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I vote in the affirmative for "church-sin" to be added to the Icha-Slang Lexicon.
Speaking of "Time of (Dis)Grace," this is interesting (from the WELS COP Page):
"Time of Grace, a media ministry affiliated with WELS, is no longer considered to be a “Recognized Service Organization (RSO)” of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). “RSO” is the designation that the LCMS gives to organizations it considers to be consistent with its aims and can be utilized and supported by LCMS members.
"The LCMS informed Time of Grace of this change in status because its board of directors does not meet the criteria necessary for Recognized Service Organizations. One of those requirements is that a significant number of RSO board members must be members of Missouri Synod congregations.
"Even though it no longer has RSO status, the LCMS still considers Time of Grace to be a useful Gospel-media company that LCMS members and congregations may utilize and support."
This is humorous. The SynCons roll their eyes in disgust at the other SynCons, but still are allowed to work with them. The LCMS should be discouraging its members from supporting such purpose-driven rubbish. This is no different than Thrivent, LWR, and LWF. No, the LCMS is not an LWF member, but they fellowship with LWF members, the ELCK for one.
I recall my days as the "trouble-making" stewardship director at my former parish. Part of my training was learning to jump through the hoops to get Thrivent loot. At the most, it was probably fifteen-hundred dollars per year. When I became educated about Thrivent, I brought up at a council meeting the fact that we were essentially working with ELCA, while always condemning them. The response I received was, "Do you boycott Ford and Chevy for doing bad things?"
This proves that money is the SynCon Sacrament.
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GJ - Lutheran organizations and their relationships are an amusing hobby of mine. I have spent a lot of time reading reports and looking over figures. WELS, Missouri, the Little Sect, and ELCA are all involved in interlocking relationships so memberships as such are meaningless.
All of them are part of the Lutheran World Federation, which overlaps with Lutheran World Relief and other agencies. LWF is a communion of communions, so they are all part of ELCA. The National Council of Churches and World Council of Churches are dear to ELCA plans and budgets, so the communication of attributes shows that WELS, ELS, yea even the micro-mini sects participate in the WCC and NCC.
Thrivent is an even larger umbrella, embracing the United Nations, the Unitarian-Universalist Association, all religions, and heaven only knows what else.
Money is laundered back and forth so the right people can be told that "We are not part of that but we do support it through back channels." The wrong people (who like Ichabod) are told, in horrified tones, "No! We have never been members of that demonic agency."
For instance, a large grant will go from the Marvin Schwan Foundation to the WELS Kingdom Workers. Where does it go from there?
Marvin Schwan - 2011 report to the IRS:
http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2011/363/918/2011-363918630-08aa1579-9.pdf
WELS Kingdom Workers - 2005 report to the IRS:
http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2005/900/115/2005-900115192-02ba3277-9.pdf
According to WELS Kingdom Workers, the individual chapters get their dough and spend it. How do they spend it? That would be an interesting quest.
And they are all working together. Those who cooperate also benefit from the grants. Those who object are frozen out.
