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| If you seek his monument, look around you - at the devastation. |
Matt Harrison has been quite the leader, losing the equivalent of the entire Wisconsin Synod since he became president. The loss of 400,000 members is equal to the entire WELS sect.
If measured by ELS equivalents of 20,000 members each, that would be a loss of 20 Little Sects on the Prairie.
That has taken place while no one has admitted to their antagonism toward Justification by Faith, Creation, Luther, the efficacy of the Word, and old-fashioned work. The Parable of the Seed Growing Secretly is good, but Missouri has placed its confidence in sleep rather than the living Seed of the Word.
On the low church side, they have praise bands, projection screens, snacks in church, and various thread-bare gimmicks.
On the high church side, the graduates long for union with Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy, deluxe vestments, vested pensions, and the church property. The meek shall inherit the earth, but these yokels want the title to the property.
Lyle Schaller promised the LCMS-WELS-ELS that they would benefit from the ELCA merger shedding 600,000 members. Does anyone remember that promise? ELCA lost the equivalent of the entire ALC since 1987, roughly 2 million members, but they did not join the Walther League of Extraordinary Calvinists.
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| Where are the screens, the popcorn machine, and soda dispensers? Get with it - Change or Die! |
