops, the WELS leaders chase one set of suspects, falling all over each other, only to have another set pop up and lead them off in another direction.
The exhausted Keystone Kops have no time or energy to deal with felons working out of the Love Shack, pastors worshiping with false teachers, and the systematic abuse of members.
