There must be a rotation set up, because the new comments started when the guy in Garland, Texas went silent.
Here is one:
TShinnick has left a new comment on your post "Church Growth Go Zunder":
So, St. Matthew's worship attendance is down three years in a row, and one family transfers to The Core and they're actively poaching members? Perhaps there are just some people at St. Matthew's that don't like some things about the church. I definitely know of more than one family that has transferred from St. Matthew's to another WELS congregation in the city. Does that mean that those congregations are actively poaching members? Of course not. It means that those people desire the truth of the Word of God without the aspects of St. Matthew's that they don't like. This sounds exactly like the mission of the Core...to provide people with the truth of God's Word without the barriers that might get in the way.
Beware, Zinders has a blog. But at least now he has some readers.
At Willow Creek Chapel, Madison, Wisconsin, this prophet unburdens himself:
I am glad Zimdars brought up What Would Jesus Do? That particular movement is associated with the novel, In His Steps, one of the best-selling novels of all time. The movement and the novel are the essence of Pietism.
I have never puzzled over whether Jesus would blog. As Luther wrote, He always used the Word. I dedicated the Bethany blog to sermons and quotations, and I see that those readers include people from all over the world, especially the Third World.
Ichabod is polemical and the purpose is clearly defined, yet people with problems in reading comprehension denounce me for explain how and why the glory has departed.
Zimdars needs to read the Scriptures with discernment. Jesus denounced false teachers as wolves in sheep's clothing. No less an authority than Steve Kurtzahn called your retired seminary president, Valleskey, the same thing.
Jesus' broadside against the Pharisees is recorded in Matthew. Someone with the same name should be more familiar with the contents of St. Matthew's Gospel.
The Enthusiasts want to be known as Bible Christians, but they delete large portions of the Scripture, such as calling false doctrine "cancer." Oooh, that's harsh. Paul told the law-mongers invading Galatia that they should keep on cutting, if they are so keen on circumcision. Gross and unloving? - probably, in the eyes of Matthew the Younger.
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And that Fox, Weathervane, or Wolf (Luther to George Major):
Fox Mulder has left a new comment on your post "More Satisfied Readers":
Pastor,
Here you beat around the bush and don't address his topic of your rudeness which you don't seem to think a problem. There is a difference between being stark, bold, and upright about the sins of others (if they are sins) and degrading people to nothing more than faces you can put in an "Icha-cat" picture. Especially rude is that you don't know most of these men. You may have met them, you may have corresponded, but these is no relationship there. If one existed then you would feel much worse about these such men, who love the Lord and people. You may argue that because they distort scripture they have no love for God, but they don't see it that way. Also, in your response to Matthew's comment you bring up a certain book which isn't good, but Matthew never asserted that he had read the book or even known about it. Please recognize the difference between frankness and rudeness and treat people with gentleness and respect.
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GJ - They say that dodging a bullet and living is quite a thrill, but can it compare to getting a string of anonymous nasty comments from someone promoting love? I wonder who else gets poison pen letters from Fox.
Clearly he identifies with the slain martyrs of Church and Chicanery. They seem to retain 100% employment, because the confessionals are not as ruthless as they are.
Someone wrote about Pope John the Malefactor extending the Left Foot of Fellowship to Rolf (not Rolph or Rolp) Preus, but His Holiness did that to several pastors and got himself banned from a number of ELS congregations.
No one has ever reached the nastiness, vengeance, and slander levels of WELS/ELS Chicaneries. I count Pope John as a holdover from the Wayne Mueller WELS presidency. (He still thought he was prez when Schroeder was elected.) The Chicaneries are incredibly foul and dishonest while yelping whenever someone gets close to the truth of their actions and words.
The Chicaneries have deprived many pastors of their livelihoods, simply because those pastors were faithful to the Word and the Confessions. The Chicaneries have done their deeds in the worst possible way: slanderously, sneakily, self-righteously.
Meanwhile, false teachers and adulterers (often the same, since they adulterate the Word and their marriages) are protected, defended, promoted, idolized, and held up as examples for others.
One WELS pastor asked some pointed questions, confronting Valleskey about CG deceit. Soon after, Valleskey threatened him. After that, the man was without a call, and he was not someone who could drop into any secular job. The Shrinkers do not want to remove someone permanently. They want to break him emotionally and financially, reduce him to crawling back, and hold him up as an example to those who might dissent from the Schwaermer line.
I do not apologize for knowing too much about how these thugs work. I have experienced and watched them in action. They are sniveling cowards who work in packs, anonymously, because not one can admit to what he really believes or disbelieves. They prance around direct questions so adroitly that they must take to heart this verse, "A soft dancer turneth away wrath."
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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "More Satisfied Readers":
Pastor Jackson,
It sounds to me like they are tag-teaming you. Don't they know the rules? Two guys on each side, only one wrestler from each side in the ring. I think that Luther once said something like - "I thank God for my adversaries". He sharpened his knives on them.
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GJ - Mr. Schultz, I am happy to expose the tactics of the Chicaneries for everyone to see. They are rude, crude, and immune to the rules of logic, grammar, and spelling. Almost every day I get comments with various crude insults - four letter words, body parts. One was so bad I sent it to only one person, so he could see how frightened the Chicaneries are.
My intuition is this - the older Chicaneries are having the young guys do their dirty work for them, manipulating them. "Oh, I wish I could say something to that blogger, but it's too risky right now." So the hotshot tries to make his bones so he can be included in the Mafia called Church and Change.
I heard the Chicaneries were forced to tell SP Schroeder everything they were doing, and they were not happy about it. The leaders can easily be determined from the Listserve comments and the conference attendance.
