The WELS money report was not unexpected.
For decades, the Church and Change Church Shrinkers and Objective Justification salesmen have worked hard to remove all vestiges of Biblical, Lutheran doctrine and practices from WELS.
WELS replaced Gausewitz, slowly, with the Kuske Dick, Jane, and Sally OJ catechism. A doctrinal reversal? No one noticed. Two farmers in Kokomo objected, and WELS kicked them out for quoting JP Meyer, whose idiotic commentary was lovingly re-published by WELS, the same blokes who accepted Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant for publication and then rejected it.
Since shunning is a sacrament in WELS, they used shunning to get rid of students who saw the light in prep, college, or seminary. The sacraments are normally for individual, but the WELS Sacrament of Shunning is aimed at the individual, spouse, children, grandchildren, and friends, so it works like leprosy on the fears of all.
The Marines have a saying, that 10% are incompetent or criminal. The difference in WELS is that those 10% are raised to positions of leadership, protected, promoted, and given enormous egos.
The talkative, intrepid Judas Goats simply pretend to object to WELS so they can deliver the disloyal into the hands of the SP, DPs, and CPs - angry men all.
The result of all this is not going to be the specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely goals they dreamed about in the bars of Milwaukee and New Ulm. Not even the Niagara Falls of money from Schwan the Home-Wrecker could bail out WELS.
Enjoy the show - it can only get worse. I hope all the leaders live to be 100, so they can view the wreckage for themselves. They had their way, but God holds sway.
Best not to go against His Word.
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| The angry men of WELS took over, a long time ago, and look at how much they have accomplished. The sect is broke during a booming economy. |
