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| That should be a much better book for WELS, no? |
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| "Assignment days at MLC and WLS are joyful days—joyful for the young men and women who learn where God will have them serve in the ministry and joyful for the members of the synod who see God keeping his promise to send workers into his harvest field." |
I was thinking about the slide in church positions when the latest rah-rah from the WELS president was posted. They will graduate 27 men from their Mequon seminary. When I was there for a semester, there were 60 graduating as pastors. People have written to me that the GA abuse against first year students was the reason for them never applying. The hazing at the youngest prep level gets them ready for college hazing/drinking and then seminary's GA mind game. By the time they are ordained, Holy Mother WELS can do anything to them, unless they have DNA from district presidents, faculty, and circuit priests. Then they are absolved, whether felonies or misdemeanors. Actual crimes are swept under the carpet as fast as they can and lame alibis are produced at high speed.
The little sects model themselves after the big ones - they covet the numbers, the buildings, and bureaucracies. Even though ELCA and LCMS are shredding members faster than the Biden Fan Club, they still look big to the little ones.
Forty years ago, WELS was working with ELCA and borrowing the sanctified programs of the Big Guy. I asked,
"How come WELS is distributing verbatim material on stewardship, the same words and graphics of the soon-to-be ELCA?" "
"Why did SP Mishke go to Snowbird and confer with President Bohlmann and Bishop Chilstrom?" Snowbird was packed with staffers, all feeding off the insurance company du jour. Lutheran Brotherhood and AAL merged because of their impending financial failures. The Big Five loved them anyway.
I could ask the Michigan DP something and know he was lying by playing fumble-bumble - the old GA hazing they called playing mind games.
If we look at ELS and CLC (sic) history, the disasters are greater and the excuses monumental.
The key consideration is the bureaucracy providing a warm nest for in-laws, relatives, and ex-parish pastors. Hardly any pastor will rebel against their apostate leaders.
