The trouble with political blogging among the Lutherans is their self-imposed limits on freedom of speech. Knowing the boundaries, genuflecting to the unwritten rules, they tiptoe through the tulips of
blogging.
No one ever spoke out against the Ski/Glende debacle in the Anything Goes district meetings of WELS. One couple took vacation time to watch the Intrepids at work at the district meeting. And they witnessed - seeing and hearing nothing amiss. Needless to say, they had trepidations about the self-named Intrepids, who supposedly formed over the issue of plagiarism, double-secret excommunication, and the endless protection of the Ski/Glende tag team.
Once the group gained traction with the NNIV issue and justification by faith, both closely related, the Coven of Predators formed hit squads to eliminate all the Intrepid signers.
Everyone should ponder the comedy of the WELS COP doing nothing about Mark/Avoid Jeske for years while stampeding to get rid of the Intrepid Lutherans' one blog and one conference.
Steve Spencer wanted the name Intrepid, but he was among the first to bail out. Blood is thicker than doctrine in WELS. Classmates - they are blood-brothers for some reason. Spencer imagined that Mark Schroeder and Jon-Boy Buchholz would improve things in WELS. They did - they made Mark Jeske invulnerable and multiplied the TOG disciples and ankle-biters. But Schroeder and Spencer are classmates, so the wand of infallibility has been placed on the predestinated head and shoulders of the SP.
I must have misunderstood the meaning of Intrepid. The secondary meaning must be - "somewhat undaunted for a couple of years, then poof."
I know blogging is a lot of work. I have around 11,500 posts. Even a copy and paste involves some labor. I do not want to imitate the plagiarists like Paul McCain, who post someone else's material verbatim and publish comments thanking the plagiarists for their great work. Instead, I take pains to show people where the material originated, for the sake of honesty and the other publisher's page-views.
Aristotle is quoted as saying, "Courage and endurance are so closely related that one must be the daughter or the mother of the other."
Luther said it better - "Faith makes us bold."
When a pastor's wife asked about dealing with crazies, I suggested, "Be the crazy. Let them deal with you."
I posted for the last time about Church Growth and UOJ - at least 200 times ago. The problems persist. Since the heirs of Bishop Martin Stephan, STD, keep recycling their timeless tosh and shopworn insults, there is no reason to stop publishing.
Someone who opposes clergy alcoholic abuse of women and children must be crazy. Murder and other felonies are public relation problems for a synod, not sins on the conscience of the SP. Once erased and forgotten, it never happened.
The root of this is unbelief. The only explanation for the treatment of Techlin, Rydecki, and many others is unbelief. The WELS leaders, like the LCMS and ELS leaders, are unbelievers. They hate the Gospel and despise Luther. Nothing else explains the widespread abuse, lying, greed and deception.
The "conservative" synods walk hand-in-hoof with ELCA, grabbing for the money while they go down the drain with the more obvious apostates.
To quote Luther again - it is good to be disillusioned by church leaders. It teaches us to trust only in the Word of God.
