The About Mode - And Paul L. Holmer, Yale

Paul L. Holmer's lectures were branded into our minds, because he had so much to say in few words.

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One of Holmer's enduring statements about intellectual life was the 50-year cycle of the About Mode. Someone has a new, creative idea and everyone copies it for 50 years before they wear it out. The minor figures live and prosper in the About Mode. They have no ideas of their own.

 McGavranistan provided the fields of opium.

I am a bit sad that I learned that bit of genius, because I have seen it repeated in my lifetime. I wondered how ELCA, WELS, Missouri, and the ELS could drool over the same terms and methods derived from Fuller Seminary and its copycats. 

WELS and Missouri were supposed to be stalwarts of Biblical inerrancy, but they said exactly the same things at their conferences as I experienced first-hand at the LCA/ALC evangelism conferences and training. The Peter Drucker tapes I heard in the LCA were verbatim what WELS/LCMS taught.

The non-secret was that WELS/LCMS leaders were not only trained at Fuller and Trinity Divinity, but also jointly worked with ELCA, excited together about all they were gaining and tapping from AAL/Lutheran Brotherhood/Thrivent funds. 

The founder of Church Growth, Donald McGavran, was a pro-abortion liberal Disciples of Christ missionary. His salesmen C. Peter Wagner and Win Arn were unflagging cheerleaders for the dull, verbose McGavran.

 We never had transvestite church picnics in the LCA, but that is how WELS picks conference speakers.

All those who followed, adored, and praised McGavran, Wagner, and Arn were perpetually in the About Mode. 

The late Waldo Werning, D.D. (honorary) went nuts when I challenged his denial that he ever went to Fuller Seminary. I read that fact from my Day-Timer. Likewise, the WELS Stooges - Bivens, Valleskey, Kelm, Olson, etc etc - denied it too.

Hunter got degrees from LSTC - ELCA and P!U! Fuller. That made him an expert for the LCMS and WELS.

The About Mode is the curse of Calvinism, the font of every modern heresy. The Calvinists do not accept that the Holy Spirit is always at work in the Word and never apart from the Word. They consider the Word of God a dead letter unless they make it reasonable, germane, and attractive. In other words, Rationalism is style of interpretation and the efficacy of the Word is their enema enemy.

No clever can unite the superficial marketing talk of the Calvinist Church Growth salesmen with the Means of Grace taught in the Scriptures. 

As long as the red lens of Rationalism is over their eyes, they will see and hear Church Growth Principles! in every Word of the Bible, especially when so much is ripped from the Majority or Traditional text of the Greek New Testament.

 And WELS never participated in Church Growth, said Wayne Mueller, CG expert, in the WELS magazine. 

The Church Growth and NIV stooges usually deny being nursed on the Fuller sow's teats, but they hate anyone criticizing Holy Mother Sow. One Larry Otto Olson, WELS, is such a genius that he earned a precious D.Min. in Church Growth - I read his Fuller essay - and was never there! (See the Christian News article penned by another sycophant.)

The only way the True Church can grow is by adhering to the true Scriptures. There is no "about" to change, corrupt, or remove the Word from the Scriptures. The lazy, corpulent, alcoholic ministers need to go back to the Word of God and teach directly from the reliable Scriptures, the Majority Text itself or the King James translation. 

Those leaders and the various mini-popes can see the crash coming. The question is whether they will bail out and repent or be removed from the True Vine (John 15:1ff).