the Dare-To-Succeed sermon series.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Why Is the Lutheran Church a Two-Headed Calf?":
WELS is so bad that no one can deny how Fuller-centric it is.
Actually, basically everybody can.
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GJ - OK, Rev. Mouse. You asked for the list. Here it is:
David Valleskey, former president of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, attended Fuller Seminary and bragged about it in his worship bulletin at Apostles.
Frosty Bivens, seminary professor, bragged about studying at Fuller and following CG methods at a circuit meeting in Midland, Michigan.
Larry Olson earned a D.Min. at Fuller Seminary, qualifying him to teach at Martin Luther College in New Ulm.
Norm Berg studied at Fuller Seminary, enlightening him for his work as Mission Board Chairman. He admitted that in a letter to me.
Joel Gerlach, former seminary professor, admitted studying at Fuller in his letter to Herman Otten.
Reuel Schulz was known for studying at Fuller.
Fuller Seminary sent out a letter to all WELS pastors, listing all the leaders of the sect trained at Pasadena. That caused enormous consternation but nothing else.
Wally Oelhaven and Fred Adrian both had hissy fits when I dared to criticize the Church Growth Movement in a conference paper. I thought they would explode. They admitted studying at Fuller, but that did not change their theology, they claimed. Wally promoted CG (especially the cloned tomes of Werning) every chance he got. Adrian supervised the vicar who went to the state prison.
James Huebner, Paul Kelm, and Larry Olson were trained as Parish Consultants at Fuller Seminary, according to Huebner.
One might assume from their public drooling about Church Growth that Robert Hartman and Ron Roth attended Fuller. A WELS pastor said that was true of the current head of the mission board.
I understand all the foreign missionaries were either sent to Fuller or forced to study Fuller material.
I copied hundreds of Church Growth quotations from WELS into Megatron, my quotation database.
Lutheran Parish Resources was started in Columbus by VP Paul Kuske and DP Robert Mueller to promote the Church Growth Movement. The Michigan District started two stealth CG congregations, both miserable failures. Kuske started Pilgrim Community Church (HA!) and Mueller started Crossroads Community Church. Kuske's flopped in record time. Crossroads is a non-Lutheran congregation now (HA! HA!). (Read your church history boys. The generic Protestant Lutheran congregations of the 19th century turned Congregationalist or worse in a few years.)
WELS started TELL specifically to promote the Church Growth Movement. That little rag morphed into the Mission Counselor's Newsletter, which was even more fanatical in its support of Fuller doctrine and methods.
Currently there is the Church and Change Apostasy Unit in WELS, cheerfully promoting women's ordination and false doctrine, with the blessings of the Wayne Mueller family, father and son. Is it an exaggeration to say Church and Change is devoted to Church Growth? The 2005 conference was canceled, amid showers of tears--from the Moose Report to the hallowed halls of the Sausage Factory--but scheduled again for 2007 and 2009. Will the WELS pastors have the guts to gut the monster? No. Leonard Sweet will return in triumph.
An ELCA pastor sent this bit of wisdom:
As someone who was forced to listen to Leonard Sweet for four hours, WELS was lucky that his presentation was dropped. He is all smoke and mirrors even from a liberal perspective.
