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The nastiness exhibited by the Interim President at Concordia, Mequon, LCMS, reminded me of many different circumstances. No, WELS was just like Cario and Wille, the current tag-team for CUW.
Confidential to Cario-Wille-Jeske: we are all interim. That should be scary for them.
I have had many pleasant experiences with leaders who wanted the best for the people working with them. For instance, both online universities have been very good places to work, even though they both went through a tough time when Team Obama did their best to hurt online universities. Suddenly, the rules were changed and everything was tilted toward the established universities which resented the newcomers for being able to recruit universally and locally.
The schools eventually prospered and stayed loyal to those who had been there.
I once worked for a manager who did everything possible to help those in sales in his agency. He even bought valuable leads so agents could get new clients.
But now I see the "conservative" Lutheran leaders bedding down with ELCA - because they are so much alike, more than most people know. And they specialize in nastiness - LCMS, WELS, ELS, CLC (sic), ELDONA, and the micro-minis.
One argument is that these guys and girls want to follow marketing trends and get things done that way. But they hate the most popular Bible, the King James Version, and mock the faith of their dwindling congregations. How is WELS' Party in the MLC different from ELCA?
The leaders are all on the downward slide because they imagine winning and holding a position of power is good and well deserved. However, the Christian Church grows from faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not from clever plans or busy, energetic executive types.
Each generation of "presidents" or "bishops" or "District Presidents" is worse than the previous, because they simply do not know, teach, or believe Biblical doctrine. How can someone discern the difference between ELCA's Universalism and the conservatives' Universal Justification (LCMS, one of many mirages used to avoid Justification by Faith).
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