How the Sects Are Arguing Themselves into Oblivion

 The Wizard of Ooze Himself could fill the Time of Grace with something he made up on his way to the make-up room, without form and void.

 1. We talked for two hours. 2. We both had scribbled up Bibles. 3. She smiled. 4. Here it comes wait for it - "But I will be preaching!"

Pastor Mike, as he fashions himself, does not give sermons but "just talks about Jesus." That was an earlier claim. Like all the spineless who just want to be liked, he is quick to invoke his office when convenient.

The unfortunate effect of such wiggle-waggles is a slow, constant, and deliberate retreat from the basics of the inerrant, revealed, unique revelation of God's will.

 WELS ran out of Germans. LCMS ran out of men.

Mikey was picked, like the boy in the ancient TV ad, because he will taste anything. "Give it to Mikey!" we said for decades.

WELS has been on this slide for a long time. Look at this list:

1. Seminary professor has a dangerous DUI.
2. DP arrested for DUI.
3. Pastor has a drunken meeting with a utility pole.
4. Alcoholic, unrepentant adulterer demands a call.
5. Alcoholic pal pastors treat female staff like dirt.
6. Pastor fired for incompetence and other matters. 
7. Church Growth pastor fired for shrinking his parish by 50%.
8. District officer having affair with member.
9. Pastor teaches Justification by Faith.

The first seven cases were protected, kept in their positions, or moved to better calls. #9 - Fired, illegally, by email, by DP Jon-Boy Buchholz.

 "Ordination? We don't need ordination. We already have pastoral calls."

WELS tries to appeal to people by being non-Lutheran generic Calvinists, but they remain a hateful, hyper-Pietistic cult.

1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

One must start with the absolute truth of the Scriptures and allow that God commands what is good for us. Both are lacking in the carnival and circus denominations, which include the Church of Rome. No one does that better, which is why the apostate Lutherans moan and sob and hope to be taken to the bosom of the Antichrist, pleading that the terms of reconciliation be merciful.

Women like to have men as leaders in the church, lay or clergy, and that increases the involvement and appreciation of women. If the Holy Spirit puts WELS Circuit Pastors in their office, so they are infallible, as the sect argues, can we not give even more credit to Paul for being Spirit-led?

The Spirit moved Paul to forbid women usurping authority from men. How clever to make it about voting or anything else. Usurping is an attitude fueling all kinds of behavior. Women teaching men is the clearest and best example.

Not-voting legalism in one sect (perhaps more hypocritical than WELS) has women at the council meeting sitting in the outer circle whispering to their husbands what they must do. No, women do not vote there, not at all. They just run the show and emasculate the men by this ridiculous set-up. (A relative described this to me, and I tried very hard not to make strange faces as I listened.)

WELS leaders have subordinated themselves to women at Fuller and Willow Creek, where that is THE LAW!

For years, WELS leaders have subordinated themselves to ELCA lady executive pastors before inviting them (thanks Mark Jeske) how to reproduce ELCA ministry in LCMS and WELS. And be like the Jetsons.

Given that God knows us better than we do, I understand the 1 Timothy passage as preventing what happens when men abandon their spiritual leadership. The women take over, and the feminists drive out the feminine, always.

WELS and LCMS have replaced men with women, which makes it far more likely that an influential position will not go to a man when it comes up. That also means a man is less likely to take a role formerly occupied by a woman. I served a call where the LCA men insisted on running the entire Sunday School and teaching the classes, except for the tiny kids.

Not that this is anything to fight over. The enormous budgets and staffs of the synods exist to protect their power, income, benefits, and freebies from Thrivent. Dissolving most of the positions would do no harm and free up many for starting missions. But that is work.

Following 1 Timothy is much better than watering it down to nothing. Women are very active in supporting and helping every aspect of broadcasting the Word - in graphics, audio, missions, etc. In days gone by, women's societies were the prime source for world mission funds. We have seen that at Bethany too.

Jeske just happens to find the ELCA pastors most sympathetic to abortion and the repudiation of the Scriptures. Thrivent uses your money to invite ELCA-LCMS-WELS to learn from their wisdom.