Hmm. Well, I have a completely different perspective. But as I’ve seen you nail pretty much every denomination to the wall so I guess my time was coming. I’m ok with that because the Gospel is our focus and if you or others don’t like that it’s not my business.
In terms of membership I believe overall we’ve increased slightly in the last 10 years, not leaps and bounds, but increased. Of course itchy ears tend to go where they are not reminded of their sinful nature and need for a Savior like we hear in our parishes across the world, so maybe that’s a big reason why we don’t become a “mega-church”. Truth be told I’m 100% ok with that.
Blessings to you in Christ!
PM
To the degree that WELS preaches plain Scripture, I liked it.
It was what they inferred and read into Scripture and how they wholesale arrogantly and abusively, irrationally, irresponsibly treated a number of missionary families that infuriated me.
Congrats on the growth. I’m a bit surprised.