Let the buyer beware.
Someone stated, rather innocently, that Church Growth Deformed doctrine was allowed to expand in the Wisconsin sect for the last few decades.
Allowed is not the right word to use.
WELS made a deliberate, concerted effort--in conjunction with the LCMS, ELCA, and the Little Sect on the Prairie--to install the doctrines of Fuller, Willow Creek, and Trinity Deerfield. This began in WELS in 1977, with Ron Roth as editor of TELL. The purpose of that sad little rag was to promote the Church Growth Movement. The Love Shack made that clear in the first issue. The Popes Speak (aka Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly) confirmed the purpose of TELL - to promote Church Growth.
Millions of dollars have been siphoned from the offerings of faithful members to promote an anti-Lutheran agenda. Even more millions have been spent from St. Marvin of Schwan and Thrivent Insurance. Offering money was skimmed to start Church and Change, a deliberate and open effort to network all the Church Shrinkers and provide conferences featuring false teachers like Leonard Sweet and Brother Ed Stetzer.
If members and pastors are too stolid to attend the Church and Chicanery love-fests, the Doctrinal Pussycats like Englebrecht have provided clones in the name of district evangelism. The Rev. Soda Jerk spoke at the last two in Fox Valley, and the DP supports him.
WELS/ELS members who send their kids to Martin Luther College, expecting a Lutheran education, will find that the annual mission festival features all the leaders of Church and Chicanery, including Paul Kelm as the keynote speaker. When Kelm speaks, the fix is in. Count on it.
The Doctrinal Pussycats have not been lax. No, they have been giving the Sisera treatment to anyone doubting the value of Church Shrinkage. They have done their jobs, so bless their flinty little hearts.
SP Schroeder is the only national leader to express doubt or curtail the cancer of the Church Growth Movement. Therefore, the unelected thugs of Church and Change are gathering their forces to toss out the elected president. Their stunts in the last year remind me of the divorced and dysfunctional pastors of Columbus, who enjoyed the support of Mueller and Kuske, the silence of their fellow-pastors:
- Featuring Latte
LutheranChurch in FIC. - Hiring Paul Kelm as a consultant.
- Making Kelm the keynote speaker at Martin Luther college this year.
- Hiring former SP Gurgel as Kudu Don Patterson's part-time vicar.
- Hiring Babtist Ed Stetzer as the November conference speaker, hiding the fact on the C and C website, and denying the truth to any and all who take these liars seriously.
Allowed is simply too weak of a word to use with Church Growth in the various Lutheran sects. Even the Church of the Lutheran Confession (sic) has followed after, wagging its little puppy-dog tail.
The apostate leaders have promoted the Church Growth Movement with all their might and all your funds. No wonder it dominates, and Confessionalism is told "to whisper low in Jerusalem lest she be heard on the streets of Gath." (Theodore E. Schmauk)
On Sunday Ski said or rather shouted (if you were there you know I’m serious) “Churches want to put out their hand to help people out of the mud, but that’s not what our Savior does. Our Savior climbs in the mud with you and pulls you up and helps you out. That’s what we’re about.” We are about that because we recognize that Christ has pulled us from the mud countless times and he calls us to reflect that love for His glory.
That means sometimes we’re going to be uncomfortable. We’re going to do things we never wanted to or thought we’d do. But there are people who are hurting. People who need Jesus. And the way in which we bring them the good news of the Gospel is by climbing into the mud and getting dirty. We can’t picky about who or when or where, we just have to do it.
When was the last time you jumped in the mud to help someone else out? Who in your life right now is in the mud and needs your help?
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