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| The smoke and mirrors report - new plans from the dunces who promoted the Church Growth Movement for the last 40 years. |
The LCMS is also in panic mode, and also blaming parents for not having enough babies to make them feel good about their synodical health.
I am focusing on WELS, because I have the most evidence from them, carefully copied into Megatron with the citations, mostly leaked from their own clergy, who chose to remain in hiding.
Summary - WELS jumped into the Fuller Seminary anti-Lutheran Church Growth Movement 40 years ago. The initial leaders were such apostates as Steve Witte, John Lawrenz, Frost Bivens, David Valleskey, Paul Kelm, Robert Hartman, the Wendland clan, Wayne Mueller, and many more. Three WELS Synod Presidents in a row have promoted the Church Growth Movement, its crafts and assaults. The First Vice President of WELS is a Fuller alumnus, trained to be a "consultant" with Kelm and Larry Otto Olson, DMin Fuller.
This WELS congregation lost 50% of its average attendance in five years. How does a parish do that with so much Church Growth genius in the sect?
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| "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our cradle rolls, but in ourselves." James Huebner, First VP. |
WELS materials--like the LCA stuff I saw and the LCMS propaganda--were entirely devoted to Fuller's idiotic Church Growth Movement. The Michigan District of the LCMS named their Evangelism commission "Evangelism and Church Growth." That is either redundant or a contradiction. Beep. You are correct - it is a contradiction. Church Growth is based on marketing, numbers, and sociology. Church Growth is antagonistic toward Evangelism - the Means of Grace, the efficacy of the Word.
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| Yes, they are already ordaining women in WELS. |
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| Kudu Don Patterson was not a Church and Change member, but he attended their "last" conference. |
Universalism--marching under the banner of Universal Objective Justification--is the dogma of Halle Pietism, Karl Barth, Fuller Seminary and W/ELS-LCMS-ELCA. The good news for them is that everyone is forgiven and saved - just tell the rabble that message. Wayne Mueller gave a speech to the WELS Youth conference in Columbus braying that same false doctrine. Wayne Mueller hates to admit it, but he was a champion of Church Growth all along. The Adam-apple did not fall far from that corrupt tree.
God is bringing doom, insolvency, and disaster upon the apostate Lutherans who mock the Reformation by trying to make a few bucks from its 500th anniversary.
The end-game for the mainline denominations--including all the Lutheran sects--is money without members. Many mainline congregations and seminaries are massive monuments of brick, marble, and glass -- well-endowed by the saints of the past -- emptied of students, staffed by incompetent, lazy pretenders as professors. Google through the faculties of the Protestant Left for the zaniest examples: Episcopal, UCC, Yale. Some are truly sickening to read, especially since the professors are being awarded the choice positions, felllowships, research grants, and titles. Foundations and insurance companies fund them, too.
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| The glory has departed. |
