Mark Freier - Some People Are Gone But Not Forgotten; Others Are Forgotten But Not Gone

He is back!

Mark Freier Bio

Mark Freier was justly famous for Coral Springs, a WELS mission that became a Roman Catholic Church. The building was sold to the Catholics. Randy Cutter, another WELS Church Growth hero, is serving a storefront Pentecostal healing church.

How odd, that WELS CG heroes become Pentecostal and whatever, not remaining Lutheran. But, the sect theologians say, Church Growth is a doctrinally neutral set of methods.

Then there was the must-see Freier video: Rock and Christian's Role. I heard it was a best-seller once it was banned for false doctrine.

Mark went on to serve at Crossroads Community Church, South Lyons, Michigan. Vistors were invited to swim parties. Holy Baptism - Means of Grace. Swimming pool - the jury is out.

WELS sponsored and supported Crossroads, until the news got out. Staffed with WELS people, they did not much want to be WELS. The Michigan District pastors were not impressed. DP Mueller had to withhold his predestined and predestinating blessing.

Mark Schroeder - MLS

Top Lutheran official coming to Michigan Lutheran Seminary
Posted by Amy Payne September 12, 2007 01:06AM
The outlook for Michigan Lutheran Seminary is bright, says the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod's newly elected president.

"The future of MLS is in no more question today than any of God's promises are in question," said Mark G. Schroeder, former president of the Saginaw school's sister high school, Luther Preparatory School in Watertown, Wis.

Schroeder will visit Saginaw on Friday for the Seminary Governing Board meeting.

He then will attend a Seminary Guild support organization gathering at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

The Saginaw News

The Blind Leading the Blind, II - UOJ and WELS

We believe that in Christ God reconciled the "world to himself" (2 Corinthians 5:19), that Jesus is "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). The mercy and grace of God are all-embracing; the reconciliation through Christ is universal; the forgiveness of sins has been gained as an accomplished fact for all men. Because of the substitutionary work of Christ, God has justified, that is, declared the verdict of "not guilty" upon all mankind. This forms the firm, objective basis for the sinner's assurance of salvation.

This We Believe

A Statement of Belief of the Wisconsin Ev. Lutheran Synod


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This is the same folly embedded in The Brief Statement of the LCMS: Universal Objective Justification. Everyone is forgiven, good news for Universalists everywhere. At least Universalists have the courage to state their views sincerely, without trying to sound orthodox.

This bizarre opinion is limited to several Midwestern sects and recently invented, as their own advocates have to admit.