west59wy (http://west59wy.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "WELS Kingdom Workers Work-Righteousness":
The highlighted sentence drips of a proud, pietistic, boastful spirit that loves to pin awards on those who say they are "sharing the Word" while slamming those who, in their exalted view, aren't because they haven't enrolled in the latest evangelism training session, hung doorhangers, etc. Tell it to the widowed mother who is raising her difficult teenage sons, paying the bills by toiling at a thankless job, who comes home exhausted after she's punched out the clock, who maybe has a enough gas left in the tank to read a devotion before nodding off, and who manages to come to church but is not much "involved" beyond that. Calling her a "church watcher"? Her church is her home, her altar is her family, her font is her job! Making such artificial distinctions as that of "church workers and "church watchers" reminds one of the haughty Corinthian spirits who looked down on the apostle Paul because he didn't measure up to their pre-determined standards of what qualified for a real apostle and a fake one. Yet,God uses the lowly...
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GJ - I wonder what happened to the memory of the housemother, a poor widow, who raised a bunch of boys while doing menial labor. Her last name was Pieper. I suppose that is forgotten when WELS leaders slaver over such names as Drucker, Stetzer, Beeson, Stanley, Wagner, Hybel, and Sweet.
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Rev. Fr. Spencer has left a new comment on your post "Contra - The WELS KW Heretics":
As much as I appreciate some of the work of WKW in the past, especially the Builders for Christ, I'm afraid they have now been completely taken over by church growth nuts and fanatics. Their material simply drips of Pietism. And watch out, ladies, LWMS could easily head off in the same direction. Be vigilant!
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KJV Matthew 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
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As much as I appreciate some of the work of WKW in the past, especially the Builders for Christ, I'm afraid they have now been completely taken over by church growth nuts and fanatics. Their material simply drips of Pietism. And watch out, ladies, LWMS could easily head off in the same direction. Be vigilant!
Right, be a pew potato lest you are accused of being a proud, pietistic, boastful spirit.
Now you're showing your true colors...didn't take long.
In response to Pastor Spencer:
You are absolutely correct! Serving in Arizona, you have a birds-eye-view of the 'goings on' of the Kingdom Workers. Why would a Christ Centered person want to use this "what was intended to be a worthy program" to line his own pockets. It makes a mockery out of out-reach and mission work. Stroh went after these folks because it was one of he few programs not yet taken over by the CG crowd. Are any pastors or laymen writting letters of outrage?
LWMS is our 'ladies aid group.' We are helpers not heads. This new Womens Leadership Conference is in a partnership with Church and Change! There will not be any work completed if there are too many chiefs and not enough indians. God made head and helper. Scripture says that greed is the root of all evil. Yes we need WKW and LWMS; however, they need to be conducted in a God-pleasing manner!
In Christ,
from WELS church lady
What gives with the gobbledygook story about the widowed mother? Do we now decide doctrine based on emotional appeal rather than Scripture? That has to be a Mequon signature.
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