Religion For Dummies - Still Popular in LCMS

Silent about false doctrine: The McCain-Barry legacy.

Here is the link - Steadfast Lutherans.

April 27, 2009

More Baptists informing Ablaze! by Mollie

So from Ed Stetzer’s Twitter feed, I learn that another Baptist will be meeting with Synodical leadership tomorrow. Here’s the, uh, tweet:

Dinner with Bob Roberts. Bob is speaking tomorrow to the same LCMS Lutheran group where I just spoke today. Nice surprise.

I’m sure these people are lovely, but I don’t get what Lutherans hope to learn from Southern Baptists.

Here’s some info on Bob Roberts and here’s his blog:

Dr. Bob Roberts, Jr., founding pastor of NorthWood Church, a fast-growing church near Dallas/Ft Worth, TX, is a leading practitioner and writer on glocal—local and global—transformation of individuals, churches, communities and nations. Roberts’ unique principles have transformed the people and ministry at NorthWood and its 80 (and counting) church plants and impacted “adopted” nations throughout the world. He is the founder of GlocalNet (Glocal.net), a network of like-minded leaders who are advancing a glocal church multiplication movement that connects the body of Christ worldwide.

I have no doubt that “advancing a glocal church multiplication movement” sounds impressive to Synod, Inc. I also think it sounds like a parody of church bureaucratese.

By Mollie

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GJ - Good golly, Miss Mollie. The Preus circle has discovered the errors of Church Shrinkage, perhaps a backwards salute to the program Robert Preus started at The Surrendered Fort. Kincaid got his DMin in Church Growth from Ft. Wayne, back in the 1980s. As Kincaid said, "It was all Church Growth." Robert Preus rescued Waldo Werning from oblivion, and Werning was later honored by Fuller for selling so many CG programs around Lutherdom. See the post below - Werning denied going to Fuller after admitting it.

To his credit, Robert Preus turned against CG and UOJ. However, the damage done to Ft. Wayne is now manifested in its love for ELCA, Seminex, and the Church of Rome.

I thought Stetzer was canceled in the LCMS, but apparently he kept that gig when Church and Change was forced to nix him. Did some of them creep away to hear him anyway? Stolen fruit is sweeter, the fool says in his heart.

Ichabodians will note that Church Growth has to change its buzzwords (how appropriate!) every few months. The new one is - Glocal.

Some fading buzzwords from The Hive are purpose-driven, Management By Objective, and contagious.

Current words to drop into conversation with the elite are:

1. Glocal.
   
2. Becoming Missional. BMers are overly fond of their movement.
   
3. Emerging Church or Emergent Church. It is wise to debate terms, so everyone keeps discussing a useless topic.
   
4. Multi-site. Expand offerings by sending digital files to other locations. Have the sheep sip sugared coffee on sanctuary couches while they sing "Am I a soldier of the cross?"
   
5. Blended worship. Clever leaders use this term to signal that they will dump all liturgical services as soon as they can drive away the stalwart members.
   
6. Vision. The more psychotic the leader is, the more he flails his followers with his vision. Own it. Worship it. Obey it.
   
7. Everyone a minister. This takes care of that pesky women's ordination issue. Anyone can administer the Means of Grace because Shrinkers reject any Biblical concept they cannot market.