Is WLCFS the Missing Link?

Church and Change Lynchpin, VP, Central Southern Babtist District, WELS, Don Patterson. Ask him about how to get a synod grant.
Church and Change teaches that skill.

Rev. Donald W. Patterson

Pastor Patterson has served on the WLCFS Board of Directors since 2006. He also serves as pastor of Holy Word, Austin, TX. In addition to his service at WLCFS, Pastor Patterson is also the First Vice President for the South Central District of WELS and serves on the Spiritual Growth Project Team.

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GJ - Someone told me that Church and Change has its tendrils in Wisconsin Child and Family Services, the WELS agency that once enjoyed an avalanche of Schwan donations.

The Love That Dare Not, IV: Stealth Blog

Stealth churches produce stealth members with stealth blogs.

Many Lutheran blogs are anonymous. Some Lutheran blogs require secret passwords, signs, and tokens to get in. Sure, I want to hack into those blogs to meet another timid, trembling pastor, more sheep than shepherd. Besides, the leaders all know who these guys are.

I found a blog somewhere in the middle. There is no author's name given. The writer wants to defend his Rock and Roll WELS Church, but does not list his own name.

An Apology for a 'Rock and Roll' Lutheran Church
Fair and respectful dialog concerning change in today's Confessional Lutheran Church.

His initials are given later - JK. I smoked him out before as Joe Krohn, who was earlier a member of CrossWalk, Laveen (nominally WELS, Phoenix area). He is now a member of Matt Doebler's Rock and Roll Lutheran Church in Texas. As regular readers know, Doebler is part of a group of Church and Change pastors led by District VP Don Patterson. WELS is broke again, but Patterson gets free vicars, courtesy of largesse from The Love Shack (your offering dollars at work). Would there be a conflict of interest among the decision-makers and the eager recipients? Do they belong to the same secret lodge called Church and Change? Hmmm?

Patterson and Paul Kelm both spoke to The Sausage Factory about how to produce more uniform (Babtist) sausages. Apparently some of the sausages were graduating but not well rounded, in a manner of speaking.

Joe Krohn is also a UOJ follower. All the Church Shrinkers in WELS love Universal Objective Justification, an opinion which is taken, word for word, from a Pietistic dogmatics book (19th century). There will be some red faces in the old Synodical Conference in a year or so.

I found Joe promoting his blog on Bailing Water:

Anonymous said...
I can't help but feel that your opening remarks are at the very least legalistic and at the worst judgemental. To say that high church liturgical is the only way to do corporate worship flies in the face of The Augsburg Confession and more importantly the Bible. I would be glad to discuss in detail point by point. My blog or yours?

JK
http://randrchurch.blogspot.com/

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Ebony and Ivory

Ebony and Ivory live together in perfect harmony
side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we?

We all know that people are the same where ever we go
There is good and bad in ev'ryone,
we learn to live, we learn to give
each other what we need to survive together alive.

Ebony and Ivory live together in perfect harmony
side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord why don't we?

Ebony, ivory living in perfect harmony
Ebony, ivory, ooh

We all know that people are the same where ever we go
There is good and bad in ev'ryone,
we learn to live, we learn to give
each other what we need to survive together alive.

Ebony and Ivory live together in perfect harmony
side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord why don't we?

Ebony, ivory living in perfect harmony (repeat and fade)


Paul McCartney Ebony And Ivory Lyrics
Songwriters: Mccartney, Paul;

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GJ - Mrs. Ichabod noticed the race reversal in the two top government jobs. "Just like Ebony and Ivory." This song was spoofed on Saturday Night Live once, when the show was still funny.

Stealth Update: WELS Members Waking Up To Church and Change Menace

Bailing Water has WELS members reporting they never heard of Church and Change. They also say their pastors know nothing about it.

This is an actual exchange with a WELS pastor:

The other guy: "Church and Change is no more. President Gurgel took it apart. It doesn't exist."

Me: "Oh yeah? Then why are they registering people for their next conference [2007] from the WELS.net website? They have their own jumpword."

[Later it dawned on me that the head of technology for WELS, Martin Luther Spriggs, was the former pastor who gave Willow Creek sermons verbatim from the pulpit. His pastoral work and Willow Creekery are absent from his posted bio.]

I kept publishing the facts about the conference, which the WELS pastor did not know was happening until I told him. The jumpword was removed but the conference went on. Another Church and Change conference is scheduled for 2009. They booked Babtist Ed Stetzer last August, but their stealthy website does not admit to Stetzer's invitation, three months later.

Finally, Church and Change admitted to the event, but not to the keynote speaker:

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Conference 09
Nov 5th - 7th
Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel and Convention Center

C&C events are a great place to network with people who have similar ministries, situations and problems. Come, learn and benefit from everyone's experience!


More information is coming soon!

Church and Change is run from The Love Shack, WELS headquarters. One bored member, Bruce Becker, is in charge of Parish Shrinkage. Yes, they have a whole department devoted to shrinking the size of WELS. And they are effective. WELS has lost members ever since Ron Roth was the first Church Shrinkage leader at The Love Shack. He took on that role as editor of The Evangelism Life Line, TELL.

Ron Roth began as editor of TELL, which was "devoted to the cause of Church Growth," in 1977.

The editors of TELL were:
Ron Roth: 1977 - 1984.
Paul Kelm: 1984 - 1988.
Robert Hartman: 1988 - 19892.

TELL did not die, but expanded into Perish Leadership, which showed an expanding readership how their congregations could perish on Church Growth doctrine from Fooler Seminary and Willow Crick.

So, as the anvil salesman from The Music Man, would have told WELS members: "You square-toed hicks. You've been flim-flammed...He's a bare faced, double shuffle, two bit, thimble rigger."

Yes, for 31 years WELS members have paid the salaries of ordained Lutheran pastors devoted to the cause of Church Growth. And one of them, Paul Kelm, is coming back.

The Church and Change conference is designed to let the Shrinkers all network with each other. I thought they did that already at The Love Shack.

Millions of dollars of members' offerings have been spent supporting these weevils and what are the results? WELS received the largest charitable gift ever from St. Marvin Schwan and is now broke, deep into debt from misusing designated funds.

SP Schroeder is trying to clean up their messes and the Church Shrinkers want him out.

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