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| How cold is WELS? This cold. |
Two people wrote the same day about WELS' abusive behavior. They thanked me for the articles, doubtless because no one else gives a hoot. Every so often someone will be supportive within the sect, but it remains a cardinal sin to say WELS is less than perfect.
This behavior is the result of taking over JP Meyer's idiotic dogma, where he managed to be even worse than Stephan and Walther. WELS is a culture of anti-faith, more concentrated and fermented than Missouri.
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| How can anyone read this twaddle without laughing out loud? WELS has no Gospel, therefore, no Gospel fruits. |
WELS is very legalistic about petty things, like the necessity of accepting initiation abuse without complaint. Naturally, it is a grave sin to read this blog.
But with the legalism over trivia comes Antinomianism to the greatest degree. Trafficking in child porn is instantly forgiven (to make WELS look better). Teacher/clergy adultery is rampant, and so is alcoholism. Two loyalists admitted to me that Martin Luther College summer school was Peyton Place on Viagra.
Check out at 48.05, where Mirthless Mark speaks in awe about GA, the "walk toward the lagoon," which was full of raw sewage. "Bless the sewage. Love the pain." That sounds like Opus Dei, the abusive cult in Roman Catholicism.
The victims of abuse are victimized twice over, because WELS wolves make sure everyone makes them (the victims) the problem. If a young single woman complains about the behavior of a married pastor on the staff, she has SINNED! and is hated out of WELS. He is not pushed out, though he had a previous episode.
If a pastor was kicked out for adultery, that part of his resume is conveniently omitted entirely when he slithers back in. What call?
I know about this first-hand, and the CLC (sic) is no better, even worse. The funny part is the massive effort to write hate-mail, almost always anonymously. One of our members was startled by the venom in the messages.
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| WELS wounds and damages its members, teachers, and clergy. Run for the doors. |
After years of that, they simply stopped writing. They have my email at the top of the blog. I get offers from Africa daily, usually for $5 million left in my name! These pious clowns from WELS believe it is a sin to tell the truth with my name attached, but they are being angels as they engage in whisper campaigns where their only proof is "I heard that..."
Here are a few of the claims that have come back to me:
- "Nobody reads the blog." Answer - 6.5 million views.
- "He has no credibility." Answer - WELS members and pastors thank me - and they provide inside information.
- "He knows no Greek - it is pathetic." I am teaching my second Greek class online. I taught the entire Gospel of John in Greek.
- "He does not know Hebrew." Answer - The first edition of Thy Strong Word included Hebrew and Greek exegesis.
- "He was kicked out of WELS for false doctrine." Answer - I resigned from WELS because they endorsed the false doctrine of Church Growth and rewarded clergy adultery. WELS sold two of my books at one time: Liberalism and Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant.
The Church Growthers are real haters, and so are the UOJ salesmen. They are two sides of the same bad coin.
Once upon a time WELS had the original Gausewitz Catechism in English and German. They have been engulfed and captured by the apostates. It is a raging anaerobic infection.
