Doom Has Come Upon Us All! Orcs Riding on Wargs! Huebner Accepts

"On Thursday, it was announced that Pastor James Huebner accepted the call to be second vice president of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

Delegates elected Huebner on Wednesday on the second ballot. Runner-up was incumbent Thomas Zarling, pastor at Christ Our Savior, Sterling, Va.

The delegates thanked Zarling for his service as second vice president for the past four years.

The second vice president is a parish pastor, so Huebner will continue as pastor at Grace, Milwaukee, Wis. In his role as second vice president, he shall “assist the president and the first vice president, serve on the Conference of Presidents, and serve as the corporate secretary for the corporation” (WELS Bylaws Section 2.20)."

***

The headline is borrowed from Tokien's The Hobbit.

Of course, millions were shocked that Huenber would accept a promotion of any type. When he was about to be ordained, he and James Tiefel were vying for the call to Grace, Milwaukee. Huebner said (as he told me), "Tiefel won't get Grace. I'm getting Grace."

Huebner's father, as president of Dr. Martin Luther College, defended WELS teacher/murderer Al Just on the stand in Phoenix. Following in the same tradition, James Huebner took Floyd Luther Stolzenburg's side in Columbus, when he arrived to "fix things," based on his training at Fuller Seminary.

It is absurd how many WELS pastors stood behind Stolzenburg, a man forced to leave the LCMS ministry for cause, a blatant false teacher who never joined WELS and swore he never would. Paul Kuske and DP Robert Mueler practically promised sainthood to Floyd. Kuske and Floyd even started Pilgrim Community Church together.

So Huebner, as Second VP, will do everything possible to undermine anything the new Synodical President Schroeder might do. Huebner will be the Church Growth/Church-and-Change minder when Wayne Mueller is not there.

Huebner wanted a copy of Lenski's Eisenach Gospels. I found one at Trinity for 25 cents and sent it to him. I inscribed on the cover: "May this help you repudiate the Church Growth Movement." I never got an acknowledgement or a note of thanks.

Huebner turned pale when I told him how many copies of things I made each week and mailed out to people.