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How Much Will It Take To Get You into this Old New Hymnal?

WELS doubles-down on paid Presbyterian bar music, and on their pseudo-liturgy.

Dr. John Meyer, Martin Luther College, in a paper entitled "Things that Don't Change, Stay the Same":

"As the WELS declines, it is doubling down on a new hymnal with even more emphasis on liturgical worship at the same time that society is becoming less churched and more informal. Even though some congregations that have moved away from liturgy have found success connecting the gospel to people with non-Lutheran backgrounds, people within the Lutheran culture suggest that if people would only change and like traditional liturgy they would love it. Instead of seeking to connect with people where they are, Lutheran leaders seek to change people by training them to love the liturgy....People won't do it. They will simply move on to something that makes sense to them....Deep change is difficult. It requires admitting one is wrong....It is actually easier to persist in disfunction (sic) rather than adopt successful new practices, even if it is clear that failure to do so is harmful to oneself and the organization."

John Meyer. Director of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education

Office: WCC 115

PhD, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Educational Policy and Administration
MS University of Wisconsin, Madison: Curriculum & Instruction
BS Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulm MN: Education

Dr. John Meyer is the director of the graduate studies program at MLC. He also teaches Foundations of Educational Research to graduate students as a co-instructor, and Curriculum and Instruction in Elementary and Middle Schools to undergraduates.

 They work overtime to keep the door windows clean.

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GJ - How cruel, to quote these leaders of apostasy. Meanwhile, our little group continues in the historic liturgy and creeds, the 75 year-old The Lutheran Hymnal, and the KJV. The KJV and its younger cousins are the only Bibles exemplifying inerrancy, the Means of Grace, and Justification by Faith.

The aw-ficial Bible of the WELS is the NIV, which repudiates inerrancy, plays games with the text, rejects the Means of Grace, and teaches Justification of the World.

Moving Ahead with CFW Walther

The Missouri Synod, under the dark despotic reign of Matt the Fatt, did far more to recognize the anniversary of Walther's birth than they did to honor the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Concordia Publishing House did their best to dishonor the Reformation, by selling such gee-gaws as Reformation dog collars, dog shirts, and Here I Stand socks.

Tired of the fables, I am putting together the truth of CFW Walther's dogma and personality.

Someone is already miffed at the draft material I am posting. "How could someone like Stephan be born a Pietist?" The answer is - Stephan's Moravian Pietism, his training in Pietism, his study at Halle, the Mothership of Pietism, and his call to a Moravian Pietist congregation that owed its existence to Count Zinzendorf, the promoter of Moravian Pietism. Stephan's symbol was a hat, and that most likely reflects Z's Herrnhut, but I will let that go for now.

Biographical efforts are extremely complicated. It is fun to research the topic but difficult to explain the results. As one first-time book writer said to me, in frustration, "Every idea must be defined and the definitions need defining." I welcomed her to the club.

The big picture, as Mischke liked to say (so creative), is Walther the Pietist in Pietist circles under the guidance of one Pietist master for 10 years, then under Pietist Stephan until CFW kidnapped him and stole all the bishop owned.

 This is an excellent book, but I had to photoshop the cover to keep the story honest.

Calling Walther the Second Luther is cunning but utterly false. So the problem is getting the material assembled so people can have a look at the documented truth.  If successful, people will do more reading on their own and not imagine, as the LutherQueasies say, that "Walther answers all questions."

Walther should be treated according to the facts rather than the mendacious PR releases of the Missouri Synod.