Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Church and Chicaneries Yelping in Pain":
I am sitting in an airport on my way to Chicago looking for a church to go to this Sunday. After reading the many articles on your site I have chosen Crossroads with Pastor Borgwardt. Thanks for your help.
The Traveler
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GJ - One WELS observer said today that the sect is probably beyond hope now. Nothing was done for the last 20 years: now the weed growth is deep and rapant.
Remember when WELS pastors used to talk about Missouri turning liberal at the headquarters and seminary? When it was happening around their WELSian eyes, no one noticed. Mequon is dominated by Growthers who are miffed that Mark Jeske is lecturing at a Missouri college (the Concordia, Mequon place WELS refused to buy). WELS has been working with ELCA and Missouri for decades, and they still do. I imagine half of The Sausage Factory faculty trained at a Schwaermer school. Most of the staff at The Love Shack did. The WELS initials are carved in the catalogue of Trinity Divinity School in Deerfield. How do you supposed that happened?
The only false teachers ever nixed by WELS were Werning and Hunter - probably because they were LCMS, not because they were worse than Leonard Sweet, Martin Marty, Ed Stetzer, and the homosexual Archbishop Weakland.
I could list the names of WELS and ELS pastors who muted themselves the moment I pointed out how obvious the Fuller/ELCA influence was, starting around 20 years ago. Some of them were vocal in private but on the opposite side in public.
Needless to say, the Mission Counselors and Parish Consultants have been dedicated to installing the Fuller/Willow Creek model everywhere while getting rid of any and all critics, including laymen.
The same things are happening in Missouri right now. The difference is that LCMS President Kieschnick has I Luv Fuller tatooed on his right deltoid. SP Schroeder does not.
The only comical thing about this mess comes from the string of denials about it happening. David Valleskey and pal Forrest Bivens never went to Fuller, but both bragged about studying there. Larry Olson had a friend deny his Fuller study in Christian News. Later Olson admitted he did have a drive-by DMin from Fuller. So it wasn't the Rose Bowl he attended, but Fuller? He almost had me Foolered. Hosts of WELS leaders like Wally Oelhaven, Fred Adrian, Joel Gerlach, and Norm Berg admitted going to Fuller while being outraged that anyone criticized their Alma Mater. Wayne Mueller said there was no Church Growth in WELS while The Love Shack bragged that TELL was started to promote the Church Growth Movement.
WELS started Church and Change with the offerings of their own members. That is like Israel sponsoring a Nazi party in Jerusalem.
Ask yourselves why it is that Church and Change congregations have women pastors already. When Mequon officially finally studies the matter, as they did with Church Growth, they will approve what is already established.
Church and Change goes on. They have obnoxiously undermined SP Schroeder every chance they could get. By all accounts a bunch of them should be fired for insubordination. They were appointed to serve, not to rule. The budget meltdown may do unto them what they have done unto others. If they push out SP Schroeder as planned, WELS is finished.
Issues in WELS - gone. No website. That was one, big fight, fellas. Round One and hit the canvas. Down for the long count. Erase the evidence. To have some fun, I asked Ski and some Latter Day Saints (newborn CG critics) about being friends on Facebook. Stetzer responded yes right away. But WELS pastors like Ski said no. And newly hatched CG critics also said no.
Here is Ski bragging about his pilgrimage to see Andy Stanley, with other WELS pastors like Parlow:
http://web.me.com/pastorski/Site/Drive_08_%26_Journal.html
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Anonymous Does Not Get It":
You guys take yourselves WAY too serious (sic)...but then its (sic) OK for all of you to belittle, mock and be snide. Double standard. Go take your midol now.
