Yes, they have worked and planned together since Eaton was elected. |
Scott Barefoot with everyone but Lassie. |
The Synodicals - proudly bearing the banner of Walter and his syphilitic Bishop Stephan - are going the same way as the ELCA seminaries and colleges, the congregations and managers.
James 3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. (NIV, so the Synodicals can understand it.)
Thrivent is clearly steering the synods and other entities down the same path.
Does anyone gain from the Thrivent freebies?
Only the managers gain from the "called" Giving Counselors, who step into a home and have the elderly sign an Irrevocable Charity Remainder Trust. That means Granny and Grampy just signed off a big chunk of their equity and no lawyer can get it back. The counselors have to pass an insurance license, and you can bet it is guided by Thrivent, which almost went bankrupt from their previous insurance problems with Universal Life.
Point not your fingers at ELCA if you are involved with Thrivent, its shenanigans, its crafts and assaults.