"As a WLHS alumnus and conference delegate, I have found this all to be a real head-scratcher. I encourage you to read this and the relevant attached data and try to draw your own conclusions.
Having done so, I pose the following: If female suffrage and leadership are to be allowed in our Synod, why not go through the proper channels and rescind our existing doctrinal statements at Synod Convention?"
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"It seems clear that WLHS is intent on deviating from long held doctrine and practice in the Wisconsin Synod. If I understand right, the "headship committee" is selected by the delegates which theoretically could be all female, and thus the headship committee is more for show than anything."
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WELS always creates clouds of fog to obscure the Scriptures, and dealing with the fog only makes it worse, because of the sect's dishonesty.
The two adverbs in KJV 1 Timothy 2:12 are clear.
"12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
The issues are teaching men and taking away authority from men.
Decades ago, the WELS managers (not leaders - they couldn't lead if they wanted to) surrendered to the feminists at Fuller Seminary. Any man attending that joke of a school had to silence himself about feminist demands. If not, those men would be counseled by a team of witches who would set them straight (implied) and kick them out (definitely). Most, if not all of the managers attended Fuller, loved it, and lied about going there. The world missionaries also went there.
One WELS pastor said, "We have to use Fuller, because they have all the statistics for world missions!"
Moreover, the managers have been working with ELCA for decades, following the same corrupt principles, kissing up to Thrivent, of course.
WELS sent pastors to Willow Creek Community Church, where the senior pastor refused to use Bibles that were NOT feminist and chased women around the altar until he was finally caught and ejected. I recall one Ohio pastor just glowing about what he learned and stated, "We are following what Willow Creek had to say, that the bulletins should say visitors do not have to give during the offering." Free tuition to go! For some reason they never asked me to go to Willow Creek for free. When a pastor's son criticized Willow Creek at the late Northwestern College, the professor said, "Have you been there?!" The answer was "Yes." Change of subject.
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| Yay Fuller! Yay Willow Creek! Yay Thrivent! Yay ELCA! |
Question for the exegetic genius groups in the WELS and LCMS sects - did they vote in the Apostolic Age? Maybe I am distorted by reading ancient history and studying Koine Greek - ongoing, not past tense. 1 Timothy 2:12 perfectly describes the LCMS during its Pentecostal illness. LCMS and WELS are masters or rather mistresses of avoiding the real issues.
