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JS has left a new comment on your post "Applying the Efficacious Word - At Every Level":
Long time reader, first time commenter here. I love your blog and this post particularly. You stab the dagger at the Lutheran's point of vunerability: efficacy of the Word. Anything added to that is hogwash. I especially like that you put the NIV on your list.
I am an LCMS pastor who almost came over to WELS. The more I learned about her though, the more I saw in her a little sister of Missouri, struggling with CGM and losing. I appreciate your blog. keep it up please.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Applying the Efficacious Word - At Every Level":
Thank you, Rev. Jackson for this great post.
You're calling it like it is regarding Jeske and his ilk in both the WELS and the ELS.
Add to these folks the papers given at the Symposium on Congregational Health, last month. They start off talking about the Means of Grace, but they end up talking Church and Change garbage.
I wonder how many pastors in the WELS and the ELS will pump this garbage into their unsuspecting congregations.
Keep calling it like it is, Rev. Jackson.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Applying the Efficacious Word - At Every Level":
For the last 30-40 years, or longer, we in the WELS know no better - reformed is what we have been taught in our churches and schools. Over the last 10 years, a few of my friends have left the WELS ministry and all mentioned how a huge burden of law had been lifted - not Biblical law, but WELS law. It has been said that many in the WELS are afraid of leaving it because they have been brainwashed that by doing so they will end up in hell. Sounds Baptist. Good post. I thank my Lord every day for the faithful called pastors and teachers in the WELS who are striving to bring it back.
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DK has left a new comment on your post "Applying the Efficacious Word - At Every Level":
ROCK ON JACKSON!
Great post.
Keep it up and thank you.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Applying the Efficacious Word - At Every Level":
The least WELS management can do is to give members a reason to stay by cleaning house. Send Jeske and his ilk packing.
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GJ - I think Jeske has been packing for a long time. He just wants to take his whole crew with him, while reluctantly playing the victim, or perhaps the hero welcomed by far-sighted Kieschnick.
I. The Symposium by itself is not so alarming. But this should fill every WELS member and pastor with disgust and dread - The seminary obviously set up Paul Calvin Kelm as the leader of the Symposium, sending suggestions to the participants. The Fisher footnotes tell the tale, and The Sausage Factory was happy to post his Dreck.
II. Even worse - The Sausage Factory had Don Patterson and Kelm give papers on how to improve seminary education! The faculty has to be brain-dead to think either man has something to contribute to Lutheran education. Both examples show that Mequon is the problem.
