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| The ELCA 2% control the denomination, much the way Church and Change took control of WELS, and UOJ/CG captured the LCMS. |
http://www.startribune.com/fewer-men-and-women-are-entering-the-seminary/490381681/
The Star Tribune wants my subscription money, but I will only give them some publicity.
The LCA had 3.1 million members, the last I remember. ELCA started by merging the LCA, The ALC, and the Seminex crowd for a total of 5.3 million members and 10,000 congregations. Now they have 3.5 million members and maybe 9,100 congregations. That is a vague figure since they even count remnants of shattered congregations, meeting in coffee shops and Goodwill reception areas as worship centers. Let us hope none use the spare room of a rented house.
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| Headline - "She Is Loose." |
Because I’m telling you what, the Spirit is up to something …Bishops: Amen. Yes, she is.Briner: … if we would just let her out.Bishops: Let her out. Get out of her way.Briner: Open the doors and let her out.Bishops: She’s out! She is loose!
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| ELCA Bishop Briner |
Briner: I see that in all sorts of little ways. As I sit around the table and listen to this, I think, Wow, God, you are up to something.
ELCA cannot get enough people to graduate from their seminaries, even though they ordain men, women, transgender, the entire rainbow coalition - excluding traditional Lutheran men. Before the merger, anyone questioning the harpy agenda of the seminaries was hated out.
I heard them discuss the demographics in 1978, at a national evangelism seminar held in Pennsylvania. That was good training, because everything taught in the LCA was from Fuller, and the same idiot worldly wiseman garbage came up verbatim in WELS. They even did their national Church Growth seminars together, one called the Church Growth Initiative (AAL/LB).
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| Let's do a Book of Concord with ELCA's leading gay activist, the Kolb-Wengert. That's the ticket! |
How delicious, to consider what an utter disaster that CGI program was for ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS. They had other seminars too, where WELS, Missouri, and ELCA leaders pooled their ignorance. One was on large churches, and Martin Marty, who was never really a pastor, filled them with liberal wisdom.
As I pointed out in print - because no one had the guts to say so - Missouri and WELS had to subordinate themselves to the ELCA women clergy who ran various departments.
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| Let's send Larry Olson to Fuller Seminary for a Drive-Buy DMin. WELS will grow like kudzu, I tell ya, like kudzu. |
At Snowbird, another insurance shindig, WELS President Mischke conferred with Herb Chilstrom (ELCA), and Bohlmann (LCMS). The diversity programs in ELCA, LCMS, and WELS came out of Snowbird too.
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| No one appreciates diversity more than WELS Church and Change Your Gender. Cross-dressing is not just for prep, but for college, seminary, and the pastorate. |
As they say, everything is learning, whether it is bad learning (hanging out with bums) or good learning (studying the Word of God). They learned to diversity traditional Christians out of the church, how to drive men out of the seminary. They learned their lessons well, even though the Scriptures teach us to trust the Word of God rather than the wisdom of men.
