Tuesday, January 2, 2018

The Failure of ELCA Lutheran Seminaries Should Raise Many Questions in the UniSynod

 Cho was especially successful in obtaining a prison cell
for himself and his son.


I spent a long time unraveling the history of Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, ELCA. They ended up with a total of 91 MDiv students this year!

ELCA has lost 2/3rds of their seminary enrollment since starting, which explains why three seminaries (Southern, Pacific, Trinity) are "thrilled and excited" about becoming departments of a college - and why Luther is "thrilled and excited" about selling off land.

The ELS-LCMS-WELS seminaries have the same retail shrinkage problem. The leaders treat new ministers like dirt, so why would anyone send sons to seminary, daughters into servitude for the faculty's fat salaries?

 A violent storm hit the ELCA convention church in 2009,
not unlike the storm that knocked out the lights when the pope was declared infallible.

We can see that the ultra-radicals took over ELCA after the 2009 convention vote, when the storm knocked over the cross at the church where they feigned worship. Even the liberal bishops were offended so they that they left the ELCA they helped to establish.

Most readers have no idea about the total domination of the ultra- Left in ELCA. Those who were demanding power are now the seminary faculty members, bishops, and seminary presidents.



Likewise, many do not know how close behind the LCMS, WELS, and ELS are. Thrivent is wrapped around the UniSynod, handing pennies to the congregations and giving them trinkets, offering chunks of money to each sect to control. Harrison admitted to $50-60 million a year total from Thrivent, which buys a lot of management, meddling, and process. A pastor might say, "Don't let me catch you selling cookies in the narthex, because Thrivent already owns our soul."

Doubtless Missouri, WELS, and the ELS have as much excess seminary capacity as ELCA - for all the same reasons: radicalism, mediocre teachers, and Unitarian dogma. Watch for more "thrilled and excited" announcements from St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Mequon, and Mankato.