Glende, Rev Timothy P Bethany - North Fort Myers FL 02/07/2011
Pastor Call***GJ - Will his anonymous blog continue? Everyone looks forward to his quarterly article, which repeats the previous ones.
Google changed their formula for searching, so the plagiarized title does not show up anymore.
This call will put to rest any charges that the WELS DPs are spineless evan-jellyfish. PETA has sued for defamation, amicus curiae, on behalf of all jellyfish.
Note to non-victims of WELS abuse: this call is a way of showing approval by WELS of the parson. Thus Paul Copycat Kelm got two calls at once. So did Frosty Bivens' son.
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There is a God has left a new comment on your post "More Proof of WELS Discipline:Plagiarism, False Do...":
Seems to me the Glende Call to Bethany could mean the following:
1) This is just how the system works. After a pastor is at a congregation for a set time (is it 4 years?), his name is put on Call lists as a matter of course.
2) Glende has asked his DP that his name be used on Call lists because he would like the opportunity to move on.
3) DP wants him moved, or at least wants the congregation and Glende to have the "heart-to-heart" that a Call consideration provides, so his name is being placed on many Call lists.
4) Other DPs want a man like Glende in their districts and so his name is put on many Call lists.
5) Congregation wants a pastor like Glende, suggests his name at the Call meeting because his name was not included on the official candidate list supplied by DP, and then calls him.
6) Other (vision of a man of Macedonia a la Acts 16:9?)
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "More Proof of WELS Discipline:Plagiarism, False Do...":
Bethany Lutheran Church in Ft. Myers Florida issued the call to (W)ELS Pastor Tim Glende.
Bethany's previous pastor is Pastor Dan Burgess. He was a presenter at a C&C conference:
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Back to Basics: Missional Churches
Dan Burgess
(dsburgess@gmail.com)
We will discuss how using seemingly forgotten 1st Century methods of proclaiming the gospel in the 21st Century helped a dying church double in size in two years. How is it that Philip the evangelist was able to go from preaching to crowds in a large city, to proclaiming the gospel one-on-one without missing a beat? How can we take the same principles of the early church (which was a missional church) and apply them in the 21st Century while using 21st Century technology?
Dan Burgess is pastor at Bethany Lutheran in North Fort Myers, FL, where he teaches and preaches evangelism with a passion.
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Ichabod broke this story in November of 2009:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2009/11/chicanery-conference-program.html
Dan Burgess Twitter
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http://blendedworshipresource.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/why-blended-worship/
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