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SP Mark Schroeder WELS announced more success for the Church Growth Movement, leased from Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek, and Trinity Divinity. The annual costs are...none of your business.
WELS is losing 8,000 per year, but that is only at half the rate of the Missouri Synod. Imagine what might have happened without all those cheezey programs, insufferably campaigns, and useless Church Growth experts - like Paul Calvin Kelm, James Coffee Bar Huebner, and "Call me Dr. Olson," Larry the D.Min. from Fuller.
Total enrollment at Mordor is half what it was in 1987, when I was there. Of course they inflate their graduates total by adding their PLI fake seminary run by CG wannabees. The last time Mordor enrollment was so low - 1963.
No to worry, WELS is closing parishes so fast that the need is slight and the only panic is about an excess of MDivs with enormous debts and a career length shorter than a fruit fly's.
The LCMS is no different. The executives of both synods will not admit to how much they have skimmed from the offerings to pad their salaries, benefits, luxuries, and deluxe "working" vacations in the Carib. Executive salaries and Taj Mahal office buildings are overhead. In go the offerings - out goes - more once-in-a-lifetime giving opportunities.
Overhead consumes the synods because the executives make sure they get the most. The students at the colleges and seminaries can borrow huge sums that they can never really pay back, and those obscene amounts float the schools.
