SP-in-Waiting in October FIC

Church and Change/Church Growth contributor count in the Reformation issue of FIC!
1. James Aderman, a founder of Church and Change.
2. Frosty Bivens, an alumnus of Fuller.
3. James Matek, WLCFS CEO, Patterson buddy.
4. Kudu Don Patterson, C and C leader, listserve Koolaid drinker.
5. John Braun, editor and enabler of these Shrinkers.

Shout out to Texas Church Lady - which one is the UOJ article? I cannot stand reading FIC  fluff more than a few seconds at a time. A WELS pastor recently admitted to a member that he only reads SP Schroeder's articles. Time to close it down and just send around the Fuller Church Growth Bulletin to keep the Schwaermer happy - much cheaper solution.

Not only hopscotch

As soon as he laid eyes on that verse, his mind was made up. He was convinced that God wanted him to stay right there and learn how to share his burdens with others. The Word of God held him there for me. After I arrived, we had a wonderful time sharing Scripture and praying together.

God helped James that day, and a school girl playing hopscotch was a key player in God’s plan. She could never have intended the consequence her sketchings would have. She was just playing hopscotch. But while she wrote out that verse, God was smiling as he thought of James standing there that evening. The apostle Paul described what happened that day. He wrote, “[Jesus] works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will” (Ephesians 1:11). James found that out, didn’t he? The artwork of a little girl led his troubled soul to Jesus.

I think about that hopscotch game a lot now. I wonder what unintended consequences will result from my “hopscotch” games. What blessings will God make of what I leave behind? What word spoken to a stranger through the gap between gas pumps or at the mall? What cell phone text shot off to a friend? What e-mail with embedded Scripture or spiritual thoughts will bounce around the world? From now on, I think I will plant a few more Bible verses in places where others can hear or read them.

I can’t wait to get to heaven and see how many great and wonderful unintended consequences Jesus made out of my life. How about you?

Children's sermon by contributing editor Kudu Don Patterson, pastor at Holy Word, Austin, Texas.

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GJ - Notice how the FIC editors are Church and Change leaders? Aderman is a founder of the Chicaneries, famous for shrinking his congregation and closing the school, and also serves as a FIC contributing editor. How convenient - for them. WELS pays money to promote Reformed doctrine - in the seminary and college, in FIC, in world missions, and in American missions. The mission counselors are paid to spread Church Growthism, open communion, unionism, etc. And why not? That is how they got their jobs in the first place.

The head of WELS technology is a Willow Creek disciple.