As WELS Intrepid Leader Spencer said about Justification, "That is not a hill I will die on." He seemed to favor the Chief Article over Knapp, Rambach, Stephan, and Walther, but Steve asserted his thraldom and capitulated. He said WELS was very good at controlling people. Another observer would say, "No one is left in WELS but the compromised, the compromising, and the minders."
There are exceptions, but they are scarce as hen's teeth.
Mark Zarling and Frosty Bivens are great examples of Boomers who revolutinized WELS. As WELS Pastor Papenfus admitted to the families he kicked out - for denying the squalid idiocies of Objective Justification - "I never heard of OJ until I got to seminary."
Someone said, "The bubble is about to burst at Martin Luther College." But that fading school is more like a balloon in the garden, snagged by a plant after the summer birthday party, wrinkled and baggy, with just enough air left in it to retain its shape. No one is going to make MLC look bigger, better, or useful.
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| WELS Luther Days spent thousands and attracted dozens. |
The LCMS-WELS Boomers thought they were great, grabbing and keeping power. They used the scalpels of OJ in the right hand and Church Growth in the left hand to gut their synods of any semblance of Lutheran doctrine and worship.
Ancients called this a Pyrric victory, a win so bloody on the winning side that it is really self-defeating.
Watch and listen for their sociological excuses for the schools closing, their membership collapsing.
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| They are harder to cure than shingles, because no one is left to fight them. |
