John has bailed out of the Bailing Water blog, the third of three to stop working the blog.
Any suggestion that coercion was involved would be a violation of the Eighth Commandment.
No one has stopped the Church and Change website, but President-in-Waiting Wayne Mueller's son is involved that agency of apostasy.
One of the latest dust-ups was over Bailing Water identifying the Kelm/Parlow team plagiarizing Baptist sermons and posting them as their own on the St. Mark's website. Several apologists had these amusing thoughts:
1. Lots of ministers do that. The popularity fallacy.
2. The copied sermons themselves might have been copied from yet another website. Two wrongs make a right - fallacy.
3. Someone had to sit down with Kelm and Parlow and tell them their sin privately, even though Parlow is not known to respond and Kelm is oblivious.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
The WELS Stormtroopers pounce on critics like hobos on a hotdog, unless the critics are making fun of traditional worship and orthodox doctrine. Those critics are just trying to make Holy Mother WELS even more perfect.
It remains to be seen whether WELS has improved under the new SP. It will take a lot more courage than the ministers have shown so far.
I do not fault a layman for giving up. Apostasy has a thousand friends--in many denominations--but the orthodox have to solo.
