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Rev. Mark Jeske, double-linked on the official WELS website, spoke to the Southeastern LCMS Disrict in June.
Let me be blunt for a change - Jeske is moving on with his life, following Dan Kelm and others in joining the Missouri Synod.
He recently spoke at the LCMS college in Mequon. I heard that The Sausage Factory faculty woke up from their slumber and yelled "Hey!" about that.
Some call this sheepdipping. He needs some credibility before joining and probably wants to test the waters, to see if he is welcome.
Jeske's departure implies the leadership of Church and Change departing. Three bored-of-Lutheran-doctrine members are current or former Jeske employees. Other nodes of the Jeske Chicanery network are - the Kudu Don Patterson Safari Team and the Parlow Fox Valley Consortium. However, such departures are often unpredictable, with some staying and others going.
PS - Jump, jump, jump!
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So long, Jeske.
It's about time.
Good riddance.
Good bye Mark Jeske
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCnkAMfl5c
What are you talking about?
I see no evidence of Mark Jeske leaving the WELS or St. Marcus.
What a a weird thing to say, with no evidence. Especially since the others who commented didn't look into the validity of your statement and just assumed it to be true.
I think it'd be great if Jeske bailed but it ain't happening. You write fiction.
The validity of the statements are true. Jeske did give a presentation at an LCMS college. Jeske did give a report to the LCMS southeast district convention. Jeske did suck down the Thrivent provided suds at the convention after party.
However, I don't necessarily think Jeske is looking to move out of the WELS. Jeske is a rule-breaker, his term. He wants to see how far he can push the WELS, and he is waiting to see if they will push back.
For those of you that live in that socialist h-e-double-toothpicks of Milwaukee, I can only suggest scrounging up all of your neighborhood dog piles of steaming reward for Jeske's front stoop.
Let him jump up and down and stammer about such insolence and poor behavior. But he would then be forever known in LCMS as the pastor that was chased out of WELS with parting gift of piles of manure, not palm branches.
Poo would be funny, but ineffective. He'd forever talk (with a long introspective face) about how he had to shake the dust off his feet.
I vote for just burnin the m_____f_____r's house to the ground "yo".
His dad's nickname was Jumpin' Jack. Maybe Mark's jumpin' now too. To Missouri? Not impossible.
But I am not convinced.
It may be true that Jeske spoke at Concordia, Mequon and at an LCMS convention. However, WELS has made it a practice of having outside speakers come to them at Little Valpo (WLC), the "Worship Made Difficult" convocations, and the like. The DPs have okayed it (as long as they don't worship and pray together, which, of course, some of the outsiders have done). So it should not surprise us that some of the WELS luminaries (face it, there aren't too many) will speak at other "church" gatherings. I feel another "special study" coming on within the COP. Oh no! What shall we do?
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