As I understand it, the WELS convention blessed all translations and did not condemn any of them. That would make it easy for President Schroeder to apologize to those who were kicked out of WELS for favoring the KJV.
WELS is rapidly coming around to my position. They are advocating online worship services, and some are actually opening up the Book of Concord.
Some may return to the KJV now, which is what I have used with advantages for decades.
Several people asked me why WELS never had any use for the New KJV, which is favored in the Little Sect on the Prairie. The old NIV was ideal for burying the Means of Grace, and for preparing everyone for the New NIV. Using the New KJV would have implied the original was worth reading.
Silent Voices is one of many feminist projects. Readings from that version during the flag ceremony would have been appropriate.
The fix was in long ago for the New NIV, and Schroeder faded even more as a leader. He supposedly did not like the NNIV, but his public remarks were as mealy-mouthed as they come.
But the final vote has something for the WELSians to use with advantages. Of course the Changer organization will heavily promote the New NIV in the name of "choosing the best one to use," but no one has to buy it. All the boosterism from NPH will not sell a single copy of anything if congregations refuse to buy the material.
Moreover, they can flaunt their use of other translations. Glende and the rest of the Changers are not obliged to use the wretched hymnal or even their own sermons, so why should congregations buy NPH materials that are NIV and NNIV?
But I am making sense again, which is a sin.
