LI was trying to count up the number of blogs and websites that have dashed themselves upon the rocky shoals and unyielding doctrine of this blog. Here is a partial list:
Time Glende
Two blogs came from Tim Glende, WELS, Fox Valley. Both of them were efforts at slavish copying. Glende first copied the name of my blog by making the title is departed rather than has departed. Strangely, he called himself the real Ichabod although he was a feeble and illiterate copy-cat. He has removed all blog posts several times. He continues to be a Craig Groeschel and Andy Stanley copycat.
Glende's second blog was short-lived. He called it Anonymouse, after my nickname for his nasty but anonymous comments, sent to me almost daily. He slandered various people by name and featured his own awful graphics, scatological and disturbing. One bizarre feature was attacking his fellow WELS members for reading my blog, which he was doing obsessively. He erased all traces of that effort, perhaps after getting some advice from synodical lawyers.
Joe Krohn
Joe Krohn started Luther Rocks to defend the rock and roll ministry of Doebler's Round Rock, Texas mission. He seemed to see the error of UOJ and Church Growth, but returned to the vomit of universal absolution, then erased all his posts for the second time.
Church and Change
Church and Change did not go away, but they erased their odious website. Too much evidence was given away. The WELS ministers who took over the sect in the name of Church Growth are dumber than most false teachers. They wanted to operate in secret while bragging about themselves in public. They did not go away, but they stopped publishing their website and their top-secret list-serve, where members like John Lawrenz, Don Patterson, and Joe Krohn could be easily identified. Confirming denials followed, of course.
Laughable was SP Gurgle's claim, earlier, that Church and Change was gone, dissolved, dead. I asked my gullible informant, "Why is their next conference linked on the WELS websty?" I continued to show this fact on the blog until the link was removed. Their head of technology is a Church and Changer, a devotee of Bill Hybels, Willow Creek. Imagine what a co-inky-dink that was.
Mark Jeske even had direct links from the WELS websty to his gift shop. Why throw the money-changers from the Temple? Link them instead. Jeske is the president and treasurer of WELS and Missouri, thanks to his board membership at Thrivent.
Cyberbrethren
Paul McCain's effort continues, wallowing and bleeding like a harpooned
What is more off-kilter? - McCain in a clergy shirt calling himself a pastor, or McCain in military fatigues, playing the role of a soldier.
UOJity - Their Common Passion
All the efforts above have Universal Objective Justification in common. They are not afraid of me, since I have no clout, no influence. They are afraid of sound doctrine. They are the gangrene, the cancer that needs to be cut out. Below are multiple translations, since the KJV is too difficult for them.
KJV 2 Timothy 2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
NIV 2 Timothy 2:17 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
RSV 2 Timothy 2:17 and their talk will eat its way like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
NKJ 2 Timothy 2:17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,
Not that long ago, WELS college students were angrily shaking their iPads at me for mentioning their gay video, Party in the MLC. I warned them about their crass stupidity, combining their theft of music with plagiarism of a gay video, Party in the Fire Island Pines. Now the stars of the WELS gay video are begging everyone to take down the video they uploaded to YouTube (twice). Now they realize how shameful their actions were, forever floating around the Net and admired on gay blogs.
SP Schroeder and Editor Herman Otten combined forces to beat me up over my review of The Rite of Sodomy, where I pointed out that WELS had a problem with homosexuality and church discipline. Otten front-paged his apology for printing my review of the book, obviously under pressure from Mark Schroeder, guardian of the secrets of WELS. Shortly after, Schroeder's Director of Communications was arrested and convicted for his collection of man-boy rape scenes, hundreds of digital files stored conveniently at The Love Shack.
Eventually I will fade into compost, but the Word of God remains forever. Lutherans leaders should consider how dangerous it is to teach against the Scriptures and to live as though their beloved UOJ gave them a license to violate the Ten Commandments under the banner - "Sin more that grace may abound."
