devoured by Church and Change buddies
(free vicars for Patterson, grant for Doebler, etc).
The triangles leaving the fish's rear end
symbolize Church and Change pooping on the synod
at every opportunity, fouling the water.
The faint-hearted Tendrils paper lavished praise on the fabulous worship services of the Church Shrinkers.
One of my sources described the experience of two WELS members who actually attended the 2007 conference. Here is the summary:
1) Sheer volume of blatant Church Growth.
2) Church Growth being covered with comments like, "Oh yeah, we think Law and Gospel is important, but..."
3) They weren't even good at Church Growth. The services were sloppy, the preaching sucked, the praise bands sucked.
The layman said that you could close your eyes and say "non-denominational" one time fast and you were immediately transported into a magical land of apostasy.
Things may not be good in the WELS, but some congregations have their head on straight and are speaking out against Church Growth.
