I am happy to lay a lot of responsibility at the feet of clergy, especially the paid drones of the synodical structures.
But the laity deserve plenty of blame, too. They have let all these things happen, step by step, without any real, persistent objections.
Moreover when destructive laity do their best to undermine a faithful pastor, his or her fellow members do nothing to stop the corrosive effect upon the congregation.
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The laity will always sob and mourn when their adulterous pastor is caught and kicked out. As one layman said about a promiscuous minister in downtown Moline, "Everyone liked him."
WELS has all their members paper-trained to spy for the synod and carry water for the false teachers. I have heard interesting stories about a relatively independent pastor whose meetings are immediately faxed to the synod officials - who "never know anything" about everything else. And what they do know, they forget five minutes later, if it proves useful for them.
Every single person is charged with maintaining fidelity to the Word of God - not veneration of the Holy Mother Sect. Many become atheists, step by step, as they pardon and excuse the indefensible, until they hate the Gospel and use their position to undermine faith.
