The Lutheran Church in America modeled its organization after General Motors. Nobody was ashamed - they were proud of copying Management by Objective. I heard Peter Drucker's MBO in the LCA and - surprise! - WELS. Drucker enchanted denominations by promoting the clownish pratfalls of Fuller, Willow Creek, the Hour of Power, etc.
Just as business devoured itself with MBO, so the synods spat on the Means of Grass and the KJV - to make themselves cool (!?) and waste everyone's money but not theirs. Oh no.
The Waltherian Four - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC - wanted to preen their feathers and strut around showing off their superiority. Given their unified (Fuller etc) stupidity, they have nowhere to hide their colossal failures, clergy arrests, and bankruptcies.
Tis funny - Thrivent gives a lot of money to the Luther-dumbs by waving their irrevocable charitable trust annuities [beware this investment vehicle] to the grandparents, rewarding the clergy for selling something they don't understand, and giving some loot to the synods.
