The Wild Boar is Loose - BRTFSSG Beware!

The Wild Boar From the Forest has spoken. Here's a little of what he said:

The BRTFSSG has provided a reform and restructuring proposal for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Many are opposed to this proposal, and have, for various reasons recommended rejecting the proposal either in whole or in part. However, no counter proposals have been offered. If it is true that serious cuts will be necessary in the near future if the proposed changes are not adopted, a viable alternative proposal is needed. Therefore I offer the following, which is far more radical, yet requires no changes to the constitution.

One of the Wild Boar's proposals is an idea whose time has come:

The Council of Presidents is disbanded. The District Presidents may meet to discuss theology and practice at their discretion, but may not adopt position papers or policy directives. That is the task of the synod in convention. They may produce study documents with no binding power.

I'd offer two small correctives for this proposal:

First, the District Presidents may meet to discuss theology and practice at their discretion, and at their own expense.

Second, they can discuss theology and practice all they want, the can produce mountains of study documents if they'd like, they just can't release them. We've already got too many sources of unofficial and official "doctrine," we don't need 35 more sources, or one more "unified" source.

The Boar's proposals may be somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but they have a large degree of common sense about them. Maybe some of it will rub off.