Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Mark Schroeder and Praise Band Hootenannies.
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Re: All Eyes On WELS 2013 Convention
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2013, 06:58:58 AM »

I like President Schroeder.  I got to meet him when he visited our parish a few years back (shortly after his election).  Having said that, I disagree that he has "set the WELS counterculture agenda for Lutheranism."  WELS has some very serious issues in precisely the area Pastor Cascione references -- the whole "praise-band hootenanny" thing.  And President Schroeder, while I think a lot of him, has not really done anything to stem that tide at all.  WELS doesn't have the issues the LCMS has in that regard, that is true.  But they are not immune to it, either -- it's there.