Various Kinds of Ecclesiastical Tactics

 Why does WELS have to rent from Carthage College, ELCA?

One reader wrote about the Judas goat tactic, which is widely practiced in WELS, observing, "I have seen this used in other contexts.

Doubtless each tactic is written up and taught covertly to church leaders, although some adopt Satanic methods on their own, with little help from a textbook. Universal Objective Justification leaves people with no compass, no moral guide, no restraint.

Here are some others I have seen used with great success in ecclesiastical situations:

1. Meaningless discussion to defuse the issue - The LCA, ELCA, WELS (NIV), and LCMS (elections) have used this with impunity. Some call it diaprax, the pretension of group participation. The concept is simple: let everyone debate the issue. If some hothead blows up, so much the better. The vote is delayed until much later, when there are no speeches and the motion passes.
2. Studies - hilarious. When a church body announces a study, it means they have already reached critical mass on the topic, with lots of bedbugs taking up their covert positions. The studies are used to advance the topic into the open and make it undebatable. Valleskey went to Fuller Seminary and taught Church Growth for years before "studying" it and pronouncing his personal blessing on it. When I opposed it and showed how anti-Scriptural his fanatasies were, the brave, courageous, confessional WELS pastors fell down and worshiped Valleskey. The brave, courageous, confessional ELS fell into line and attacked LI for what I published.
3. Tearing Our Church Apart! The clergy looting the treasury and destroying the congregations love this approach. When the Committee to Silence Greg Jackson was meeting (CLC sic version, with help from WELS), this was brought up. I had a little speech ready, "Someone sent a letter to Herman Otten about this, and it is none of his business. I would like to know who did, because it only makes things worse. I never wrote him about it." I looked around the room, and everyone looked so guilty. I silenced them a second time when I said, "People call me abrasive, and I am." I pulled out the roughest sandpaper I could buy and asked, "Which side of the sandpaper do you use?" Dead silence.

 ALPB is where the LCMS, WELS, and ELS have already landed. Christ does not change, but synodical doctrine does.

 The new LCMS Dogmatanic is almost as bad as Braaten-Jenson.

The CLC-WELS-ELS-LCMS sectsual harmony with ELCA - on Univesal Objective Justification - proves we are in the era of complete Lutheran apostasy.

There is no universal antidote except studying the Word and being faithful to the Word. The Lutheran institutions own false doctrine - that is why they work together so well. That is also why they are all failing in the same way.

Lyle Schaller observed a long time ago that the easiest church to administer as a pastor is one that is fading away. The work is slight (in the eyes of the pastor) and the treasury is often endowed. Debt is low, though WELS has a clever scheme for getting old church loaded with debt before they fail - as if that is evangelism. "You need a parish hall, a new loan, and a capital funds campaign. No worries. For a very large fee and a percentage of the plate, we will help you step into a new era of growth of joy." The pastor can take a new call, even become a District President, and blame the failure of his scheme on the new pastor. I know too much.

WELS - MLC Day. This is what the sect brags about in posting their own pictures and video.