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Kelm, Paul Calvin, DMin - WLC - Milwaukee WI - 02/05/2010 - Campus Pastor
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Shevey, Rev Wayne A - St Peter - Appleton WI - 02/07/2010 - Associate Pastor
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GJ - Kelm, aged 65, turned down the Social Security call at Beautiful Savior, Green Bay, to create cell groups at WLC. And yet, he still has a home in Green Bay and a wife working full-time at Parlow's church. Green Bay is only 118 miles away, so he might commute.
I am sure he will perpetuate the fraud that he has an earned doctorate when a drive-by DMin is only an STM - at best. Have WELS members noticed how the Shrinker fraternity is loaded up with Schwaermer DMins - Steve Witte, Paul Kelm, Larry Olson, John Parlow, etc? The home and world missions people all shuffled off to Fuller, Willow Creek, and Trinity for training.
The WLC board, bottom-heavy with CrossWalk members, wanted for their second Shrinker chaplain:
1. Jeff Gunn.
2. Ski's pal Buske.
3. Paul Kelm.
I am sure some students trembled at the thought of Kelm turning down the job and Ski getting the call. Effectual prayers?
I don't know Wayne Shevey, but he would have to be a Fuller DMIN - yes, that studip - to accept a call to the Ski/Glende sandbox. This paves the way for Ski to be called when others turn down St. Peter Freedom - more often that the sheets at a cheap motel.
Meanwhile, Steve Witte, DMin, is visiting the area again, making presentations at various churches, including Beautiful Savior, where he was last.
Meanwhile, Deputy Doug is watching carefully that no false doctrine them beguile.
The entrance to the Schwan Library
was recently made wheelchair accessible,
just in time.
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Anonymous Church and Changer has left a new comment on your post "Elderly Pastor Accepts Call to Wisconsin Lutheran ...":
This is best news I've heard in a long time! Paul Kelm will be a great addition to WLC.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Elderly Pastor Accepts Call to Wisconsin Lutheran ...":
Not bad for someone who excels at copying and pasting. I hope he does not teach ethics at WLC.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Elderly Pastor Accepts Call to Wisconsin Lutheran ...":
The picture of the building with the wheelchair ramp is not that of the Schwan Library.
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GJ - Maybe it is the Larry Olson Institute for Church Growth.
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"Upside-down evangelism follows the path of least resistance to the God of gracious acceptance."
Paul Kelm,
The Evangelism Life Line (WELS), Fall, 1985 p. 5.
"It's just easier for many people to work backwards from the subjective to the objective in their thinking. In fact, upside-down evangelism may start with gospel and work back to law, stating the solution as a prelude to the problem and clarifying both at the cross." [This is Moravian Pietism, as shown by Walther's Law and Gospel.]
Paul Kelm,
The Evangelism Life Line (WELS), Fall, 1985 p. 5.
"Upside-down evangelism doesn't begin with personal sin and guilt, but rather with the consequences of sin. Societal consequences (for which each day's newspaper provides evidence) are the 'perceived need' door to understanding the alienation of life and people from God."
Paul Kelm,
The Evangelism Life Line (WELS), Fall, 1985 p. 5.
"Upside-down evangelism may begin with different diagnostic questions. What do you want out of life? lets the other person pick the path for witness. How do you feel about where our society is heading? uncovers fears and needs without becoming too personal. What makes people happy (or unhappy) do you think? allows someone to express preceived [sic] needs in the third person."
Paul Kelm,
The Evangelism Life Line (WELS), Fall, 1985 p. 5.
"Evangelism upside-down is starting with the subjective issues of perceived reality and working back to God's objective truths of ultimate reality - sin and grace. It's offering the attendant blessings of salvation as the 'hook' to gain an audience for God's plan of salvation." [felt needs used to sell the Gospel]
Paul Kelm,
The Evangelism Life Line (WELS), Fall, 1985 p. 4.
