Truth on the Scaffold

Not very smart or honest, the Changers are nevertheless persistent.

Nothing much is going to happen in WELS until people start openly applying the Word of God and the Confessions.

The Shrinkers spent WELS money to get their Church and Change organization going. They lost control of the Love Shack, but they still run Martin Luther College, Wisconsin Lutheran College, and the Sausage Factory in Mequon.

Like the unclean spirit, the Shrinker goes out and recruits more unclean spirits when he is expelled. Bruce Becker went to Jeske's LCMS media ministry, which is also the fetid womb of The CORE. Kelm went to WLC. Stroh got himself funded again. Wayne Mueller was un-elected and was replaced by Wayne Mueller. Finally Mueller quit and Jim Huebner, Fuller alumnus, replaced him as First VP.

Kelm would say, "Change I can believe in."

The Church and Changers have their annual get together -- remember Leonard Sweet? -- and no one has stopped them. Ex-SP Gurgle claimed he shut them down, but he was a member all along. The joke's on you WELS. And Rich Gurgle, his brother at the Sausage Factory, is another one.

And where did Gurgle land after his exile in a secure, undisclosed location? Patterson's Safari Center, furnished with a free vicar each year! Listen to this whopper of a lie - Patterson is not a Church and Changer, but he spoke at their convention, gathered a bunch of WELS workers for the Exponential pan-denominational fest, and traveled to the latest Changer convention. Patterson and the DPs support the Rock N Roll Church in Round Rock, made famous by its own blog.

In other words, these people are running circles around the typical WELS layman, pastor, and teacher:

1. The Changers have their own secret mailing lists, so they can network.

2. The Changers protect one another's jobs.

3. The Changers make no secret of what they represent and who is associated with them.

4. The Changers take turns beating up and expelling anyone who gets in their way or who even questions their precious agenda.


Tipping Point
I see WELS at the tipping point. The apostates are starting to feel the pain, but they escape to fight again (Kelm, Stroh, Becker). The duplicitous DPs in Wisconsin stand behind their apostate Boomer pals.

Some stay in the background (wink, wink) - like Kudu Don Patterson - and promote the cause relentlessly. Patterson is not that subtle, and he certainly howled when his actions and words got onto the Net. If it is sound doctrine, why be ashamed? If you are ashamed, Don, why are you doing it?

Other Shrinkers, like John Lawrenz, are in deep cover on the other side of the world. But when a Shrinker pioneer like Steve Witte, with a DMin from Buffalo Chip Divinity, gets a call, he gets an upgrade to full-time bureaucrat. Both men are working on your dollar, WELS members.

Power is not taken away but given up, as Stuckenberg taught in the 19th century. WELS members have given up their congregational power by being passive. The pastors and teachers have given up their influence by being silent.

The district conventions are a good time to expel flabby DPs and put in faithful men. The district conventions are an ideal opportunity to demand doctrinal reform, instead of waiting around for someone else to do it.

ELCA members let the Lavender Mafia control the agenda from 1987 to 2009. They are finally fighting and leaving, often without the pastor or the building. Now that they have seen the ugly backside of apostasy, literally and figuratively, they prefer the Gospel.

ELCA's Stan Olson started with endorsing joint communion with the Reformed and ended with gay liberation. Your future, too, WELS.

Where Is the Outrage?

Not another WELS program cloned from Fuller and Willow Creek!


WELS church lady has left a new comment on your post "Contra - The WELS KW Heretics":

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 writing letters of outrage?

LWMS is our 'ladies aid group.' We are helpers not heads. This new Women's 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

Stroh - German for straw. The Love Shack tried to build a foundation with hay, straw, and stubble, and it burned down. WELS members paid for this program of false doctrine, deceit, and unionism.

Why Is Faith Trampled by the UOJ Stormtroopers?

Forget that "must have faith as a child," kid. You were already forgiven. But to be really forgiven, you have to sign your name to Kokomo. Not the song. Look, if you only went to seminary and knew Greek like me, you would understand.

L P has left a new comment on your post "Justification by Faith Alone":

To the UOJers, faith is an idle thought. It does not produce new life. They hate it with utmost hatred.

Imagine, they hate the one whose author and finisher is Jesus.

LPC

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GJ - UOJ suffers from mission creep. Each generation wants to outdo the previous ones in making forgiveness without faith more radical.

KJV Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The fanatics are not studious, as they admit in weak moments. They simply repeat slogans.

Krauth pointed out the motto - "Young Calvinist, old Unitarian." We can update it with "Young UOJer, old atheist." I have already experienced that with WELS Shrinker pastors. Every UOJ advocate is well on his way to atheism, because Law and Gospel are both obliterated by their Enthusiasm.

Did you notice that the WELS Kingdom Worker message started with UOJ and finished with febrile Church Growthism?

Another side of this turning away from sound doctrine is weakness and apathy about the efficacy of the Word.

Once Isaiah 55 and many other similar passages are grasped, there is no problem with the Holy Spirit creating faith through the Word. Nor is there a moment's hesitation about the Real Presence and Consecration by the Word. Nor about baptismal regeneration.

KJV Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

KJV Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

KJV 1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

The Biblical emphasis upon faith is based upon the Holy Spirit's exclusive work through the Instruments of God's Grace - the Word and Sacraments. The Concordists understood this as well as Luther. The breakdown came after the era of Pietism, when the rationalism and emotionalism of Reformed doctrine crept into the Lutheran Church on little cat's feet.

Now we are cursed with the filter of Pietism's watery dogma whenever someone discusses justification by faith alone.

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