This Gunn For Hire:Mene, Mene, Tekel, Awesome

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Top Gunn Shrinking":

Rumor also has it that WLC's campus pastor (Pastor Strobel) recently took a trip down to Crosswalk to find out what it was about. As apprehensive as he *claimed* he was before the visit, he sure did come away with a positive impression. He even described the experience as "Awesome".

I wonder if Strobel's trip down there was more than just a visit. Could have been a recruiting mission? Strobel has started a 'nontraditional' service at WLC on weeknights. Maybe they want to go into that new service with Gunns drawn.

A hopeful part of that rumor is that several of the theology faculty at WLC are strongly against the Babtist direction that *certain* individual's are following.

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GJ - Didn't the new WLC prez come from CrossWalk? Leviticus is clear about the dangers of inbreeding.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "This Gunn For Hire:Mene, Mene, Tekel, Awesome":

The new WLC Prez DID come from Crosswalk.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "This Gunn For Hire:Mene, Mene, Tekel, Awesome":

I see your crack research department is right on it again as usual. Johnson was principal at Arizona Lutheran Academy and was a member at Grace Glendale (WELS of course.
(sic - The crack teamleader of the Chicanery minders has not learned to use a second parenthesis.)

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GJ - Johnson probably had to be a member of Grace in Glendale because CrossWalk has never been a member of the Wisconsin Synod. I imagine that ALA required its principal to be a member of the WELS.

The post above asked whether Johnson was from CrossWalk, and that was confirmed. The language used suggests friendship with, affiliation with, cuddling with, but not necessarily membership in. We know Church and Chicaneries always tell the truth and never ShamWow their mistakes, don't we?

A typical Chicanery tactic is to argue a minor, irrelevant point to obscure the main issue. The WELS laity are is no longer falling for the scams.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Troubling Signs at The CORE":

CORE provides an excellent case study in everything that is wrong with WELS. Unfortunately WELS finds it almost impossible to learn from their mistakes because in their minds they don't make any.

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GJ -
WLC Faculty Profiles are here. Mark Braun, on the theology faculty, wrote in FIC The Northwestern Lutheran about "Effective Church Growth Principles," turning the Parable of the Sower into a Fuller catechism - "We hamper the kingdom if we sow carelessly...." No retraction has been recorded. An unrepentant Mark Braun gave a sermon at the 2007 Church and Chicanery political convention.

If you haven't already read it, Mark Braun's article in the most recent issue of CHARIS (how's this for a flagrant act of self promotion?) talks about this tension. His quote from Koehler's "Gezetslich..." is especially to the point. I've attached the link to the online version of the article. (Source - Church and Chicanery listserve)

http://www.charis.wlc.edu/publications/charis_fall03/braun.pdf

Dr. John E. Bauer
Executive Director, CHARIS
Wisconsin Lutheran College