BW Channels Paul Kelm

From Bailing Water:

Anonymous said...
Here are some gems from the supposedly Lutheran St. Mark De Pere:

"Opening Praise Songs (2)"

Do you know why there are 2 praise songs? I do. Contemporary worship gurus have determined that at least 2 songs are needed at the beginning of worship to get people into the right "emotional mindset" to make their decision for Christ during the service. Gotta love it. Mental manipulation and decision theology!

"Gathering around the Word
Scripture readings
Mission Statement
Praise song/hymn"

Mission statement? What?!? Gathering around the Word means reading a mission statement? Ugh. is this a worship service or a business meeting?

"Gathering for Thanksgiving
Offering
Prayers
Praise Song
Q & A period or The Supper"

Q & A period OR the Supper?!? My first question would be, "Why can't we have the Supper?"

"Contemporary Service
among Evangelicals"

Huh? They're blatantly telling us that this is an Evangelical service, not a Lutheran service? Wow. Just wow.

"based on the services
of the American
Tent Revivals
1820-30s AD"

Shocking. Just shocking. A "Lutheran" church basing its worship on the American Tent Revivals? You have got to be kidding me. The tent revivals were hotbeds of every single false doctrine that plagues American Christianity today. Every single element of these services were meant to manipulate emotions. The focus was exclusively on man, not on Christ.

This is supposed to be a good example of good Lutheran worship without using the liturgy? Are you serious? This is a good example of what happens when you don't use the liturgy.

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GJ - The Kelm-Valleskey-Olson Bund made a career out of xeroxing Deformed theology and calling it "creative." Their guru, Waldo Werning, had the integrity to put quotation marks around his endless pages of verbatim copying. The WELS leaders present their borrowed ideas as right out of the Bible. Caught in the act of plagiarizing Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek, and Oral Roberts, they claim to be "spoiling the Egyptians," an excuse hooked from Larry Crab, Fuller Seminary superstar.

Young Valleskey (Stephen, son of David, son of Vilas) has a woman staff minister. Someone asked me if she "usurped authority over men." That is the idea - another way to extirpate Lutheran doctrine, replacing it with Deformed theology and Kresge-level marketing.