This sounds like like The Love Shack. Turnaround Churches.
The Assemblies of God calls them Comeback Churches.
The Mission Vision Statement of WELS was just like the Mission Vision Statement of the Assemblies of God.
What do they have in common besides Brother Stetzer? They all study at the same market-driven institutions: Fuller, Willow Creek. They adore business plans, starting with Drucker's Management by Objective. ELCA also promoted Management by Objective.
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Brother Stetzer Helps the Assemblies of God Grow...Or Shrink
