Time of Generic Grace Update

These are Doug Engelbrecht's personal notes that he sends to Northern Wisconsin District pastors after each meeting:

Time of Grace has convinced the LC-MS to change the designation of Time of Grace from a RSO to a service organization that is recognized by the LC-MS. According to the information we have received from Time of Grace, there are specific exemptions for TOG, which would not have the normal expectations of an RSO, causing a violation of church fellowship principles. President Rutschow will continue to work with TOG to make sure that fellowship principles are not being violated by the endorsement of the LC-MS.

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GJ - Not exactly the Formula of Concord, is it?

Now if we can only turn Mark Jeske into a Lutheran, someone who no longer promotes that idiot Mark Driscoll.

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Update!

I have learned from several sources that nothing has been settled with Mark Jeske. The report above is considered misleading spin.


Jeske is expanding his market, due to a lack of funds from Schwan, Thrivent, and the  foundations.


Jeske is going to LCMS venues (their favorite term in Church and Change) to raise money. That means worshiping with them and agreeing with them, in congregations and district meetings. Jeske already participates in union services with Missouri and Habitat for Humanity.

Kingdom Workers and CrossWalk in Phoenix have both canceled Mark Jeske as a speaker. KW is having their confab in Phoenix. They lined up His Grace a year early, but the lay leadership wanted him off the menu - due to the current situation.

CrossWalk may have been encouraged. Everyone knows, anything goes, at CrossWalk.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Time of Generic Grace Update":

Damage control is pretty obvious in this sentence.

"Time of Grace has convinced the LC-MS to change the designation of Time of Grace from a RSO to a service organization that is recognized by the LC-MS."

RSO is an acronym for Recognized Service Organization. So - did we just hear that Time of Grace moved from a LCMS Recognized Service Organization to a service organization recognized by the LCMS? Huh?

The confessional factions of the LCMS must also cringe at the thought of Time of Grace being recognized as a service organization by the LCMS. Here's a little parlor game so you can cringe as well: 1) Drink a swig of beer every time you see a Gospel message in the October-December TOG messages (http://www.timeofgrace.org/recentmessage.php). 2) See how much beer remains in the first can when you finish reading.

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GJ - Two Nazarenes and a Mormon took the beer test mentioned above and stayed cold, dead sober.