Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Randy Hunter Got A Vicar For Latte Lutheran Church...":
The manner in which you present Staff Minister of Worship Kristen Koepsell is incorrect. She is not a Rev. to the congregation. She preach (sic - don't go ghetto on us) to them nor does she tend to their spiritual welfare - that is the job of Rev. Hunter and Staff Minister Hochmuth. Check Kristen's job description here:
http://www.st-andrew-online.org/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=5563&sec_id=2361
St. Andrew is a great WELS congregation. Their Waunakee worship services are an excellent example of the 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 passages which close with these important words:
"...I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. 23I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
Rev. Kristen: "I say this with a full and complete understanding (and appreciation!) of the fact that the actual work is done by the Holy Spirit through the means of grace – but it is a great privilege and a great joy to be an instrument in ‘administering God’s grace’ in the form of worship gatherings."
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GJ - Funny how all the C and C cults have women staffers starting out: St. Andrews-by-the-Starbucks, Rock 'N Roll, Cross-Eyed in Phoenix. Does anyone wonder where all the money went?
The Chicaneries have been promoting women usurping authority and teaching men (the real issues from 1 Timothy) for many years.
No surprise that the Odd Couple of C and C - Kathie Wendland and Rich Gurgel - produced the latest iteration of what the liberals can get away with - Heirs Together. No surprise either that they chose the same title as Richard Stadler's ground-breaking essay, which was nicknamed Errorists Together.
Notice the Staff Minister - another gift from Larry Oh! - "Our Staff Infection" - using insights from feminist Fuller Seminary, where he got his drive-by DMin.
And now a vicar too? Oh, the hidebound, rigidly orthodox DPs have stretched forth their consecrated and consecrating hands on this overly-caffeinated bunch.
Grounds for impeachment, if you get my pun.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Rev. Kristen Administers the Means of Grace":
She doesn't say she administers God's grace in the form of worship gatherings. She calls herself "an instrument in administering God's grace in the form of worship gatherings." The person who types up the worship folder or plays the organ could also be called an instrument.
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GJ - There have been two Amens! to the Latte Easy Chair Church. One was the puff piece in FIC, the magazine serving as an expensive instrument of propaganda for Church and Change, but paid from the synod budget. The second Amen! comes from the COP giving Latte a vicar when others were refused.
Left unsaid in the comment directly above is exactly what Rev. Kristen does when she uses the language, the very words of pastoral ministry. But we have all learned from Fuller Seminary and its victims that "everyone is a minister."
