ELCA - WELS Parallel:Goodsoil versus Church and Change.Missouri and the Little Sect Have Factions Too

This is a group photo of GoodSoil supporters, wearing their rainbows.
I understand various bishops and leaders wore them at the 2009 convention.

The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau discussion group is talking about the upcoming ELCA convention and previous ones. In 2007, Brad Schmeling, a pastor kicked out of ELCA, for violating their rules, was the preacher at the alternative worship service at their convention. In 2009, the rules were reversed, and the same minister was welcomed back shortly afterward. Various pastors and congregations under fake-discipline were also welcomed back with special ceremonies designed by ELCA.

Nevertheless, GoodSoil is organized to have parallel services at the upcoming convention and engage the conventioneers in furthering GoodSoil goals. That will probably lead to openly gay bishops of both genders.

The result of their political achievements, enforced ruthlessly by ELCA bishops, is an unprecedented flight from ELCA. The two leading protest denominations are the LCMC and the NALC, both products of the traditional group within ELCA, named CORE. Those two groups alone have 1,000 congregations, many of them the largest ones in ELCA. The exits continue and the ELCA seminaries are in deep financial trouble.

In the mid 19th century, a similar division took place in the old General Synod, when approximately half of the congregations left and formed their own seminary in Philadelphia, where I was once interviewed for a job.

GoodSoil Clearly Runs ELCA
The GoodSoil agenda and Bishop Mark Hanson's agenda are the same. The ELCA bishops all work to enforce that agenda. Unlike the Episcopal Church, no active bishop has left ELCA, nor have any ELCA bishops taken entire districts out with them. ELCA leader Hanson is a hero among mainline denomination leaders.

Church and Change Runs WELS

The agenda was announced in 1977 in TELL - to promote the Church Growth Movement from Fuller Seminary. SP Naumann endorsed it. SP Miscke promoted it. SP Gurgle institutionalized it. SP Schroeder frowned at it while giving them everything they wanted.

TELL officially died in 1982, only to be resurrected by Valleskey pal Radlof as the Mission Counselor's Newsletter. They bragged, once again, about TELL's goal to promote Church Growth. With the mission counselor's program, WELS had Fuller-trained robots paid by offerings to promote Babtist-Pentecostal doctrine and the ruminations of "Lutheran" CG copycats.

In 1995, Church and Change began, using synod offering money, to promote the Church Growth Movement as outside protest group.

In 2011, Church and Change announced they were done, but their website and their board of directors remain in place. Their meeting last year, which Don Patterson attended, was called Regaining Momentum. Patterson has hired Church and Change's Cornerstone (Team Tetzel) to raise money for his latest dreams.

Various people made me aware of the facts and gave me the actual materials. Some have prospered by saying nothing while letting me do their work for them. The Changers have been howling in dismay over revelations, especially since this blog owns many Lutheran topics and images when people use Google.

The yelling seemed to go up a notch when I began uniting sound and false doctrine with graphics.

Church and Change owns WELS (synod staff, both colleges, seminary, FICL) and continues to bear fruit: schools closing, membership shrinking, false doctrine growing.

"Don't gloat, Brett. We are still working with Missouri, WELS, and the ELS."