key member of Church and Chicanery,
next in line to be DP.
Mrs. Ichabod: "Zebras are vegetarians. It's like shooting a cow."
Nevermind.
REPORT OF THE DISTRICT PRESIDENT
Gethsemane Lutheran Church
18 April 2005
Madison:
Of far greater concern for me is the meeting of the Church and Change folks at Madison. Some of you may have received invitations to attend. I did not! Dr. Leonard Sweet is scheduled to be the "keynote speaker" for this gathering. If you want a real physic for your elimination problem go to his website and read up on him. Why anyone in our fellowship would invite this man to give the direction for a meeting held for our people is beyond my comprehension. They must have had to dial 666 to get ahold of him. We will have COP representation at this meeting. My concern is that the attending laity will not be able to pick out the good seeds from the pile of stuff that will be dumped on them and then they will go back to their congregation with arms waving over what great things they have learned. The former president of the North Atlantic District used to say that inviting such a person "is a dumb thing to do!" I would add that it is mighty dangerous as well. It is certainly not avoiding the false teachers.
Vilas Glaeske
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GJ - Big talk? As they say in Texas, all hat and no cattle.
Has V. Glaeske looked around his own district? How about a peek at his own VP's activities?
VP Don Patterson took one of his staff members and his Church and Chicanery network to the pan-denominational Exponential conference. The best known speaker at that conference was Babtist Ed Stetzer. Plenty of WELS clergy were there. Glaeske could not make it to an Issue in WELS meeting, but his VP participated in a well organized stampede to hear Stetzer.
Where is Doebler's Rock and Roll stealth congregation? Texas.
Don Patterson's network is busy bringing Babtist Ed Stetzer to speak in 2009. "Dumb and dangerous!"
Apparently Patterson is back from his African safari. His Facebook photo of his zebra-hunting skills is shown above.
