One absolute tenet of the Wisconsin Sect is - Never criticize Holy Mother WELS. Even the raising of an eyebrow at their crimes, abuse, assaults, and absurdities will elicit cries of Slander! Eighth Commandment! and Shredding the Eighth Commandment! Never do they ask if their hyper responses are false and a clear case of slander.
The farce is that their WELS/ELS Church Growth Stars spent their careers criticizing WELS so they could change it and make it conform to Fuller Seminary and Robert Schuller norms. They took synod funds to start Church and Change, which ran purely on the elixirs of criticism, bait, and switch.
They were not alone, because the future ELCA components (LCA/LCA) and LCMS pursued the same goals in the same way. The apostate brothers locked armed, protected one another, and marched their sects into unprecedented shrinkage. They are conjoined quadruplets, fused at the wallet. Separating them from Thrivent would be foolish and dangerous. They might have to try the Means of Grace instead of gimmicks, fads, and marketing.
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| Farce-trap: "the official teachings of the Missouri Synod are a treasure." |
Missouri is always virtue-signaling their strength and fidelity. Is the1932 Brief Statement a treasure - the one which repudiates Justification by Faith while citing Romans 4?
As a veteran of many mainline institutions, I can verify that Missouri and WELS are whole-hog apostate, following ELCA like little wannabees. Mordor students asked me, "Do you realize how much ELCA spends on communications?" I said, "I do and I have been at their conferences. Their biggest national story was a scandal." What troubled me was the WELS seminary students being brain-washed about what they could do with bigness as opposed to the efficacy of the Word.
The farces have continued with each set of ecclesiastical dignitaries reading their script and looking fierce. Farce and fierce go so well together.
At the Peach Mint celebration, the righteous anger is matched by a constant corruption of the facts.
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| Need a call in WELS? Drink more beer. |
