Northwest SD Lutheran has left a new comment on your post "Co-Worker of the Notorious Iver Johnson - Worried ...":
What is interesting here is it sounds like they are even refusing to address foul and false teachings. They are doing this under the guise of the 8th Commandment. I do not know about you but I think that one should rebuke false teaching.
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GJ -
KJV 2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
KJV Titus 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
Stadler's congregation grew by taking in WELS members who were under discipline in other congregations. Stadler was divorced and re-married. Iver Johnson was celebrating his golden wedding anniversary and "counseling" the church secretary at the same time. And WELS would have Michael J. Albrecht admonish The Sausage Factory from the Holy of Holies, the WELS Essay Files.
The essay is worth reading - just for the experience of watching a pastor get as giddy as a schoolgirl over a bevvy of outrageous pagan false teachers.
The WELS Essay File should be audited for the number of ex-pastors, false teachers, atheists, and scoundrels found therein. Mark and Avoid Jeske! Curtis the Atheist Peterson! Mike He's Counseling the Secretary Right Now Albrecht! Sig Guilt-Free Saints in Hell Becker! Jon Iscariot Is Forgiven Buchholz! Paul Calvin Kelm! Dan Escape to Missouri with Wife #2 Kelm! Paul Church Growth with Floyd Luther Stolzenburg Kuske - "On Dealing with Doctrinal Aberration"! Richard Iver's Tied Up Right Now Stadler! Richard Starr's Homosexual Essay, a Foretaste of My Homosexual Book.
There are 19 essays by Wayne UOJ and CG Mueller, but only 10 by Kelm. David Never Went to Fuller Valleskey has 35 essays, while Joel Never Read a Book Voss has none. James Dewey Tiefel has quite a few on worship. Marc Divorce Your Wife and Marry Another Schroeder has one essay in, even though John Seifert kicked him out of WELS (not for serial marriage).
The great thing about the WELS essay file is being able to go through the names and marvel at those careers of debauchery, false doctrine, and apostasy - a Smoking Gun mugfile for Lutherans.
Just to prove my point - I looked up Richard Jungkuntz' sole contribution in the essay files. It is on the "Ministry of Reconciliation," a district convention essay, 1954.
I have argued in the past that he was the prime mover in opening up the Wisconsin Synod to apostasy, laying the groundwork for the Church Growth Movement taking over. He taught at Northwestern College, seedbed of the Seminex Movement in the LCMS.
His essay is a halleluia chorus to UOJ. Below is one quotation:
The direct consequence of this change in the relationship between God and man was the justification of the whole world, the declaring of every sinner righteous before God. For that is the meaning in positive terms of what St. Paul here states negatively: “not imputing their trespasses unto them.” It is impossible to overemphasize this statement. For in our own time, even in our own Synodical Conference, this vital truth is being endangered, both by direct attack and by neglect. What is stated here by St. Paul means much more than merely that God has “provided and secured” salvation for all men, so that it is now possible for them to be justified through faith. Rather, it means nothing less than that already before faith, without faith, they have been justified by God, declared righteous for Christ’s sake, their sins no longer imputed to them. Henceforth it can never be sin that damns a man, any man, but only the rejection of God’s act of justification. From God’s standpoint every sinner is a reconciled sinner.
Jungkuntz was a liberal's liberal, smoked out in WELS, then by Jack Preus in the LCMS, ending his career in The ALC.
He told the NY Times he was "old school."
