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| Scott Barefoot, co-author with Richard Starr - Forgiven! - posed with a shaven but not shriven Matt Harrison. |
WELS loves to control its members and clergy, who seem to enjoy the experience of prison with benefits. But Matt the Fatt Harrison has trumped everyone in disgracing the Reformation.
He promoted via proxies the convention resolution that made discussing synod doctrine and practice an offense worthy of excommunication. That legislation was worded vaguely as addressing an issue not within the scope of that person's office. If the pope had passed that resolution, there would have been no Reformation stemming from Luther.
True, Luther was indeed excommunicated. But that is the other point of the LCMS resolution - its clergy immediately obeyed and no one raised a fuss. All the clergy writers continued to debate trivia, after a deadly silence, fulfilling the Biblical statement that some make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom (Matthew 19:12).
The LCMS clergy will not stand up to Matt the Fatt or Paul McCain the Plagiarist. Thus they earn the rewards of their ovine silence.
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| Mark Schroeder is in charge of protecting the first, second, and third strings of the WELS Church Growth bench. |
SP Schroeder has continued the WELS tradition of rewarding the stupid, the ignorant, the corrupt, and the incompetent. His path out of serving as a high school principal was secured when various people warned Gurgle to leave office or wear stripes. Gurgle went Third World for a year and showed up on Don Patterson's staff. No one has denied that the MLC chapel funds were siphoned off by synod staff, so I cannot confirm that rumor.
Schroeder traveled to the Anything Goes District, just to save Ski's hide and inflict him on a fourth congregation, a fourth district. Patterson helped of course, and rules were broken by the next DP of the Anything Goes District, to accomplish this blessed task.
In short, Schroeder will do anything to protect the right people and to condemn and silence Justification by Faith. Like the novel 1984, unpleasant details and horrible crimes have been erased from the collective memory.
Just as Gurgle silenced Issues in WELS, so Schroeder liquidated The Intrepid Lutherans, the very group he encouraged Steve Spencer to start.
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| Pope John the Malefactor does not have much of an impact on anything. Soon the ELS, CLC (sic), and micro-mini sects will disappear - unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. The ELS will leave behind a tiny, glittering campus built on Marvin Schwan's guilt-offerings. |
These leaders have nothing in common with Martin Luther. They hate and repudiate Luther's Biblical doctrine, which the faithful believe - not from Luther's authority but from the Spirit's. The Bible judges all books and essays, but these clowns offer essays that filter their feminist Bibles to make a mockery of the Gospel.
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| The Lutheran leaders today - no better than Liz Eaton - wipe their feet on the Scriptures and claim they are led by the Spirit. |
