When Will the Synod Leaders Be Accountable?

Why are they still in office?

What do they have in common, besides holding their trotters out for more insurance money? 

1. All four agree about universal absolution apart from the Gospel Word. Objective Justification.
2. All four loathe Luther and his Biblical doctrine. They falsely portray their Universalism as the Chief Article of Christianity. No, OJ taint the Chief Article, boys and girls.
3. All four worship and study together at Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek, and Andy Stanley's manly convocations.
4. All four have new hymnals, "aimed at the young," but driving everyone away.
5. All four are shrinking faster than Joe Biden's short term memory.

The bishops control the divine call and funding, so they control convention delegates and the vote. 

Once upon a time I had the owner's manual for being an LCA bishop in my hands, in the dusty archives of the LSTC library. One sentence stood out, aimed at new bishops - "Be a hammer, not an anvil." 

Yes, those genius management methods have brought the mainline denominations into death's dark shadows. And good riddance. The Wuhan Flu gave ministers permission to do even less work, so they played video games instead of reading the First Amendment. Freedom  of worship cannot be canceled by governors, health directors, or any other force.

Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Mealy-mouthed ministers had a great chance to do nothing - and they took it. They subjugated themselves to the secular powers undermining the free exercise of religion.

WELS loyalist Father Steve Spencer often said, "The only way to fix WELS is to completely tear it down." That is why he worked with classmate Mark Schroeder to identify dissenters in WELS and stab them in the back. 

The last laugh is on them, as they look upon the devastation they have caused, instead of trusting the Word.

Just as the case with higher education, church people are going to look around and say, "Why do we need all these expensive buildings when so little happens inside and so much can be done online?"

• Most congregations do next to nothing with actual outreach (blog, newsletter, saved online worship and classes).
• Many ministers are happy to use the work of others and save themselves time.
• WELS leaders have been known to use the same "devotions," so someone going to two different meetings with two different synodocats would hear the same "devotion" verbatim, many with strong DNA strands of Fuller.

Lemme see - ELCA, women's ordination, LCMS, WELS, and Thrivent - the glories of fellowship together! We are standing on cusp of the Promised Land, the New Age.

Psalm 133 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;