The Chasm Developed Over 100 Years Ago

 The chasm developed over 100 years ago. Schodde and Lenski participated in writing this classic.

“Such is the contrast between the Bible of the old and the Bible of the new theologies. That there are compromise systems between the two—or at any rate attempts at a compromise — is certainly true; but it is impossible to effect a compromise between systems fundamentally and essentially at variance. This is a case of either — or, Delitzsch was right when he maintained that a “deep chasm” existed between the old and the new theology, and this chasm exists because there is a chasm between the Bible of the old and the Bible of the new theologies. In one word, the Scriptures of the one is the Bible without God; the Scriptures of the other is the Bible of and with God.”

     “The Bible Of The Old And The Bible Of The New Theology.” By Rev. Professor George H. Schodde, Ph. D., Columbus, O. in Loy, ed. The Columbus Theological Magazine. Vol. 18, 1898. LutheranLibrary.org. Schodde earned his PhD at Leipzig and was a parish pastor (Canal Winchester) before teaching at Capital U. in Columbus, Ohio.

Harold Lindsell's The Battle for the Bible was itself a farce, exposing the more radical apostasy at Fuller Seminary. The school began with compromised inerrancy and later, during its Church Growth fever, abandoned inerrancy in a huff.

The first stage of abandoning inerrancy came from the academic pirouette that dazzles the mind - "The Bible is inerrant in doctrine, but not in history or geography." That was the original Fuller Seminary claim when it began about 1947. The slogan conveys the rationalistic idea that God was good on doctrine, but faulty on the history and geography in the Bible. However, in contrast to the mainline seminaries, Fuller was an oasis - or really, a mirage - in the desert of radicals like Bultmann, Tillich, and Barth/Kirschbaum.

In a series of moves, Fuller hired David Hubbard to push the independent seminary to the Left. Next, in 1965, Hubbard hired Donald McGavran to be the Church Growth guru. The partial inerrancy group (Lindsell, etc.) left, and the sincere crackpots took over. Hubbard said they did not have the time or energy to deal with the inerrancy issue. 

 Fuller has a gimmick for our dying denominations. Whee! Get a quickie DMin and get promoted.
Wooo Pig Souie!

The McGavran-Peter Wagner cabal invited the denomination leaders to learn about the wonders of Church Growth. Fuller was no threat to the church leaders. McGavran was a pro-abortion activist and Wagner thought manufactured miracles were the key to success.

Fuller Seminary invited the world mission executives for brain-washing, and the executives got the American missions on the payoff list.

Paul Kelm is one of many dunder-heads who fell for this Calvinistic clap-trap and influenced others. He is the Fort Knox of Church Growth Fool's Gold.

A galaxy of failing stars - Paul Kelm! - Ron Roth! - Robert Hartman!

Olson denied his Fuller status three times, and the Doc crowed. And Wayne Mueller published his famous claim - "There is no Church Growth in WELS."

The LCMS was doing the same thing at Fuller Seminary. Robert Preus promoted a Church Growth DMin program at Fort Wayne, perhaps because WELS/LCMS bragged they had more "graduate students" at Fuller than at their own seminaries. 

The funniest thing about the Fuller follies was that the school's most ardent supporters flipped out when they were exposed as Fuller students -

• David Valleskey, Mordor Seminary President, who admitted he was a Fuller pilgrim to his CLC pal but denied it when convenient. 
• Wayne Mueller, Head of Programs That Were NOT Church Growth
• Larry Olson, DMin - But Not From Fuller
• Frosty Bivens, Mordor Professor, told me and the Midland Circuit he went to Fuller, then called me a liar for saying he did.
• Waldo Werning, a Fuller student who flew into a rage when I caught him lying about it.

This is just a sampling of the dunderheads who accelerated the decline of their own synods - ELCA too - in falling for the super-doper magic of Fuller, which continues to fulminate even now. 

Herman Melville - "the pulpit leads the world." Long ago, Fuller made it clear that anyone questioning the concept of women pastors would be confronted by a disciplinary committee to straighten that parson out. Thus they became a powerful force in shrinking the denominations in the name of growth. Who is behind all this destruction - or rather, its self-destruction?

 Tis funny how DMin sounds like demon!