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| President Jack Preus LCMS, left, brother of Robert; unknown participant; Robert Marshall, LCA President; President Dave Preus, ALC, cousin of the brothers. I met and knew three of these leaders, whose unity efforts were expensive and disastrous. |
From an ALPB pastor:
For most of us my generation (I'm 59, and hence was baptized in the ELC which merged into the ALC in which I was confirmed and ordained, and then merged into the ELCA), we've experienced mergers as dead-ends, with enormous energy, focus, and funds expended on institution with congregations relegated to "funding-sources" while the institution postured as "the church doing ministry."
We also witnessed the capture and control of institutional leadership, especially in the ELCA, by revisionists. As a traditionalist who endured the "long defeat" of 2000s, I give revisionists their due. From the start of the ELCA (and before, going back to the Commission on the New Lutheran Church) into the 1990's the revisionists from the ALC, LCA, and AELC came together, organized, and focused their efforts with much greater political adeptness than the traditionalists.
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GJ - I wrote about this in Liberalism: Its Cause and Cure. I found that - in all denominations - the apostates consolidated money, power, and properties while repudiating traditional Christian doctrine.
The LCMS did not gain anything by participating in unity talks. Their Seminex cast-offs, who accomplished little in Holy Mother Missouri, went to town in the New Lutheran Church - ELCA - and did their best to destroy it with selective quotas.
I tried the LCMS but saw first-hand how weak the DPs were, how devious the "conservative" pastors like Cascione were.
WELS was different! Haha. And the ELS claimed covertly they were far superior to WELS. More ironic humor.
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