 |
| They recognized women's ordination decades ago, working with ELCA. Now they honor gay ordination and marriage, for the same reason. |
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-us-supreme-court-simply-followed.html
Does this sound familiar to SynCon Lutherans? It should:
"The people of First Baptist Church were taught that if they didn’t see something, it didn’t happen. They were taught that unless an allegation could be confirmed by two or more people (Matthew 18) they were not to believe it."
"In general, the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) Church movement abhors scandal and they do everything they can to cover it up. More important than the sin or the victims is the church’s testimony. The church’s testimony must be protected at all costs, even if we ignore a pedophile in our midst."
".....backed into a corner without the option of covering it up or quietly making the “problem” go away. (calling in attorney David Gibbs to “manage” the crisis speaks volumes about depth of the scandal)"
"The bigger the church attendance the more authority you were granted and the more weight your words had."
win them
wet them
work them
waste them
"They know people are “attracted” (the attractional method) to the Church by the pastor, the programs, the building, etc"
---
The first step in healing from an abusive cult is to leave it. Although they drive people away, they want those sheep silent and docile.
The LCMS, WELS, and ELS follow the same practices exposed in the Roman Catholic Church, where priests who are caught in the act are given a transfer to another location. The only effort that stopped this was SNAP, where the victims networked to warn others that a felon was moving to a new diocese. Many lawsuits proved that the Catholic Church had a policy of protecting sex offenders by moving them around.
Secrecy is a great tool in a cult. Everything is a secret in WELS-LCMS-ELS. Asking for information is a crime, and telling? - that is blasphemy that "hurts the face of the church."
Jack Preus referred once to the "WELS KGB." WELS manipulates people by keeping track of everything. They are ready to pounce and accuse whenever synodical secrets might be told. Of course, the facts do not matter. Anything that comes from "The WELS Grapvine" is considered Gospel Truth, so ministers fear the Grapevine - the whispers and the signs of being shunned.
The ELS is a pet project of WELS. No one pays much attention to WELS, so they like having a tiny sect they can bully. The ELS leaders are always WELS kiss-ups. And they all worship the money of Marvin Schwan and Thrivent.
