Pan-Lutheran Association of Nonbelievers - PLAN - You May Be a Member

PLAN formed a long time ago, though photos of the leadership are difficult to find. This one includes, starting on the far left, Jack Preus LCMS, Someone, Robert Marshall LCA, and David Preus ALC.

I have grown weary of writing LCMS-WELS-ELCA-CLC-ELS-ETC, so I condensed it to Pan-Lutheran Association of Nonbelievers:

• Their Chief Executive Officer is their Father Below.
• Their post-graduate training academies are Fuller Seminary, Trinity Divinity School, and Willow Creek Community Church.
• Their bank is Thrivent.
• Their future is grim.

Pan-Lutheran can be found in many places on the Internet. Lutherans For Life began and continues as Pan-Lutheran. Supposedly WELS Lutherans For Life bugged out of the original LFL to avoid the stench of working with heretics, but they soon became Christian Resources or something like that, affording a bigger income base for the founder.

WELS was covert Pan-Lutheran for years, working with LCA/ALC while acting as if they were too good for anyone, even the ELS. A WELS pastor almost cried when I told him his Michigan District President sat on the Lutheran World Relief board with ELCA. Before that, Missions guy Norm Berg named his LCA buddies in missions, people I knew. When I wrote that WELS gave to the United Nations, various people demanded my proof, so I gave them page and year from the district brag book. The money went to UNICEF. Of course I had to prove it, because only a liar would say WELS threw money at the United Nations. Anyone who tells the truth about WELS is a liar. WELS response - "That's a lie! And Bivens never went to Fuller, even though he bragged about it!"

The son of the WELS homiletics professor said to the class that they had all kinds of options for training after ordination. He named Fuller, Trinity Divinity, and Willow Creek, as his father became increasingly alarmed. Finally, the homiletics professor said, "What about Mequon's classes?!" The fact that the Church Growth names came trippingly off the Balge tongue made me very suspicious. Every dysfunctional part of WELS was devoted to Fuller dogma, i.e. Jeske's Church and Change.

As I wrote before, three items cinch the accuracy of the name PLAN:

1. The groups agree with ELCA on forgiveness and salvation without faith, Objective Justification. Long ago I had an LCA training tape that denounced Evangelicals for their utter lack of grace. Like WELS - I came to learn - they imagined faith was the opponent of grace.
2. They treat Luther as the denomination's crazy uncle, though they are happy to make a few dollars from his name at anniversaries.
3. They love every Bible (ESV, EHV, NIV, RSV, TEV, Jerome) except their own, the Tyndale-Luther Bible called the King James Version. Their favorite translations obscure or eliminate the Sacraments, drop major elements of the Bible, and accelerate doctrinal indifference.
4. They love every confession of faith, except their own. No need for Calvinists to trash the Book of Concord - PLAN specializes in that art. Have an itch to venerate Mary night and day? - there is a place for you in LCMS-ELCA-ALPB. Is Eastern Orthodoxy the answer to all questions? - that is another tightrope to walk.

Has this all happened by accident? Not at all.