The 82-year-old retired Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland has come out of the closet and announced to the world that he is gay. The former Archbishop was the head of the Milwaukee archdiocese seven years ago and stepped down after an scandal involving another man. In his upcoming memoir, he will express that he is gay. Source
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GJ - The ELCA has made ecumenism with the Church of Rome a priority, holding joint religious exercises with Roman Catholic leaders and bragging about it.
Wisconsin Lutheran College featured Archbishop Weakland, pictured above, as a speaker at their college, along with some of his priests, and bragged about it, and then provided a cover story to deny it.
The Bethany Lutheran Seminary faculty marched in procession with a former Roman Catholic bishop, holding a religious dedication service where this Roman Catholic was the featured speaker. They bragged about it in the Mankato Free Press and later denied it. [Denouncing was not omitted. ELS Pastor Rolf Preus denounced me for discussing the well publicized facts.]
The Wisconsin Synod and the Little Sect on the Prairie have something called "fellowship principles." That means they posture about fellowship, preen themselves as they look down on ELCA's unionism, and lie about doing the same things as ELCA.
Nota bene: Paul Calvin Kelm will glide into his new job at Wisconsin Lutheran College, protected and promoted as before, even though he has repeatedly demonstrated a heartfelt pleasure and love for false doctrine. Doctrine divides the sheep from the goats. Kelm is sincerely inclined and anxious to advance, that disunity according to his utmost power.
Will the Doctrinal Pussycats of Wisconsin do anything? No. Will Pope John the Malefactor, whose hobnailed boot is ever poised to strike a blow against doctrinal turpitude? No. Will the WELS/ELS boards of doctrine, who could only issue a milquetoast moratorium concerning women consecrating the elements of Holy Communion? No. Will the circuit pastors wield the Sword of the Spirit, the Word? No. Will the pastors and laity, unfettered by the unspoken rules of synod politics? No.
WELS is still determined to scatter and slaughter the flock. But your dollars will make all the difference in reaching the lost with the pure Word of God.
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Norman Teigen has left a new comment on your post "WELS/ELS-ELCA Differences":
Welll, GJ, you've fired a salvo of artillery pieces and I am not entirely sure that I know what the target is. In the military it's called time-on-target. That means that a whole bunch of artillery pieces in various locations are fired sequentially so that all of the shells will arrive at the same time on the same target. The effect is devastating.
I feel like someone who has just experienced such a time-on-target demonstration. I think that the post had something to do with Fellowship but my ears and ringing and my head is spinning and I cant figure out what you had in mind when you wrote.
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brett-meyer (http://brett-meyer.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "WELS/ELS-ELCA Differences":
Pastor Jackson wrote, "Will the Doctrinal Pussycats of Wisconsin do anything? No. Will Pope John the Malefactor, whose hobnailed boot is ever poised to strike a blow against doctrinal turpitude? No. Will the WELS/ELS boards of doctrine, who could only issue a milquetoast moratorium concerning women consecrating the elements of Holy Communion? No. Will the circuit pastors wield the Sword of the Spirit, the Word? No. Will the pastors and laity, unfettered by the unspoken rules of synod politics? No."
A fine piece of tragic poetry. But I can hear the wailing and crying now...wait...what are they saying?...Ah, yes. They are upset because you left out an important, in fact the most important, line: In the end they all had a heart for Christ. And lived happily ever after.
Revelations 18:2-3, "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies."
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GJ - I will translate for Norman. He mentioned Time on Target, which is tool America used to defeat the Germans in WWII. The Germans would get a counter-attack ready and we would lob so many artillery shells on them that they could not even start.
Many people in leadership positions do not appreciate the increasing level of disgust in their own synods.
The old Synodical Conference partners (LCMS, WELS, ELS) still emphasize their opposition to unionism. That was the start of the LCMS, the awakening of the Wisconsin Synod, and the birth of the ELS.
Put very simply, one does not engage in religious exercises with those of another confession, especially the extreme apostates, represented today by the Roman Catholics and ELCA.
In fact, the Left Foot of Fellowship is reserved only for those who question the infallibility of Holy Mother Synod. The old Synodical Conference partners are bedfellows with Rome, Fuller Creek, and a business called Thrivent. They are not even secretive about it. They brag about it, promote those who share their doctrinal perversions, and knock only those who peak from their rabbit-warrens and say, "Izat right, what we're doing here?"
I could add the micro-mini sects to this list, who are no different.
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What Romanists could not do during the Reformation by killing God's saints they are now doing with a touchy feely ecumanism. The goal is the same, get people to kiss the Pope's purple slippers.
http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/PopeKissing_Feet.JPG/250px-PopeKissing_Feet.JPG
Welll, GJ, you've fired a salvo of artillery pieces and I am not entirely sure that I know what the target is. In the military it's called time-on-target. That means that a whole bunch of artillery pieces in various locations are fired sequentially so that all of the shells will arrive at the same time on the same target. The effect is devastating.
I feel like someone who has just experienced such a time-on-target demonstration. I think that the post had something to do with Fellowship but my ears and ringing and my head is spinning and I cant figure out what you had in mind when you wrote.
Pastor Jackson wrote, "Will the Doctrinal Pussycats of Wisconsin do anything? No. Will Pope John the Malefactor, whose hobnailed boot is ever poised to strike a blow against doctrinal turpitude? No. Will the WELS/ELS boards of doctrine, who could only issue a milquetoast moratorium concerning women consecrating the elements of Holy Communion? No. Will the circuit pastors wield the Sword of the Spirit, the Word? No. Will the pastors and laity, unfettered by the unspoken rules of synod politics? No."
A fine piece of tragic poetry. But I can hear the wailing and crying now...wait...what are they saying?...Ah, yes. They are upset because you left out an important, in fact the most important, line: In the end they all had a heart for Christ. And lived happily ever after.
Revelations 18:2-3, "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies."
Norm Tiegen is always looking for a formal dispassionate, organized paper on some theological subject or news, but this is an informal blog allowing Dr. Jackson to both inform and vent while he produces the formal papers that Norms looking for.
Dr. Jackson wrote: "In fact, the Left Foot of Fellowship is reserved only for those who question the infallibility of Holy Mother Synod."
Dr. Jackson is under the false impression that the Midwest-based synods are meant to be microcosms of the Church where doctrinal matters are seriously discussed, and not aborted early on by kicking out the voices of dissent (aka given the Joseph treatment). In fact, the synods are only microcosms of closed shops in non-Right to Work states. In such states, a condition of employment may be that an employee must be a union member. What this means in practice is that if someone is kicked out of the union for, say, reporting serious safety violations, which the union members see only as backstabbing, that conscientious person ends up being fired for not belonging to a union. Going through initiation at Northwestern and GA at the Mequon Sem was similar to joining the union. Anyone who complained or didn't go through initiation was weeded out--hence a closed shop.
Believe it or not, "folk etymology" contributed to how this sorry situation came about in the synods, which fact I found out from being on the inside of two such synods. Here's the scoop.
The term synod comes from the Greek NT's "sunedrion". The term only came into use in the Western church in the late 14C. In the 19th C or early 20th C, an idiot in one of the Midwest synods found out that "synod" came from the Greek roots meaning "walking together." Not knowing that etymology is more of a curiosity rather than something that is meant to define the word, from that point on the standard definition of the word "synod" in the Midwest synods was not derived from actual usage in history and scripture, but became "walking together." Hence, if you Google "walking together" and synod, you'll find thousands of pages littering the internet relating to the WELS, ELS, LCMS, and even the ELCA. In fact, this bit of balderdash is even repeated by the Concordia Historical Institute (CHI) for whom I once worked part-time a while ago (see link and excerpt below).
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So because of this folk etymology of synod, voices of dissent, minority views, truth-tellers, and those who don't play the part of the "weak Christian" and suffer in silence, are quickly dealt with because they are not "walking together" in harmony with everyone else, and therefore by definition don't even belong in the synod. Never mind that the synod is supposed to be a microcosm of the Church, and these matters are supposed to be resolved through lengthy debate a la Act 15.
I'm not sure when the folk etymology caught on, but it seems as though it was before the 1920s Protes'tant Controversy, because those pastors were quickly expelled, not over false doctrine, but over a difference in philosophy, i.e., they weren't walking together in harmony.
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Right to Work Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
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Protes'tant Conference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protes'tant_Conference
Excerpt: In his paper, Pastor Beitz discussed the current doctrinal philosophy then prevalent in the synod.
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http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=synod
synod
late 14c., "ecclesiastical council," from L.L. synodus, from Gk. synodos "assembly, meeting, conjunction of planets," from syn- "together" + hodos "a going, a way" (see cede). Used by Presbyterians for "assembly of ministers and other elders" from 1593 to c.1920, when replaced by General Council.
Folk Etymology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_etymology
http://chi.lcms.org/lcms/synod150.htm
excerpt: And that is the meaning of “synod”—walking together and at the same time going somewhere
Thanks for the clarification. Time-on-target is still a part of official Army doctrine. Yes, the Army, too, has doctrine. It might be, now that you mention the German Wehrmacht of WW II, that we learned the tactic from the Krauts. Or, maybe we learned it from the French. The French did well with artillery during WW I.
I think that you are right that there is discontent among the occupiers of the pews. I know that people in the ELS are still smarting over the lingering hangover from the Church and Ministry debacle of a few years past.
Several people whom I know have suggested that it might be a good time for the incumbent President to voluntarily step down because of his heavy involvement in the action. Others say that this is unlikely to occur because incumbency usually brings re-election. The last ELS President served longer than any Pope in the history of the Roman Catholic church.
Norman Teigen
ELS layman and
official spokesman for the ELS in just about everything that anybody wants to know
Sorry for not commenting yesterday. Those "WELS Tones" kind of grew on me! I'll tell ya what, the WLS choir will be doing some gigs. I have been invited to see the performance and I do not want to see hair styles like that of the three gentlemen.
Poor Norman! Did Pastor GJ raise some doctrinal issues concerning the ELS? (Pastor Jackson discussing doctrine....WEll I NEVER!) Shocking is what it is. My pastor has stated many times that if another church body, rather it be Lutheran or other, wants to sit down-and-talk, then the first question MUST be, "Do you believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word OF God?" If no, then WELS says then we can't talk. If yes, then the two can have a discussion.
But hey, did somebody say "Thrivent?" I thought so. Norman might be shell-shocked but the church lady is confused.
In Christ,
from WELS church lady
What's ironic about the ELS, WELS and LCMS kicking out dissenters too quickly is nothing really has been resolved, and now with the internet it's going to all come back after a century and a half: the slavery issue, election, UOJ, receptionalism, etc.
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