Pastor Jim and Joyce Radloff
Phone: 473-439-3411
Cell: 473-417-1311
Email: radloff@spiceisle.com
PO Box 1497
Grand Anse, Grenada
West Indies
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I have noticed that all the Church and Chicanery couples imply that the spouse is also an ordained minister. Pentecostal-like, this caption from the webpage (ditto all Church and Change couples) suggests Pastor Jim Radloff and Pastor Joyce Radloff.
C and C also likes to photograph people on their backs with their heads together. That could be a symptom of the Toronto blessing, holy laughter, falling on the ground. The grins look falling on the ground funny.
The apostates complain that my old quotations have nothing to do with the present. Past is prologue. The old Church Growth dogs are retiring and enjoying foreign travel. They are passing the bone of Enthusiasm for young pups to chew on.
Note well the old Radloff quotations, graciously preserved by Megatron, my database:
"Copied with permission. The Win Arn GROWTH REPORT." Pastor James Radloff, WELS MISSION COUNSELOR'S NEWSLETTER, January, 1992 Win Arn is head of the Church Growth Institute in Monrovia, CA, p. 6.
"Resources mentioned in this 'Bulletin' are available from CHURCH GROWTH, 709 E. Colorado Blvd. #150, Pasadena, CA 91101. Or call 1-800-423-4844."
Pastor Jim Radloff, Mission Counsellors’ Newsletter, Austin, Texas, May, 1988.
"The dynamics of assimilation into active church membership have very little to do with theological issues. Rather, a new members' class should focus primarily on relational issues of involvement and belonging." (Defining an Assimilated Member, by Charles Arn, copied with permission from EVANGELISM, 12800 North Lake Shore Drive, Mequon, WI, 53092. Annual subscription rate for EVANGELISM is $12...Charles Arn is Vice President of Church Growth, Inc. in Monrovia, Ca.)
Pastor Jim Radloff, editor WELS Mission Counselors' Newsletter, Oct., '91, 2929 Mayfair Road, Milwaukee, WI 53222 p. 150.
"Types of Home Groups, by Karen Hurston (Church Growth Assoc.), from material by Bob Fulton. Copied with the permission of Charles Arn."
Pastor Jim Radloff, editor WELS Mission Counselors' Newsletter, Oct., '91, 2929 Mayfair Road, Milwaukee, WI 53222 p. 11.
"What Are Affinity Groups? by Pastor Wayne Vogt, Fount of Life, Colorado Springs, CO."
Pastor Jim Radloff, editor WELS Mission Counselors' Newsletter, Oct., '91, 2929 Mayfair Road, Milwaukee, WI 53222 p. 8.
HomeWORD Bound Groups, Fairview, Milwaukee...
Pastor Jim Radloff, editor WELS Mission Counselors' Newsletter, Oct., '91, 2929 Mayfair Road, Milwaukee, WI 53222 pp. 3-5.
"THE CHURCH ORGANIZED FOR ACTION. 1. THEOLOGY - The Word of God...unchanging. The Word of God is efficacious. We are more or less effective administrators of the Word. Steps 2 through 6 (below) assure that our theology is put into practice as ministry in the most effective way possible. 2. MISSION STATEMENT - The clarification from Scripture of what God has called His Church to do...3. PHILOSOPHY OF MINISTRY - A Biblical and contemporary view of how we will do ministry here and now and why...4. VISION - A long-range, articulated picture of what, under God, we want our church to be. 5. STRATEGY - The planning process resulting in plans that, God willing, will take our church from where it is now to where we want it to be. 6. MINISTRY - The plan put into action...and evaluated regularly. Too often...ministry that is either: a) Unconsciously ineffective...b) Unconsciously effective...." Pastor Jim Radloff, editor, WELS Mission Counselors' NEWSLETTER, April, '92, 2929 Mayfair Road Milwaukee, WI 53222 p. 16.
WELS Mission Counselors' NEWSLETTER, April, 1992: authors are - James Woodworth, Disciples of Christ; "Net Results," March, 1991; Roger K. Guy, Disciples of Christ; Arnell P. C. Arn, American Baptist Church; Jane Easter Bahls, Presbyterian; C. Jeff Woods, freelance writer and minister; Lyle Schaller, United Methodist; Pastor Paul Kelm; Pastor Jim Mumm, WELS; Pastor Peter Panitzke, WELS; Pastor Randall Cutter and Mark Freier, WELS; First Congregational Church, Winchester, MA."
Pastor Jim Radloff, editor, WELS Mission Counselors' NEWSLETTER, April, '92, 2929 Mayfair Road Milwaukee, WI 53222.
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GJ - The WELS Church Growth leaders used to howl with rage because I quoted them "out of context." Sure, their rabid support of Fuller doctrine would have looked far more Lutheran in context. So I quoted longer passages. And they howled even longer and louder. I thought they wanted to spread their teaching far and wide, but they wanted me to stop quoting them.
Waldo Werning was no more tolerant of Megatron quotations. He went to Fuller Seminary before he never went to Fuller. Strange, he joined the North American Society for Church Growth (with Kent Hunter) and received an award from them. I was a member of the same group, so I could find out who the others were. There I was on the list, yet Church and Change did not invite me to speak at the Leonard Sweet conference.
Didja notice Mark Freier and Randy Cutter in Radloff's inspired publication? Paul Kelm? Larry Oh! showed up too. Those who managed to stay nominally Lutheran did well for themselves. The rest flew off to religions known and unknown. That is Church Growth for you - always providing fresh new fodder for their Father Below.
Mission Counselors are paid from synodical offering money to promote the Church Growth Movement.
Parish Assistants are subsidized by the synod to promote the doctrine of Trinity Divinity School and Fuller Seminary.
WELS/LCMS/ELS and Church Growth - they make the sub-prime mortgage fraud look positively angelic in comparison.
What other denominations have spent so many millions of dollars to teach against their own confessions?
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From WELS:
Dear co-worker in our Savior’s mission to reach the lost:
“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow”, wrote St. Paul to the Corinthians. Recognizing that the co-workers in God’s kingdom all have the same purpose, the value of good teamwork can only help us serve our Lord better as we seek to reach out to the lost and nurture those gathered in Jesus’ name.
That is the reason the WELS Mission Counselors Newsletter came into being back in 1983. MC Jim Radloff saw the value of sharing the materials which brothers had produced so that others could benefit from their work. Starting with a few pages of mimeographed materials the Newsletter has become a journal-sized publication with recent issues of 60 pages (often equivalent to as many as 100 pages of materials). It reaches nearly half the congregations of the WELS. All sorts of good things can come when we are exposed to the ideas and efforts of others. We can see ways in which to adapt or improve something that has already been written, rather than “reinventing” the entire ‘wheel’. We appreciate that we are in a network of brothers, rather than lone rangers. We are encouraged to improve the quality of our own work. It is quite true that we stand on the shoulders of others. We even hope that others outside our circles will make use of these biblically sound, Christ-centered materials. In only matters that we recognize and give glory to our Lord God when people come to faith and grow in faith.
Special Thanks
Over the years hundreds of ideas, Bible studies, special worship services, brochures, sermons, outreach approaches (in 2002, more than 400,000 inexpensive Easter postcards were printed and sent out through the efforts of Jon Schroeder; many of you learned about those through the MCN) have been developed and tweaked and shared. When Jon approached us with the idea of putting the MCN (including many of the resources from past issues) on the WELS website, we were delighted. We thank him and his co-workers for bringing all this to reality. They have already uploaded many hundreds of files and will be working for months to come to complete the project, as well as assisting with the online publishing of new issues.
Of course, the mission counselor corps has been a crucial part of the newsletter; gathering, writing, encouraging others to submit, and helping oversee its course.
We owe them a great debt of thanks:
Pastor Gene Ahlswede
Pastor Wayne Schulz
Pastor Ed Schuppe
Pastor John Huebner
[GJ - Thanks for keeping Church Shrinkage alive, boys. We all owe you, big time.]
Past Issues
Rather than copy every page of every newsletter, we have been selective in what we have chosen to include here. Not everything designed 20 years ago has the relevance or the quality we desire in today’s world. The scanning of past materials is not yet complete. More will be added as time permits.
Categories
We trust that the initial categories listed under “Archives” will serve to assist you in finding the materials which you are seeking. It may become necessary to make changes and additions as time goes on. We are open to suggestions.
Formats
Our team contacted as many MCN past contributors as possible, seeking to obtain original electronic files of submissions, thus making their materials more usable to you in word processing format (softcopy). New issues will all be available in original format (with possibly a few exceptions). Older issues will be available in Adobe Acrobat format which you can quickly download and optically scan into your word processor.
Searching
The search functions for the collection are not operational yet. We will be adding keyword searching as we go forward.
We submit these materials to you with the heartfelt desire that they may serve in advancing the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus, to his glory alone!
-John Huebner (MCN materials coordinator)
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GJ - I am confident that the MCN archives are so full of swarming bees that a man could die of a heart attack from finding one Lutheran speck there.
