As you know, VP Don Patterson organized a WELS pilgrimage to the last Exponential. His response to me, so far, has been limited to writing, "You are a fool and a liar." He earned his PhotoShop bunnysuit by having a pagan Easter egg hunt at his church - to celebrate what exactly? Well, the kiddies love it. And it's not as violent or expensive as a zebra hunt.
Following are some blogs for keeping up with Exponential this year. They were supplied by a WELS layman not entirely happy with WELS Enthusiasm and those who promote false doctrine by their slavish devotion to false teachers.
Cory Whitehead has some comments on Craig Groeschel, who makes some WELS pastors hotter than Georgia asphalt.
Doug Foltz swoons about the Art of Movement. If only the Enthusiasts would teach what Isaiah 55:8-10 teaches about the Holy Spirit and the Word. But that would make them Lutherans.
Dan Mastrapa says listening to Groeschel is like "drinking from a fire hose." This site provides a whole list of bloggers blogging about Exponential.
Dave Ferguson rhapsodizes about Exponential on this blog.
WELS member: "Interesting that the Francis Chan speaker is trying turn the churches away from watching 'the numbers.' Hmmmm....."
Here is a taste of Exponential ignorance, with religious misspelled in the video:
Acts 1:8 sets the stage for a reading from "Jesus With Dirty Feet." From the opening session of the Exponential Conference. www.exponentialconference.org I think they borrowed that idea from one of Ski's sermons, about getting down in the mud. Or maybe he borrowed it from them?
Official video of Francis Chan's introduction at Exponential:
Embarrassing for all Christians. These Becoming Missionals and Emerging Church fanatics simply ooze a loathing for the Christian Church and faithful members. This is just a new marketing approach for what Fuller originally offerred - a way to topple Jesus from His throne while talking about Jesus all the time.
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Members are dashing for the light of Christ to escape a dead religion. Where do you get that they "ooze a loathing?"
It is theologically horrific that these Exponential services, workshops, and lectures are based entirely on the feelings of the sinner. (Lutherans understand how well that works.) This monstrous "decision theology" that traps those without faith or stunts those with weak faith, is now somehow also to be trusted by the these "church planters."
In the official conference Youtube video, you see 'hundreds' of preachers kneeling before the 20' projection screens and the alter of the praise band *feeling* the commitment to plant a church, getting a laying on of the hands by whomever. (It sure wasn't a divine call via synod they were getting.) What should our response be?
A person wanders aimlessly, weakly, in the desert; he is parched by sin, and seeks desperately the saving Water & Word. He knocks at the gates of the Cathedral of the Shadow of Enthusiasm. [He reads the sign: "Be Back after Exponential!" and slumps on the sidewalk, waiting until they return.]
"Water! I need Water!" he cries.
"Would you like some popcorn?" replies the Bishopette of Butter.
"I'm dying. I just need to be saved. I need refreshing Water and Supper," he gasps.
"Well, I'm qualified to administer the Means of Great Music, if you'd like," she replies. "Would you like to sing about how you feel about Water?"
"No, I'm lost. I'm tired. I just need Water and comfort of the Word."
"Well, the band doesn't get here until 4:30 Sundays. Would you like to watch a DVD sermon on how to spice up your bedroom life, or the one with the ketchup-squirting backup singers?"
"I'm crushed by sin... I can't function... How am I able to decide? Don't I just need Water?" he wonders.
You can see how this ends. Badly.
+Diet O. Worms
Don Patterson is another slacker who would benefit from being put out on the street to job hunt. If that happened, he could begin to comprehend why he and his ilk are such a pain in the neck.
Oh, a wolf in a bunny costume. He almost got me again.
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