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| The Jeske coalition, aka Twisted Smile, is losing by winning. |
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8633540/Ageing-Church-of-England-will-be-dead-in-20-years.html
9:02PM BST 12 Jul 2011
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The average age of its members is now 61 and by 2020 a “crisis” of “natural wastage” will lead to their numbers falling “through the floor”, the Church’s national assembly was told.
The Church was compared to a company “impeccably” managing itself into failure, during exchanges at the General Synod in York.
The warnings follow an internal report calling for an urgent national recruitment drive to attract more members.
In the past 40 years, the number of adult churchgoers has halved, while the number of children attending regular worship has declined by four fifths.
The Rev Dr Patrick Richmond, a Synod member from Norwich, told the meeting that some projections suggested that the Church would no longer be “functionally extant” in 20 years’ time.
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GJ - We already have the same report from the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, better known as the Little Sect on the Prairie. Their own study shows they will only be a footnote in the history books in a few years.
WELS has trapped itself in the failed tactics of Fuller Seminary, which was bad enough for generic Protestants, but far worse for any group pretending to be Lutheran.
WELS drives away its own and makes itself repulsive to anyone who thinks independently and questions the cult attitude of its leaders. Everyone is waiting for the day when WELS admits its crimes in the pages of FIC and on its dreadfully lawyered-up websty.
As one layman said, "WELS will be apologizing to Rome by 2017, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The Lutherans will be united around ELCA, and ELCA with Rome."
The worst false teachers - like Jon Buchholz, Paul Kelm, and Larry Olson - cannot tolerate anyone stealing their purloined glory. As toadies for Fuller, they expect everyone to be their boot-polishers.
We now know what their version of evangelism is:
WELS is already a dismal failure under Mark Schroeder and his Church and Changers. When they get rid of the Boomers, through exile and burial, the bubble will collapse.
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GJ - We already have the same report from the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, better known as the Little Sect on the Prairie. Their own study shows they will only be a footnote in the history books in a few years.
WELS has trapped itself in the failed tactics of Fuller Seminary, which was bad enough for generic Protestants, but far worse for any group pretending to be Lutheran.
WELS drives away its own and makes itself repulsive to anyone who thinks independently and questions the cult attitude of its leaders. Everyone is waiting for the day when WELS admits its crimes in the pages of FIC and on its dreadfully lawyered-up websty.
As one layman said, "WELS will be apologizing to Rome by 2017, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The Lutherans will be united around ELCA, and ELCA with Rome."
The worst false teachers - like Jon Buchholz, Paul Kelm, and Larry Olson - cannot tolerate anyone stealing their purloined glory. As toadies for Fuller, they expect everyone to be their boot-polishers.
We now know what their version of evangelism is:
- Get rid of the liturgy
- Turn sermons into coaching sessions
- Form an untalented rock band
- Teach that everyone is forgiven and saved without faith.
WELS is already a dismal failure under Mark Schroeder and his Church and Changers. When they get rid of the Boomers, through exile and burial, the bubble will collapse.
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| Abandoned church - probably in Detroit. |
Unlike the ELS and LCMS, the WELS hasn't admitted to the
fact that its membership is graying, and this might lead to
a denominational implosion. Pastors and denominational leaders want
to keep their bloated salary structure. The ELCA wants to keep all
its
seminaries, too. It's similar to how the mayor of Detroit could have
gone
the bankruptcy route 20 years ago, but even fought it until it was
forced
on him. Who wants to work for $100 grand a year under bankruptcy
when
one can make three times that or more? Same with Wagner, CEO of GM.
No bankruptcy for him until he was forced out.
