Synodical Conference - The Three Stooges - Not Very Funny

Matt the Fatt, Mirthless Mark, and Glenn the Unmovable

Much like the Three Stooges, the three presidents of the Olde Synodical Conference have their dignified look and their entertainment personality.

This troubling split comes from their rejection of Lutheran Biblical doctrine and their pose as serious, studious, pastors. In fact, the two larger small denominational heads have had almost no parish experience at all. 

Matt the Fatt raised money and bragged that his former fund-raising operation floated the LCMS budget, until he became president and closed the agency down. Mirthless Mark served a Florida parish until he wrote an essay mildly questioning the Church Growth Movement. He was immediately upgraded to high school principal at the school which merged into Luther Prep in Watertown, Wisconsin. Nothing was done to stop the hazing, which is encouraged by staff at the two high schools, the merged college, and Mordor itself - in Mequon. Needless to say, cross-dressing is a major theme of WELS schools and preceded ELCA's obsessions by decades. Pueri pueri erunt, but do they have to dress like girls?

The Little Sect on the Prairie was going to elevate Glenn the Unmovable to the rank of President, but a clique made sure he was bypassed in favor of WELS loyalist Moldstad. Kincaid Smith passed this gossip to me via a mutual friend, which I published, leading to another Left Foot of Fellowship, one of the distinct sacraments of WELS/ELS. However, Glenn became president of the sect 19 years later.

This is the toxic glue that holds the modern Three Stooges together, total nonsense repeated so often it has become canonical.

I have tried for years to make sense out of the LCMS-WELS-ELS infatuation with Objective Justification - Forgiveness without Faith. We can easily see how Abraham believed in the Messianic Promises and was reckoned righteous because of his faith. 

KJV Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

The crucial fourth chapter of Romans teaches this with perfect clarity but the OJ Stooges ignore it completely and say repeatedly that the entire world was forgiven of all sin the moment Jesus rose from the dead, a false claim from the Pietists about KJV 1 Timothy 3:16 - "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."

KJV Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

This fourth chapter in Romans is completely ignored by the new Stooges as they chatter away and find delight in their mutual agreement over OJ. The least intelligent and least discerning in the LCMS-WELS-ELS sat down to express their delight and unity in OJ - also called 

• General Justification, 
• the Justification of the World, 
• Universal Justification, and 
• Universal Objective Justification. 

Their hero is a Preuss who became a Roman Catholic leader and editor! He said, "Give me the documents and I can prove anything." Or was that David Scaer?

 Robert Preus eventually repudiated OJ in his book Justification and Rome, but his sons could not see that until I brought it up a few dozen time. Rolf no longer quotes the book.

How do these clowns portray the Nativity? Everything is OK because the cross means every cannibal, every murderer, every pagan priest, every atheist, everyone persecuting the Christian Faith is forgiven! 

Their OJ consecrates and upholds the worst of foul dogma, so they are poisoning their own synods with a parade of neo-Roman and Eastern Orthodox seminary professors who demand adoration for denigrating the Gospel.

This fails any test, whether sobriety or just plain English, the product of a failed PhD in Germany.

University Supervisor Wrote -

 I have 20 years and counting at one school, a few years left at the other.

I found this when checking out some facts on LinkedIn, from my supervisor in undergraduate classes:

"Greg was a wonderful faculty member to work with both professionally and personally. His students always gave him positive teaching evaluations and was often recommended as a faculty member you just had to take a class from. As a manager, Greg was someone who was a pleasure to work with."

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