A fellow LCMS pastor recently stated:

Leaders and especially church leader [sic], if you’re not empowering and raising up women to lead at all levels in your organization and in your congregation you are missing out on growth and God’s giftedness in your midst. Honor God by honoring His design and development in women and men, young and old.”

Interestingly, his congregation has several pastors, but (thankfully) they are all men. His circuit visitor, and district and synod presidents are also of the masculine persuasion. This dichotomy between what is professed and what is practiced is an example of what Dr. Pieper called “a felicitous inconsistency.”

For if we really applied such claptrap to the Church, if this pastor instead went the route of an “infelicitous consistency,” it would look something like this: