Michael Schottey has left a new comment on your post "Church and Change - Still on WELS Website":
The official word as it was passed down to me is that A decision was made in the prior administration that gave "sponsorship" on the WELS website to publicize events for parasynodical organizations.
This is no longer the case in the current administration. However the proposal is that anything there currently was "grandfathered" so the new officials did not have to break the word of the old.
We shall see if the next convention is posted on the WELS.net and I may eat my words.
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GJ - My, my. The excuses grow in complexity.
False doctrine has been grandfathered.
St. Augustine said that doctrinal error has three stages:
1. You must tolerate us, for we are a persecuted minority.
2. Equal footing with sound doctrine. Hence, Mequon now has a "balanced" faculty. Brenner was added to "balance" the Vallesky Cell Group.
3. False doctrine persecutes those who prefer sound doctrine. This CGM is now so old in WELS that it is grandfatherly.
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