According to a member of St. Peter's in Freedom, The SORE has lost its lease to the movie theater and must move out.
The hilarity is only beginning. Another church outbid them for the lease. Apparently, the only thing accomplished by The SORE was stirring up the envy of another Emergent Church. The new church coveted that building, that popcorn machine, and...sob...those 20 sub-woofers. Let me take a moment to compose myself. There. I'm better now.
The member, who is an attorney, has a discordant note in his information. The SORE was supposed to remain separate from St. Peter's in Freedom. I find that claim rather odd. It had to be a lie from the start. Ski was listed on the staff of St. Peter in the WELS annual. That meant one congregation, several pastors.
Glende took three days to answer an email! He must have been organizing his Facebook albums. He has not been reworking his anonymous blog. Apart from creating a smokescreen for his pal Aaron Frey, he has not contributed to the blogosphere.
Once again, the Glende/Ski method is at work. They did a series of sermons together where they copied more cool stuff from the Net.
Glende and Ski want to make their morganatic marriage official now - merging the two operations into one, but keeping two locations. They have been more than a little obvious since the beginning.
The SORE is little more than a youth meeting of the local WELS congregations. They added one more WELS church to a small town that already had 20 WELS congregations - and they called it outreach!
Pastors like Jay Webber would like to distance themselves from debacles like this, but Glende and Webber have a Shrinker guru in common - Floyd Luther Stolzenburg. Webber was happy to have Kovaciny as the bagman collecting money for the Ukraine at Floyd's Masonic church. Notice how Floyd's teaching style is reflected in the teaching style of Tim Glende, claiming to learn something when it is really an alien thought being imposed on the unsuspecting sheep:
Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, teaching at St. Paul German village, where Glende grew up:
"We have discovered that the Early Church was an institution that unknowingly saw its world through Church Growth eyes. We have some benefits they did not have in that we can look back today and analyze their successes and failures."
Floyd Luther Stolzenburg,
"Church Growth - the Acts of the Apostles,"
GJ - Notice the direct assault against the efficacy of the Word? A Lutheran church would have tarred and feathered Floyd for that statement.
Tim Glende:
"We learned that the church is about more than just the building. Christians belong to Christ and to each other. The SORE’s building has never officially “belonged” to them. It was during this series, that Pastor Ski announced another church has put in an offer on the Big Picture [the movie theater where The SORE currently meets] … and that offer has been accepted… In the next few weeks Pastor Ski will be announcing where The SORE’s new home will be. Please understand that this does not mean that the ministry is ending, it only means that the building and location from which the ministry operates from will be changing."
The SORE is not the only movie theater, multi-church copycat of Emergent Church/New Age thinking. Randy Hunter has his Latte Church with couches, a female pastor, and a vicar. The First VP of WELS has a Soul Cafe and a long-standing love affair with Fuller Seminary. Ex-SP Gurgle is starting a multi-church and school site next to their own Rock N Roll mission. Chicago has a stealth mission full of felt-needs activities. FICKLE hails all these efforts and promotes the reputations of false teachers like Bivens, Aderman, Kelm, and Patterson. Those men would not be false teachers if they joined their real home for doctrine, The Mission Covenant Church. But in terms of Lutheran doctrine, they are not even up to the level of mild Lutheran.
