Self-Induced Amnesia

Self-induced amnesia means that George Christian Knapp is no longer on the Syn Conference radar scope.

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Pr. GJ,

Matthew Harrison's book leaves out the most important LCMS father,
George Christian Knapp.

We call this self-induced amnesia.

LPC

Syn Conference Caught Knapping - Origin of Missouri's Enthusiasm, WELS Cloning, ELS Me-Tooism

Matthew Harrison's book leaves out the most important LCMS father,
George Christian Knapp.

Halle University is the Rosetta Stone of Lutheran history in America. The school was founded in 1694 to promote Spener's Pietism, in an era where Biblical studies were neglected. Spener's influence was unionistic because his ideas came from Labadie, the Reformed churchman who had been a Roman Catholic. Anyone familiar with the emotional intensity of Roman Catholic small group piety can see why this phenomenon came to the Lutheran Church via Pietism.

Like the other Lutheran leaders in America, Walther was a Pietist. I doubt whether people saw that as a denominational difference. Many Syn Conference leaders today think they are fine Lutherans, even though their favorite schools are Fuller, Willow Creek, Trinity Divinity, and Gorden Conwell. They bristle at any criticism of Church Growth, but mouth the right platitudes about Reformed doctrine. Like Spener, they are union theologians, or at least unionists.

Knapp (1753 – 1825) was the last believing theologian of Halle, and he was considered a fossil of Pietism once the school had turned rationalistic. Tholuck, who was Adolph Hoenecke's mentor at Halle, was a Universalist.

Knapp, as shown in this link, created the concept of double justification, and the English definition (OJ and SJ) was penned by his equally famous (in America) translator - Leonard Woods.

Knapp began lecturing on this book in 1789, the year our Constitution was ratified. The Woods translation was published in 1831.

Note these words about the fame of Woods and his translation:

Leonard Woods (1807-1878), was born in West Newbury, Mass., on the 24th of November 1807, and graduated at Union College in 1827 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1830. His translation of Georg Christian Knapp's Christian Theology (1831-1833) was long used as a text-book in American theological seminaries.

And see this link about Woods and Bowdoin College.

Walther did not land in America until 1839.

According to the UOJ Stormtroopers, their fantastic formulation--universal grace without the Means of Grace--is Biblical, Lutheran, and ancient. They have to admit that all their favorite terms are really quite new.

Of course the terms OJ and SJ are new - they came from the work of Knapp and the translation of Woods. One can find in the English translation of F. Pieper the same wording used in Woods' translator note, which was published to explain the verbosity of Knapp in a few words.

1789 - Knapp lectures completed.

1831 - English translation of Knapp - used throughout the 19th century in all denominations and still in print today.

Lectures on Christian Theology, p. 318.

1833 - in English!

By Georg Christian Knapp (Halle University), trans. Leonard Woods.

Translator's note• [This is very conveniently expressed by the terms objective and subjective justification. Objective justification is the act of God, by which he proffers pardon to all through Christ; subjective is the act of man, by which he accepts the pardon freely offered in the gospel. The former is universal, the latter not.]

1839 - Walther landed in New Orleans with the Stephan group.

1924 - F. Pieper's Dogmatics completed.

1932 - Brief Confession of the LCMS, 1932, canonized UOJ.

1953 - F. Pieper's Dogmatics translated into English.

1987 - Justification Theses of the LCMS mixed up OJ and SJ into one foul stew.

1997 - Robert Preus repudiated UOJ in Justification and Rome.

The term General Justification (same as UOJ) was used by Burk, who was also a Pietist. He was the son-in-law and close collaborator of Bengel. Hoenecke quoted Burk favorably but did not get into a UOJ fever. Hoenecke studied under Tholuck (Halle), and Tholuck followed Knapp. At this point I would find it schocking if Hoenecke did not mention this concept in his book.

The terms used--OJ, UOJ, GJ--have been understood as representing the universality of the Atonement. However, the core of UOJ is something apart from the Atonement. UOJ means that God has declared every single person absolved of sin. Therefore, everyone in Hell has the status of guilt-free saints.

The Syn Conference, by neglecting the efficacy of the Word, fell into a subtle form of Enthusiasm, its toxins masked by the apparent upholding of the Word and Sacraments. The Syn Conference has been caught knapping.

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One can tell right away what the main issue of Harrison's synodical presidency will be. The LCMS et al, and especially Rev Rolph Preus, will have to go through a five-step Kübler-Ross process to deal with Walther's knapping. Of course, with alcohol abuse so rampant in the Midwest, some will have to go through a 17-step process: first the 12-step AA program, and then the Kübler-Ross steps: 1. Denial and Isolation. 2. Anger. 3. Bargaining. 4. Depression. 5. Acceptance.

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GJ - So far they refuse to deal with the concrete evidence of UOJ being kelmed from Knapp by the Conference. I imagine, based upon unwarranted optimism, that someone at a seminary will discover the facts in about 20 years. Few will accept that unless a Synodical expert says so.

Baseball Brings a Family Together

Someone wrote:

Dear Gregory,
In Dec. 2009 you wrote a blog post entitled WELS - The CORE - Features Movies for Advent which was spot on. I enjoyed it.

Today, I was on Twitter and read a couple of Mariqueen Maandig's tweets and she is blatant in her satanism. Please see [omitted].

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GJ - I read the recent MQ Tweets. The latest featured an ultra-violent, bloody, gory scene in which there are several dead or dying people. MQ seems to be consumed in flames as she continues to mouth words. She has a bullet wound in her head. A big pool of blood is on the floor, near a man who is apparently dead. This must be her new video, on pitchfork.com.

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Wisconsin Timber Rattlers score big with families with Kids Crew

Ski Skorzewski and his family love baseball. "There's nothing like baseball" Skorzewski said.

"There's nothing like baseball" Skorzewski said.

When they lived in Milwaukee, they regularly attended Brewers games. So when they moved to Appleton two years ago, one of the first things they did was purchase season tickets to the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, which plays at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute.

Baseball is a great family activity, Skorzewski said.

"We spend a lot of time at the park," he said, noting that his family, which includes 12- and 10-year-old daughters and a 3-year-old son, is also hosting a player. "We really feel like the ballpark is our home."

The Skorzewskis have more reasons this season to feel a part of the team, thanks to the Timer Rattlers Kids Crew, a program geared toward kids ages 12 and under.

"It was created specifically for our younger fans that enjoy coming out to the ballpark," group sales representative Dayna Haddock said.

For a $20 yearly membership fee, kids can get an official Kids Crew backpack, membership card with lanyard, 10 free tickets to every Wednesday home game, a monthly e-newsletter from Fang, discount to the Snake Pit Team Store, exclusive invitation to Fang's Birthday in July, an opportunity to be the Kids Crew Lineup Card Kid and an opportunity to attend a pizza party or ice cream party with Fang and Timber Rattlers players.

"The Kids Crew was created to give young fans unique opportunities that most fans do not get a chance to experience," said Sarah Heth, director of corporate marketing and community relations.

The kids enjoy wearing their lanyards like the game day staff, Heth said.

"The kids seem to get a real kick out of looking official," she said. "We have seen a lot being worn around the ballpark … already."

Membership in the club is expected to grow once school is out, Haddock said.

"I think the response thus far is great," she said. "I believe we will get a lot more kids signed up when school is out for the summer and the weather gets a little warmer."

Skorzewski enrolled his two girls because it allows them to see more games with their own tickets.

"I think it's a good deal," he said. "It allows them to interact with other kids. It allows them to manage their passes. They know they have a certain amount of tickets."

Jen Foucault of Neenah is excited her children can participate in the Kids Crew.

"My husband and I both grew up in the Milwaukee area and as kids were both members of the Brewer Pepsi Fan Club for many years," the mother of a 7-year-old and 5-year-old twins said. "We both went to many games as kids and still remember going with our parents and siblings. Now the Rattlers have a similar program, and we hope our kids will also have the same great baseball memories that we do."

The Foucault family also enjoys baseball and love the Kids Crew package.

"It is a lot less expensive to take a family to a Rattler game than a Brewer game and even more of a value now with the kids club," she said. "Any unused tickets can be traded in for a grass seat for any game. You can't go wrong. Most are day games, and my oldest son is in school for a few, but I can still bring my 5-year-old twins, even if it's only for a few hours."

Haddock said Timber Rattlers games are great for families.

"We try to make it very affordable for families to enjoy a night out," she said.

The games are ideal for both baseball fans and non-baseball fans, she added.

"We provide in-game entertainment and also provide entertainment in other areas," Haddock said.

The most popular family day is Fridays, where kids 12 and under eat free, kids run the bases post-game and families can enjoy fireworks beginning June 11.

There are many changes at Time Warner Cable Field this year, including a new beach area, Haddock said.

"This is a great area for kids to bring their beach toys and play in the sand," she said, noting that the beach area is located in right field and "is a great place for families to play and still enjoy a great view of the game."

There are also more box seats and a new all-you-can-eat area. Inflatables have been added to the kid zone as well as a new jungle gym, Haddock said.

Families also can get involved with birthday party packages, special activities and game days.

Two free baseball camps will be available in June and August for kids ages 7 to 14. Reggy, the Purple Party Dude, a traveling mascot, will be at the Timber Rattlers games being held at Miller Park on May 7 and at Time Warner Cable Field on May 8 and 9. On June 25, the stadium will host its second annual peanut-free night.

"We will clear the ballpark of all peanut, peanut-dust products and give those fans with a peanut allergy a chance to enjoy a game without worry," said Haddock, noting that other activities that night include a Webkinz giveaway, an autograph signing by Iron Man and a fireworks show.

Fang celebrates his birthday July 16 with a bunch of his mascot friends. Star Wars characters will be in attendance June 12, and Spiderman will appear Aug. 6.

Starting June 11, fireworks will take place every Friday and Saturday night immediately following the game.

"I think the affordable prices and the fun atmosphere is the main factor in bringing families back season after season," Haddock said.

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At Home with Knapp and the Missouri Fathers

Someone added Knapp to the cover of future SP Harrison's book.

I have to apologize to Paul Calvin Kelm for writing as if he invented kelming, the verbatim copying of material from false teachers without a citation. CFW Walther and F. Pieper kelmed double-justification from Halle professor Knapp.

For many decades, Syn Conference leaders have acted as if OJ, SJ, and UOJ were embedded in the Scriptures and the Confessions. The language of SJ/OJ comes from the English edition of Knapp, which was used in German and English in America and Germany. The book is still in print today, although it preceded the formation of the old Missouri Synod by years.

The Syn Conference has been caught knapping.

El Doughnut

ELDONA is a sect without a cause, very much like the CLC (sic).

The micro-mini sect with the huge name, ELDONA, is now in fellowship with the nano-sect called ACLC. The ACLC left the Little Sect on the Prairie, with Rolf Preus, but a disagreement over criticizing the LCMS led Rolf to quit their group.

The ACLC has about three congregations. Rolf has has three congregations, but I do not think he is considered multi-site.

Now that the LCMS presidency is Matt Harrison's to lose, I wonder about the future of ELDONA, based upon its opposition to SP Kieschnick. An evangelism call would start out, "Do you remember Yankee Stadium and DP Benke? Kieschnick? No? I guess we have nothing to discuss."

ELDONA is becoming ELDO-NOT, hence my pun in the headline.

Sweden Honors the Founder of Church Growth

The Clergy Liars' Club in WELS - Tutored by Their Father Below

I kelmed Limmer's concept, which he kelmed from the Babtists. Fair? Fair.

Scott E. Jungen has left a new comment on your post "Variations on a Theme by Beelzebub":

What, you don't believe it was a terrible steak knife accident in bed? I didn't believe it thirty years ago, and I believe a jury didn't either!
Pray the small ground swell of the WELS may grow larger and sweep out the false teachers and money changers. Then we can get back to the work of preaching the Word instead of building buildings and programs.

Pastor Jackson, keep up the good work.

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GJ - Scott is referring to Al Just's defense, that his late wife rolled over a steak knife in bed, inflicting dozens of wounds, in her sleep.

First VP Jim Huebner's father came to Phoenix to help defend good ol' Al. So did a busload or two of brain-washed WELS members. I wonder if God curses those institutions which deceive people about adultery and murder. Mary Lou College is perishing from a lack of repentance and shameless false teaching.

A jury of his peers convicted Al Just of murder, but he got out of the hoosegow in a few years. While in prison he married his children's baby-sitter, who subsequently divorced him. He claimed innocence and some clergy still beat the drums about his persecution - but he did confess all to someone. That gets forgotten.

Al Just taught at the Arizona Lutheran Academy of WELS, where CrossWalk meets.

Another WELS worker who went to the Big House was DP Ed Werner, for assaulting minor girls in his own congregation.

Did you read about them or the imprisoned vicar in NWL/FIC? No, the magazine is reserved for rave reviews of Shrinker experiments, which look alarmingly like Babtist New Age clones.

You will never read about their colossal Shrinker failures, the millions wasted, the members alienated, and the clergy leaving for Pentecostalism and atheism.

I would love to see a budget printed up for The CORE, and notes from meetings about how that disaster was hatched under the watchful eye of Deputy Doug Englebrecht.

Does God bless church workers who deceive people about their confession of faith? The Shrinkers pretend to be Babtists to the Babtists and Lutheran to the Lutherans, so they grovel in their deceit toward both sides at once.

Has WELS benefited from lying about the two murders committed by their own church workers? Did Team Mischke explain to the members of Salem, Milwaukee that WELS knew from the beginning that Tabor had wanderlust in the LCR and was known for adding an extra baby to his own congregation, through birth and baptismal regeneration. That was all known before WELS gave Tabor a mission congregation to start with members he took out of Scriptural, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I have been there, too.

I know from many sources that WELS knew all about Tabor before they inflicted him on their unsuspecting members. And they called him to Milwaukee after his mission disaster in Cape, which closed soon after. But they also moved him to Escanaba after the murder of his wife. Three divine calls were given to a man who entered WELS racing ahead of shotguns, pitchforks, and other weapons.

Did they learn anything from Tabor? No. They inflicted Floyd Luther Stolzenburg on Columbus, lying to everyone again.

Did Jay Webber learn anything from being at Scriptural, his first call? Apparently not, because he was willing to work with Shrinkers Kovaciny and Stolzenburg to raise money in the Ukraine. Floyd had a Scriptural divorce, he claimed. WELS workers echoed his lie. Do you see the irony? Jay Webber, from Scriptural Lutheran Church, worked with a man who falsely claimed a Scriptural divorce. Tabor's Scriptural divorce was instant and inexpensive.

I imagine Pope John the Malefactor said about Webber, "That's the kind of man we need on the ELS doctrinal committee, someone who can take a stand and abandon it with dexterity."

Faith in Moline Likes My Photoshop, But the Bishop Does Not

Illinois ELCA bishop.

I was grieved to learn that a member of Faith Lutheran Church, Moline, my hometown, accidentally sent my Photoshop/Despair.com poster to the bishop's office.

The grief I experienced came from my realization that it was accidental. They should have dispatched it right away, on purpose, to drive home a point. That is the purpose of my ceaseless efforts against apostasy.

One of the evils of ELCA's dance with the Lavender Mafia is the overwhelming feeling of superiority felt by other denominations. The other groups can cluck their tongues and point at ELCA when they should be cleaning out their own stables.

Below are photos posted at ELCA's websty, about their 2009 convention. Their photos identify Goodsoil.org as a "group working for change," a caption so misleading that it transcends the boundaries of deception. The bishop of Illinois works for the sodomites. He wants to grab land, title, and name from the faithful, to perpetuate his personal dynasty of terror - with the emphasis on nasty.

Rainbow stoles signify Lavender Mafia members and useful idiots helping them. They were abundant at the 2009 convention, where the tornado struck next door.

Sweden Produces Inspirational Film

The intro is long, but worth the wait.

Variations on a Theme by Beelzebub

Management by Objective: kill the story by trashing the source.

Two people, who do not know each other, said the same thing. They have checked out my facts independently and found them to be true. In contrast, WELS has repeated the same falsehoods, verbatim, in stories that are obvious cover-ups or attempts to discredit any source that knows how corrupt the leaders have been.

Some may argue that all denominations engage in similar cover-ups, but that does not get at the extent and organization of the criminal enterprise in WELS. Some glimmerings include the disappearance of the Schwan money and the evaporation of the designated funds. I am no accountant, but I recall an $8 million figure vanishing and the Mary Lou Chapel funded but not built. Did the Love Shack drones spend the money on their own projects while robbing the chapel account? That humble house of God in New Ulm cost $8 million.

When SP Schroeder was elected instead of the designated driver Jahnke, the synod installed financial controls to track the money. The sinking ship righted itself in spite of a disastrous economy. It was almost as if Mama sewed a hole in that pocket that the money kept burning through.

Failed ex-SP Gurgle is now in Texas, working with Kudu Don Patterson, hoping everyone forgot.

Standard Operating Procedure is to deny the obvious, refuse to discuss an issue, and start shunning those who get in the way of the Shrinker Mob.

Why did WELS cover up the murders of Mrs. Tabor and Mrs. Just? The synod officials were not worried about the organization. They were protecting their own cushy jobs. If the members had found out the sordid truth, pitchforks and torches would have surrounded the Love Shack.

Strangely, the pastors get lured into the same cover-ups and evasions. They realize they will be ousted if they show any intellectual curiosity. They are expected to unman themselves and help silence others. And they do. The leaven of the Pharisees grows downward with ease.

UOJ is a contributing factor. If everyone is already forgiven and people know they are sinners, there is no Law. The Antinomian streak is even stronger in the CLC (sic), the rancid version of WELS - more Pietistic, more hypocritical, more sanctimonious.

Pietism itself is a major factor. It is easy to go from "girls cannot wear shorts" in Owasso, Michigan (an earlier WELS pastoral edict) to multiple adulteries qualifying a non-WELS ex-pastor to be a Church Growth expert (under DP Hategood). Oh, and do not forget the DP's buddy, another adulterer, being given a cushy job once his adultery was exposed. Was the VP punished? Oh no. Was the DP punished? Heavens no. The minister who uncovered the priapic pastor was thrashed for conduct unbecoming a WELS mobster.

The WELS pastors, who walk six feet above the ground, hate the facts being known. Al Just was convicted of murdering his wife in Phoenix, but the insiders still wig out about it being discussed. They do not realize or care that this attitude makes it easier for the next crime to occur.

The secret hazing ritual, called GA, trains WELS pastors to lie. They are still deceiving people about GA, which continues as an annual event. GA is a permanent stain on the Wisconsin Synod. James Tiefel was GA pope, so do not expect it to go away.

Mutual blackmail works well too. If they move a pastor because he had a affair with Bubbles, they own him for life. He is not going to go all Martin Luther on them. If called upon, like the clients in Godfather, he will do his duty for the Shrinker Mob.

O foolish WELSians, you let them organize Church and Change right under your noses while using your funds to do it. They skimmed your offerings to pay their tuition at Fuller, Willow Creek, Trinity Divinity, and other bawdy houses of Enthusiasm. And they call each other "Doctor" for getting a worthless DMin with your money!

They organize multiple meetings each year to support one another in the Mob. The invitations are public and the public must pay to have the poison dripped in their ears. The Shrinker Mob never works for free.

They trundle off to various rallies of Enthusiasm without facing any consequences. They are now so bold that Valleskey was able to become seminary president while endorsing Fuller Seminary, his alma mater. Kudu Don Patterson, called twice to the Sausage Factory, has gathered church workers for more of the same - and he wants to be DP!

WELS should move headquarters to Chicago, so the Democrat Left there could learn from the shameless, hardball tactics of WELS Church and Change.

But the basic members and pastors have been swindled long enough. I get the feeling that they will not let themselves be euthanized. They will not get back the millions wasted, but they may see the return of Lutheran doctrine. It will be a protracted battle, lasting many years. In the last 30 years, only one side has fought - the Shrinker Mob.

Ascension Day - May 13, 2010

Unless you believe as a child, you will not enter the Kingdom of God. Norma Boeckler.


Ascension Day


Pastor Gregory L. Jackson

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bethany-lutheran-worship

Bethany Lutheran Worship, 7 PM Central Standard Time

The Hymn #215 Draw Us to Thee 1:3
The Order of Vespers p. 41
The Psalmody Psalm 47 p. 123

KJV Psalm 47:
1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

The Lection Passion Harmony, TLH

The Sermon Hymn #225 Come Holy Spirit Come 1:39

The Sermon – Mark's Gospel

The Prayers
The Lord’s Prayer
The Collect for Grace p. 45

The Hymn # 200 I Know My Redeemer Lives 1:80


KJV Acts 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: 3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: 4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. 5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. 6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

KJV Mark 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. 20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

Outline:
I. The Ending of Mark
A. Mysterious finds by the same man, Tischendorf. Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.
B. Used to undermine the traditional NT texts from the Byzantine Empire, 1100 years of Greek Christian rule. Constantinople.
C. First stage in undermining the authority of God’s Word.
D. That and the canon of the NT (books of the Bible).

II. Homiletics book.
A. Bad sermon – one that implied the Ascension actually happened.
B. This is not a liberal observance so conservative Lutherans make a point of recognizing it.
C. God accomplishes everything by His will, through His Word.
D. Doubting God means doubting His Word and His goodness. One may start at one point or another, but doubt will connect the points together. Atheists exult in the number of former ministers who fill their ranks, and these are activist haters of religion, especially the Christian faith.
E. Jesus upbraided the disciples. Important to realize that all preaching of the Word includes Law preaching – against doubting the Word.

III. We recite Psalm 47, and sing it in various hymns.
A. Did they know what they were singing? Not until it was fulfilled before their eyes.
B. God has gone up with a shout – only fulfilled in the Ascension and makes little sense apart from the Ascension.
C. Victory over sin, death, and Satan.
D. Justification by faith is essentially God declaring our sins forgiven because of Christ’s victory, and this declaration is received in faith, faith created by the Promises of God.

Ascension Day Service, Tomorrow at 7 PM Central

By Norma Boeckler

We Americans have turned the worship service into another day of labor. Someone said, "The Christian faith is the only world religion where God gives to man, instead of man giving to God."

That would be a Means of Grace perspective, almost absent in the Lutheran Church, but staging a minor comeback in some places.

The Pentecostal-Evangelical tradition turns the worship service into a recruitment drive. From that point it has degenerated into a time of entertainment and manipulation. Most of us ministers are not that entertaining, so that sends the majority into bouts of plagiarism to keep up with demands.

God has a marvelous way of tripping people up in their conceits, or perhaps it is Old Scratch hisself, leading false teachers along and betraying them at the end.

Robert Schuller claims to have invented the Church Growth Movement, and I believe he has strong claims in that area. Situated near Fuller Seminary, he had the chance to influence Fuller as a successful TV minister instead of just writing about it, as McGavran and Wagner did.

Schuller got to gloat about all his victories in Your Church Has Real Possibilities.

His empire is declining rapidly now. Purpose-Driven Rick Warren, profoundly influenced by Schuller, is rolling in money and enjoying his influence.

The multi-site ministers have the Syn Conference pastors slavering and slaving to be just like them. Loving praise, these Emerging Church boys invite people to copy them, and thereby enjoy the sincerest form of flattery.

Schuller is selling off his properties, including part of his own main campus. Ditto the old D. James Kennedy property. The other personality cults will do the same, eventually. They only prove that weed seeds do grow well.

Recipe for Pastoral Work
All the Lutheran churches need to do is provide liturgical worship with home-made sermons (ingredients: KJV, Triglotta, Luther's sermons, Lenski).

Add pastoral visitation instead of committee meetings and mission/vision planning sessions.

Add adult and youth education.

Subtract all parish activities. The pastor is not the social director of the Love Boat.

Subtract community events. Local leaders see ministers as handy volunteers.

Subtract most other activities to spend time with the family.

Clock Roll-backs Are a Mistake
Some people want a denomination which is like the one they remember from 20 years ago. Unfortunately our brains are better at Photoshopping than the software is.

A stricter version of Pietism is still Enthusiasm, and it will end up in a few years just like that bad old denomination which was left for good.

Missouri is almost identical to the LCA I knew in the 1960s because the LCMS is a Pietistic sect. Missouri will catch up with ELCA unless the leaders begin taking the Book of Concord seriously.

ELCA Has Church Discipline - Unlike the Syn Conference

Anticonfessionals from Church and Change run the WELS periodical. Jim Aderman was a founder of C & C, was fired as a pastor for shrinking his church, and has served or serves as a regular contributing FIC author. Other past and present Chicanery FICaries are: Peter Pan-denominational, Kudu Don Patterson, Frosty Bivens, David Valleskey, Paul Calvin Kelm, Joel Gerlach, Wayne Mueller, Jim Huebner, Larry Oh!, etc.

Everyone is whining about ELCA's latest venture into diversity. ELCA is getting rid of CORE (anti-gay agenda) clergy on the roster. They are threatening to expel any congregation belonging to another denomination, such as LCMC or CORE's new entity. The seminary faculties are all behind these moves and support draconian measures to enforce the 2009 votes.

I respect ELCA for being honest about their beliefs and acting on them. They are just the opposite of the Syn Conference.

WELS claims to have fellowship principles, but Parlow, Kelm, and Trapp have belonged to the Willow Creek denomination without being disciplined. Their congregations have joined Willow Creek without being kicked out. (Ditto ELS, LCMS, and CLC (sic) examples, with some minor variations.)

ELCA advocates homosexual and lesbian pastor couples, homosexual weddings, the entire gay agenda - almost to the exclusion of heterosexuality. Any deviation from deviancy is called homophobia and roundly condemned. The Syn Conference is supposedly straight, but they have been doing joint work with ELCA since the 1987 merger, with the ALC and LCA before that.

The Syn Conference is supposed pro-life, but they have been cosy with ELCA, even though ELCA pays for clergy abortions through its health plan. ELCA uses its World Hunger money (with starving babies on the posters) to pay for political lobbyists all over North America, to advocate abortion on demand as a legal right.

ELCA practices unionistic worship because ELCA favors full-throttle ecumenism. In contrast, WELS and Missouri and the Little Sect are outwardly opposed to this, but...

1. WELS Pastor Ski brags about worshiping with the Babtists at the Drive conference. It is posted on his public blog and left there for everyone to enjoy. Bishop Katie boasts that there were 8 WELS church workers there. No discipline. No sir. Instead, Ski is a expert speaker at Mary Lou College, Jeske, and Deputy Doug district events. Ditto Kelm, Huebner, and the rest. (Imagine ELCA tolerating a second-in-command who is an ardent Triglotta, KJV, Luther-first orthodox pastor! Huebner is the equivalent of that polar opposite in WELS. And he went to Fuller Seminary.)

2. WELS and Missouri have devoted themselves to promoting the very doctrine they supposedly reject - Enthusiasm.

3. To train pastors and leaders, WELS and Missouri ship truckloads of money to Fuller, Trinity Divinity, Willow Creek, Drive, and Exponential - but they are against unionism.

4. Syn Conference leaders cannot articulate a clear Lutheran message. In contrast, Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson is the darling of the ecumenical Left. He is their poster boy, their white Obama, for forcing unwanted change upon his denomination, getting away with it, and enforcing his edicts.

5. The Syn Conference is supposedly scandalized by ELCA cuddling up to the Antichrist, His Holiness the Pope. However, the ELS invited a bishop to march with them in their religious dedication service - where he spoke; WELS had the homosexual archbishop and his scrofulous priests teach at WLC; and Missouri sends its finest to Rome and Constantinople, thanks to papalists on their seminary faculties.

6. Thrivent doles out money based on ELCA's agenda, and the Syn Conference has both trotters in the trough.

7. The Episcopal Church, the weak sister partner of ELCA, watches while entire dioceses leave the denomination with their bishops - all united in fighting the PB's lawsuits against them. However, ELCA has not had a single active bishop leave the synod. Nor has an entire group of congregations left at once. ELCA's leader looks like the reference librarian at the public library, but he takes no prisoners.

The Syn Conference is very strict in one area of doctrinal discipline. Although they are in bed with every denomination, every orientation, and the Lavender Mafia, they make a point of marking and avoiding me. For that I am grateful. I do not think I could stand the purity of their doctrine, the integrity of their confession of faith, the honesty of their practice.

Join the Jeske Synod - Contribute Generously and Often To His Own Brand of Generic Christianity

CEO Jeske to graphics slaves - How can we get Jeske into this a few more times?


John has left a new comment on your post "Mark and Avoid Jeske Crosses the Wide Missouri":

Jeske appears to be another learned man who is so tied up in promoting his own agenda that the message of Christ, and Him crucified is totally lost.

One wonders whether Jeske has lost his identity as a Lutheran, or is denying that identity.

I have heard his program being praised as great for the W/ELS home bound and servicemen serving in areas where no W/ELS services are available.

How is this possible when there is no such affiliation mentioned in the program?

I dare say that if one looks at Jeske's program, simply applying the test of whether it spreads the message of Christ, and Him crucified, one will mark this program as having absolutely nothing to do with his/her salvation. Such a person will not only avoid this program, but also spread the word that it's a total waste of time.

What an opportunity this man has had to spread the Word. Has he done so?

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2oo babies baptized in one year!
Those German immigrants were coming in by the boat loads. Now Jeske, it is 100 years later and more Lutheran churches have been built. Perhaps your faith lies in the Fleck Foundation. Maybe the LCMS? I know pastors who started a mission church on a shoe string budget. This was done without church growth gimmicks.(the pastor went out in the community and talked one-on-one with people) According to my source, this was no get rich quick scheme. The sad part is that these same churches with humble beginnings, are being lead by C&C/CG pastors. Jeske, do you subscribe to the Holy Scripture and the BOC? "Change or die." Sorry Mark Jeske, I will not sell my soul!

In Christ,
from WELS church lady

Tombstone City, Wisconsin

Deputy Doug Englebrecht presides over a Church and Change district. The Changers run everything...into the ground.

The chairman of Church and Change is Ron Ash, formerly of St. Peter Freedom.

The pastor of The CORE Lutheran Church is Ski, a board member of Church and Change. He and Bishop Katie came from Jeske's non-denominational church in Milwaukee. Jeske is the Church and Change rock star, because he lives off more government grants than Headstart.

The pastor of St. Mark Willow Creek, John Parlow, is a key figure in Church and Change.

St. Mattthew has been shrinking under its Church and Change growth program. I heard it is down to 100 members. Soon it will be as small as The CORE.

Deputy Doug is busy stamping out any traces of Lutheran doctrine and worship. Re-elect Deputy Doug, so he can finish his work.

Mark and Avoid Jeske Crosses the Wide Missouri

CPH catalogue: Jeske has no WELS affiliation at all.

Oh Shenandoah,
I long to hear you,
Away you rolling river,
Oh Shenandoah,
I long to hear you,
Away, I'm bound away
'Cross the wide Missouri.

Oh Shenandoah,
I love your daughter,
Away you rolling river,
I'll take her 'cross
Your rollin' water,
Away, I'm bound away
'Cross the wide Missouri.

'Tis seven years,
I've been a rover,
Away you rolling river,
When I return,
I'll be your lover,
Away, I'm bound away
'Cross the wide Missouri.

Oh Shenandoah,
I'm bound to leave you.
Away you rolling river,
Oh Shenandoah,
I'll not deceive you.
Away, I'm bound away
'Cross the wide Missouri.

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GJ - While WELS members were being pumped to give money to Jeske, he was avoiding any mention of his affiliation. Is he Lutheran? No one would know from his disjointed show for people with short attention spans.

Church and Change - Their Five Lies about the Book of Concord and Lutheran Doctrine

WELS Pastors Bill Limmer and John Parlow
plagiarized Hybel's email.
Now Limmer copies Babtist sermons
and asks for financial support.

WELS pastors supposedly have a quia subscription to the Book of Concord. Therefore, every single thing done by WELS' secret lodge, Church and Change, is a lie. All their work is founded upon anti-Lutheran doctrine, from the Babtists, Reformed, Pietists, and New Age occultists. They learned this apostasy at the Sausage Factory in Mequon. No one seems to notice.

Babtist graphic.

WELS Pastor Bill Limmer is asking money for his generic Time of Grace campus ministry. He just sent out a letter with an offering envelope. he also advertised his sermons: Five Lies of the Devil. They are also posted on his websty.

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Pt. 3 Lies of the Devil - It's just sex

Journal Entry by Bill on May 10, 2010

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, welcome to God’s living room, I have been avoiding a message on the topic that we are going to be talking about today for about three years now. And before this is over some might be angry, mad, bothered to name a few. I came here thinking that so many co ...

1.

Pt. 4 Lies of the Devil - Faith is a private issue

Journal Entry by Bill on May 10, 2010

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, welcome to God’s living room, Think of a couple of significant events that have happened in your life. Share one or two of those with someone sitting next to you. One of the most significant events in our life is the day we spoke our first word. We probab ...

2.

Pt. 2 - Lies of the Devil - Just follow your heart

Journal Entry by Bill on May 10, 2010

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, welcome to God’s living room, About the time you were born a Swedish pop duo (D.H.T.) released a song “Listen to your heart.“ For those of who were hip and fly in the late 80’s and early 90’s the song gave us direction and guidance ...

3.

Pt. 1 Lies of the Devil - God will never give you more than you can handle

Journal Entry by Bill on May 10, 2010

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, welcome to God’s living room, He is sly, crafty, articulate and whispering in your ear. He is whispering lies in your ears - he is Satan. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks ...

4.

Heaven Beyond Imagination 2

Journal Entry by Bill on December 13, 2009

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, welcome to God’s living room, I don’t know about you but I’m just sick. I’m sick of H1N1 or some other type of flu or even the obnoxious stuffing head cold: the struggles and trials of those who have broken bones to those who are blind ...

2223 E. Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211 - Phone: 414-963-2047

Funny thing is - his latest series is copied from a Babtist church. Five Limmer sermons follow the same themes and texts as the five Babtist sermons.

NewSpring Babtist - Five Lies of the Devil.

The plagiarism of false teachers grew like kudzu vine
under the doctrinal leadership of Gurgle (left).
Ski (right) makes no bones about copying directly from Craig Groeschel.
The CORE is virtually a repeating mechanism for Groeschel.


The Five Lies of Church and Change:

1. Church and Change is Lutheran.

2. Church and Change is engaged in evangelism rather than sheep-stealing.

3. Church and Change pastors labor in the vineyard instead of lolling around at the conferences of false teachers.

4. Church and Change pastors write their sermons, studying the Scriptures and the Confessions, instead of copying and pasting them from false teachers.

5. Church and Change benefits the Wisconsin Synod and deserves financial support.

Murder Mystery Night 2010

Our third annual Murder Mystery Night was held at TPOG where Mike Westendorf was the victim! Who dunnit?!?

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From NewSpring Babtist:

Satan. Beelzebub. Lucifer. The red scaly guy with a bifurcated tail, pitchfork in hand. Whatever image your mind conjures up when you think about the devil, the Bible is very clear about who he is and what he does.

He tempts (Mark 1:13). He accuses (Zechariah 3:1). He condems (John 13:2). Sometimes he puts evil thoughts into your head (John 13:2). He steals. And kills. And destroys (John 10:10). And he lies (John 8:44). He hates the truth. He schemes and whispers and manipulates, anything to convince you to believe what he says.

But you don't have to believe him. You can fight back. Beginning in August at NewSpring, join us for Five Lies of the Devil as we learn some common untruths the devil uses, and how to find the truth in every situation.

Week

Date

Title

Week 1

08/23/09

God Will Never Put More on Us Than We Can Handle

Preview | Audio | Video | For Further Study (pdf) | Groups Guide (pdf)

Week 2

08/30/09

NewSpring Just Wants Your Money

Preview | Audio | Video | For Further Study (pdf) | Groups Guide (pdf)

Week 3

09/06/09

Just Follow Your Heart

Preview | Audio | Video | For Further Study (pdf) | Groups Guide (pdf)

Week 4

09/13/09

My Faith is a Private Issue

Preview | Audio | Video | For Further Study (pdf) | Groups Guide (pdf)

Week 5

09/20/09

It's Just Sex

Preview | Audio | Video | For Further Study (pdf) | Groups Guide (pdf) | Relationship Questions (pdf).

Valere - Oh! Oh!

UOJ Stormtroopers stick to Christian News,
their favorite theological journal.

Valere has left a new comment on your post "Note the List of Foreign Countries":

No one reads this blog? Heck I read it everyday. It's part of my Daily Devotions.

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GJ - Breaking news. Ripped from the pages of Extra Nos - Joe Krohn said: "As much as I hate to admit it, Jackson is right on some things...."

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Scott E. Jungen has left a new comment on your post "Note the List of Foreign Countries":

Valere,
Only once a day? I'm here several times a day. I hope I'm not inflating the numbers!
Scott

WELS Women Pastors Conference - Just Like ELCA

Religious beaches: there are 10 things wrong with this photo.
Can you find them?

WELS church lady has left a new comment on your post "Don't Bring a Box of Chocolates to a Knife Fight":


National WELS Women's Leadership conference-July 16-17: This is being advertised in everything.(including Parish School News Letters) Please listen!! This is NOT LWMS. This is Part of Church And Change. Look it up. Mark and avoid Church And Change groups.

In Christ,
from WELS church lady

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GJ - WELS Church and Change entities include:

1. The Sausage Factory in Mequon.

2. Mary Lou College in New Ulm.

3. Willowcreek's Little College, Milwaukee.

4. Forward in Christ.

5. Kingdom Workers.

6. Both synodical mission boards.

7. Jeske's Missouri media ministry.

8. The Conference of Pussycats, notably the Wisconsin Circuit.

9. Church and Change - The Mother Ship.

Denominations advance apostasy by having training and inspirational events where the new fad is promoted slowly and persistently. The in-crowd makes sure they are represented while flying into a rage if the wrong person is even considered as a speaker.

WELS already has women pastors, so quit murmuring. They have consecrating and distributed Holy Communion. They not only preside over worship but get invited to speak at Mary Lou about how they are getting away with it. I realize the Latte Lady Pastor got her speaking invite quashed, but she is still there and the congregation has a vicar - a definite sign of DP approval.

Wake up and smell the latte. This is exactly how the LCA/ALC instituted women's ordination the same way. WELS skipped ordination and just started having women pastors. Next they will study the issue and find it is a very good thing, but also an adiaphoron. Everything is an adiaphoron in WELS. Except UOJ and CG.

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Grey Goose wrote:

The Church Lady's admonition to look up the conference worked.

Here is the link: http://www.welswomen.net/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=180009471&sec_id=180002756&nc=1273594535894

Scrolling down, I came upon the name Sally Vallesky. Wife (or daughter) of one of your favorites?

Of course, Kathy Wendland is involved.

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GJ - Be sure to see the countdown, which includes milliseconds! Gasp.

Fox Valley WELS - A Monument of Doctrinal Apostasy and Disaster

How much longer will WELS continue to self-destruct?

wildcard (http://wildcard.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "St. Matthew in Appleton, WELS - The Price of Churc...":

Incompetent leaders ran St. Matthew into the ground. WELS has very few competent leaders.

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GJ - Meanwhile, The CORE and St. Peter Freedom disguise sheep-stealing from brother pastors as "reaching out to the lost." That is what Tim Glende learned from Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, Church Growth expert for the Columbus circuit, WELS.

St. Matthew's Church and Change:
1. The school was closed to hire a second Shrinker pastor, in addition to the Shrinker pastor and Shrinker staff minister (Larry Oh's program at Mary Lou College).
2. The congregation has been losing ground every since it adopted the WELS CGM program.
3. Many have escaped to Riverview.

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viewpoint (http://viewpoint.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Fox Valley WELS - A Monument of Doctrinal Apostasy...":

How much longer will WELS continue to self-destruct?

WELS will continue to self-destruct until their leaders with a contrite heart seek forgiveness from God for all their wicked ways. Assuming they will study their bibles, they will learn that the work of the Lord is much more than a poorly run business placed on the backs of believers.

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Greg,

Not that it matters all that much, but Monkey Joe's is very much alive and well. My wife and I think that the property in question might be the former Springz building. It was an indoor family amusement center that featured go carts, mini bowling, rock climbing, arcade games, and a restaurant. It did, indeed, go belly up after it had been open for only about four months a few years ago. Someone I know actually worked there.

I recently discovered your blog and would love to post, but cannot figure out open I.D.

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GJ - Can someone offer EZ directions for Open ID? I know one way is to have a blog and use that ID.

Don't Bring a Box of Chocolates to a Knife Fight

The porkers of Church and Change will not give their lives for the Gospel, but they will kill for those synod subsidies, foundation grants, and Thrivent projects.

The WELSian false teachers demand that anyone who questions them must come, hat in hand, groveling, with a box of chocolates, to their knife fight. The errorists need to have a 10-to-1 advantage or they run away from a meeting.

They script their performances, meeting in advance.

When people come to these meetings with good hearts, gentle intentions, and humility, they are bulldozed by the combination of deceit, denial, and denunciation. If one false teacher reveals how demonic he really is, the others step in and change the subject.

For example, DP Robert Mueller revealed that he never told congregations that they were about to call a known adulterer, because "They won't call him." A layman went into shock over that admission of deviousness, so the subject was changed immediately.

The only weapon that can be used in a knife fight is the Sword of the Spirit.

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.

A thorough knowledge of the Book of Concord is also invaluable. The Confessions will come alive when studied in the light of doctrinal conflict. They cannot be understood as a history book. That is like using the Triglotta as a chin-prop for naps in class at the Sausage Factory.

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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Don't Bring a Box of Chocolates to a Knife Fight":

PDFs of Triglotta can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Concord#Contemporary_printed_editions

They Are Bad Bloggers Too

Caught squeezing the Charmin.


wildcard (http://wildcard.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Note the List of Foreign Countries":

We know the Shrinkers cannot even operate a blog. They are too lazy. Just look at the counterfeit Ichabod with all its slander and rubbish remarks.

Frankly, they stand for failure in most things that they attempt to do.

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GJ - The fake blogger has no doctrinal discernment at all, so his denunciations are especially comical.

I recall that he raved about my kelming of graphics, but he has kelmed mine many times, without asking permission. The Shrinkers have called for lawsuits against me, but I have only two objections so far. One was from a paid site, so I reduced the kelmed portion to a link. Another asked me to link and quote more precisely, which I did. That is a fair record for 4,100+ posts.

The general rule about graphics is that they can be altered as satire. I look for material in the public domain.

In the past, the Shrinkers complained that I quoted them "out of context." I began using much longer quotations, always giving the exact source, but the howling remained.

One Lutheran said, "It is amusing that they have tried so hard to silence you, and they still have to deal with you anyway."

I have not found an adequate WELS Shrinker blog. Ski hardly writes. He finally realized I was quoting his Tweets, so that stopped (along with Glende's and a few others). I tracked Tweets from Katie for a time, but it was same old buzzing all the time. It is no longer news that Ski, Katie, and Glende go to Schwaermer conferences with the approval of Deputy Doug Englebrecht, possibly the worst WELS DP, except for Mark Jeske's bodyguard man-servant DP.

The Church and Change website is sloppy, badly edited, and revealing. They are endlessly caught between their fever to promote themselves and their obsessive need for secrecy. At what point do they think they have fooled us about the leadership coming from the Gurgle bros, Mark Jeske, Patterson, Jim Huebner, and other Calvinists?

Their problem is not that I have lied but that I have told the truth and documented it.

Slander is a basic management tool of WELS, so when they howl "Slander!" they really mean, "Stop revealing how corrupt and dishonest we really are."

To stop these marauding, adulterous thieves, who rob widows and orphans while mocking the Word and Sacraments, a force must be applied against them, equal to or greater than the force of their false doctrine.

rhs (http://rhs.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "They Are Bad Bloggers Too":

To stop these marauding, adulterous thieves, who rob widows and orphans while mocking the Word and Sacraments, a force must be applied against them, equal to or greater than the force of their false doctrine.

Just who is their god? They smugly insist that they do it for god. Their infirm god needs them to “rob widows and orphans?” Their lame god cannot create all the money that they want? They really are false teachers and preachers.

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GJ - A man left his estate to WELS with the provision that his widow be supported. This case is called MilCraft or the Golf estate. I may have Golf misspelled. WELS wrecked the prosperous business. The widow had to go to court to get the money wasted by WELS. The synod did not want to pay. The court listened to the facts and found for the widow, forcing WELS to ante up $1 million. That just about pushed WELS over the edge financially. Gurgle was the genius DP in charge of this fiasco. Therefore, the conservative made him their dream candidate for SP, where he did the same with the Schwan millions. That is the plot behind my hilarious parody - "Where Have All the Schwan Bucks Gone?" Now Gurgle is working with Kudu Don Patterson.

If the widow's case moved along as most lawsuits do, her lawyer asked the synod to settle out of court, to save everyone time and money. It is clear that the synod refused to accept responsibility, so robbing a widow was OK with them. It took a secular court to reverse the robbery, doubtless an unpleasant experience for the widow. Imagine what her late husband would have thought - his business ruined and his widow robbed at the same time.

When all this was done and the matter was public, WELS said, "We have to be careful about the gifts we accept from now on." It is difficult to attribute actions and claims like these to believers.