Fuller is Third LCMS Seminary
Here's an interesting quote attributed to Richard John Neuhaus (then ELCA, now Roman Catholic)
in regard to the Church Growth Movement:
"Then there is the church growth movement, which has made more devastating
headway in LCMS than in ELCA (although it is evident enough in the latter).
Today, it is said, Missouri has three seminaries -- St Louis, Ft Wayne and
Fuller Seminary in California, the hothouse of church growth enthusiasms.
The synodical and district mission offices are frequently controlled by
church growth technocrats ... But the idea that Word and Sacrament ministry
is somehow validated by calculable results is utterly alien to the Lutheran
Reformation ... The triumph of style over substance, however, is all too
evident in LCMS congregations that look like Baptists with vestments. As we
have noted before, second-rate Lutherans make fourth-rate Baptists."
As quoted by Rev G. L. Jackson, "Truth on the Scaffold: The Fuller Influence
on ELCA, WELS and LCMS" (New Ulm, MN: Martin Chemnitz Press, 1996): pp. 23-24.