WELS Christian Worship Much Like ELCA Goodsoil

About 15 years ago, WELS brought out its Christian Worship hymnal, possibly the worst Lutheran hymnal ever printed, thanks to James (Pope at GA) Tiefel.

Those who gasp at the paganism, legalism, and tub-thumping stupidity of Goodsoil should read CW once. Could Holy Mother WELS, virgin pure and immaculate, produce something so dreadful and have all its pastors use it? Yes.

Could WELS produce something so hideous that even the Little Sect on the Prairie held its nose and printed their own? Yes.

Check out these barbarisms:
1. The Creeds were changed to please the feminists, yet Dorothy Sonntag quit and joined ELCA anyway. The Northwestern Lutheran blessed her on her way. The "fully human" reading in the Creed cannot be justified by any literate pastor, but such are in short supply in WELS.
2. Tiefel, also known as Teufel in WELS, changed the liturgy to harmonize with that of the Pietists. Another poke in the eye for traditional Lutherans.
3. Victor Prange said that the hymns were re-written with feminist language.
4. Favorite Fuller Seminary hog-calling songs were added, to appeal to the one or two Evangelicals who join WELS by mistake, thinking they are in a Baptist congregation.
5. The in-crowd got their own hymns printed in the book, showing people once again that "the idiot of the family goes into the ministry." One hymn is about planning, Management by Objective. Really. I am not kidding. I can do that:

O God, we thank You for our MBO
That is the plan that makes us go
We think we really oughta grow
By 10 percent, just make it so. (To Old One Hundreth)

Is it a shock that a clergy adulterer sat on the hymnal commission, divorced his wife, and married his mistress?

"Lord, Lord, did we not produce hymnals. Did we not do signs and wonders and Mission/Vision statements."

If the Creeds, liturgy, and hymns can be changed, so can the Ten Commandments, now billed as the user-friendly Five Suggestions for Effective, Prosperous Living.