Glende, Ski, and Katy are larning evangelism from the Babtists in Atlanta.
Buske is there too, but he is from Milwaukee.
Ski, Buske, and Parlow were there last year for Drive 08. Have you read Ski's blog about worshiping with Andy Stanley and how awesome that was?
WELS found enough spine to shut down the Waldo Werning-Kent Hunter love fest, but promotes Babtist touchy-feely decision theology?
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Doug Englebrecht - It's 10 PMDo You Know Where You...":
President Engelbrecht:
Please act on this.
Thank-you.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Doug Englebrecht - It's 10 PMDo You Know Where You...":
Pastor Englebrecht, where are your pastors and even more importantly - where is your spine? If you are not willing to do your job, please resign and let someone who is willing to keep a close eye on wayward pastors do that job for you! These pastors who prefer to learn from people with whom WELS is not even in fellowship with should be disciplined and made an example of as to keep others from getting the same idea. I personally am on the brink of severing my own lifelong membership with the WELS. Not that I am leaving WELS but that they have left ME. I anxiously await this upcoming synod convention and expect to see a harsh condemnation of this type of activity followed by not just lip service, but serious consequence to those who would try to hijack my church now or in the future. Without that, sadly I fear I can no longer associate with a church body that doesn't practice what it preaches.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Doug Englebrecht - It's 10 PMDo You Know Where You...":
Two years ago I joined the local WELS church after having been Baptist most of my life. I do believe what I was taught in confirmation classes and could see where my old church had gone astray. I am sad to watch as my new church is drifting slowly but surely to look and act exactly like my old church. What is the alternative? I am at a loss.
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President Engelbrecht:
Please act on this.
Thank-you.
Why did Doug Englebrecht surrender his district to the hucksters?
If memory serves, there is a proposal at convention this summer to divide up the Northern "Anything Goes" District in order to "provide more time for DP's to work more closely with local congregations and pastors."
I'm assuming that's WELS-speak for "dilute the the ineffective."
+Diet O. Worms
Keeping Englebrecht as DP only further hurts an ailing district. Get him a clerical position in Arizona handling the mail.
TIME TO REORGANIZE WELS. Pastors getting training from other denominations points out glaring deficiencies in the current WELS education system. A couple of ways to balance the budget and provide better education include the following:
1. Close and rent out or sell MLC, MLS, and Mequon Seminary
2. Contract for training at the Fuller Seminary that WELS leadership loves so much
3. Drastically reduce the WELS administrative staff
4. Close/sell NPH
5. Reorganize and eliminate legacy costs like pensions
6. Begin looking into mergers with other denominations
7. Distribute the proceeds to member congregations who can use it to better serve the Lord.
These changes prove necessary given the results of past and present corruption and incompetence, and the fact that the leaders refuse to make the necessary changes. Synod has deteriorated to the point that it cannot help itself, say nothing of helping member congregations. It does not deserve a bailout.
Pastor Englebrecht, where are your pastors and even more importantly - where is your spine? If you are not willing to do your job, please resign and let someone who is willing to keep a close eye on wayward pastors do that job for you! These pastors who prefer to learn from people with whom WELS is not even in fellowship with should be disciplined and made an example of as to keep others from getting the same idea. I personally am on the brink of severing my own lifelong membership with the WELS. Not that I am leaving WELS but that they have left ME. I anxiously await this upcoming synod convention and expect to see a harsh condemnation of this type of activity followed by not just lip service, but serious consequence to those who would try to hijack my church now or in the future. Without that, sadly I fear I can no longer associate with a church body that doesn't practice what it preaches.
Don't get your hopes about this upcoming synod convention. If my hunch is correct, synod is now so corrupt that it will give Pastor Englebrecht a medal for outstanding conduct as a DP.
Two years ago I joined the local WELS church after having been Baptist most of my life. I do believe what I was taught in confirmation classes and could see where my old church had gone astray. I am sad to watch as my new church is drifting slowly but surely to look and act exactly like my old church. What is the alternative? I am at a loss.
Especially To Anon from 7:43 PM and also others in the same boat:
Please share this with President Mark Schroeder. I am like you. WELS is driving away the ones they once evangelized.
To Contact him -
Rev. Mark Schroeder
WELS President
mark.schroeder@sab.wels.net
414-256-3201
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