St. Mark's may be creative, xeroxing the sermons of false teachers, but they are not well prepared. Their website says the pastor wears a rob at one service.
WELS and bad spelling go together, like Werning and Fuller. To be precise, bad spelling and Church Growth go together, like Church and Change. It's your church, but they will change it.
PS - Someone who knows reports that bad spelling and writing are pandemic among the children of the WELS hierarchy. The precious ones get passed for trying and move on up to higher education.
This reminds me of two students arguing which one went to a better college. One said, "We have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter." The other one said, "What's that?"
This actually happened to me -> The Columbus pastors were discussing how some people did not know the difference between the humiliation and the exinination (Latin for humiliation) of Christ. I knew the topic, but I wondered why they used synonymous terms instead of contrasting terms (the two states of Christ - exaltation and humiliation). I looked puzzled, so District VP Kuske said, "That's why ___ is teaching, because he knows the difference." They congratulated themselves on how intellectual they were.
Being ignorant and acting stupid are two ways to get ahead in WELS. John Lawrenz said this problem comes from the brain drain, when the intellectuals left WELS for Missouri. Besides, he noted the Protest'ant Conference (given the Left Foot of Fellowship by WELS) is considered brainy so brains are suspect.
PPS - Googling exinination produced this hilarious example from India:
Private candidates must bring with them proof of their eligibility certificate, marksheet, certificate of passing the qualifying exinination (sic) and a character certificate from a Gazetted Officer along with other documents mentioned in 4,5 and 6.
In WELS they humiliate students after accepting them.
Learn to spell Lutheran corner:
Wels Luthern (sic) Student Center
(605) 692-2201
919 9th Ave, Brookings, SD 57006 Map it | Get directions
Cross Streets: Between 9th St and Harvey Dunn St
St John's Ev Luthern (sic) Church Wels-Pastor's Office
202 8th St W
Hastings, MN 55033
