All eyes are upon the the Very Rev. Mark N. Avoid Jeske, as he carefully picks his seat, positioned among the greats of religious media - Robert Schuller, Creflo Dollar, Rick Warren, and Joel Osteen.
I do not have any certificate of defenestration. He did not tag a sidewalk or use the KJV, which are just about the only ways to get kicked out of WELS.
Jeske is still in WELS and Missouri, thanks to a century of doctrinal in-breeding.
Various people may or may not do something about him. Both synods (and the ELS) are indifferent about sound doctrine, so the matter will be settled, politics as usual, based on the Golden Rule: Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.
The Daddy Warbucks overlap the synods, all the better to control more lackeys. Marvin Schwan was building a cathedral in St. Louis - Our Lady of Sorrows, boasting a serpentine cross for a time, while trying to build one in New Ulm at Mary Lou College. To initiate the new era of stealth congregations called community church or just The CORE, WELS invented the vanishing chapel.
Yessir, the $8 million disappeared and so did the chapel. But the money reappeared like Brigadoon and the chapel was built. Huzzah! What better place to use the Booze and Broads edition of Christian Worship than a chapel built by a guy who had a "weak place for women and Cadillacs," as his minion said.
The real news is this, and you would miss it if I were not here to guide you: the Lutherans have arrived at a new stage, and the toothpaste cannot be pushed back into the tube.
Here are the facts:
- Someone found out about the joint ELCA-WELS-LCMS ministry conference sponsored by Siebert Foundation and Thrivent Insurance. There was nothing new about that. WELS has been doing that at the national level for decades.
- Nor is it newsworthy that I blew the whistle on them, because I have been doing that for decades.
- WELS pastors and laity made this an issue by publishing their take on the issue, independent of me, and sent a letter, making that letter public rather than hidden and secret.
- The Intrepids were already together and dealing with the Fox Valley, Anything Goes District of WELS. All previous private attempts there went nowhere, whether initiated by the attorney, by visiting pastors appalled at The CORE, the resignation of a pastor (because of deceit at St. Peter, Freedom), etc. Failure to get any results was not news, but the lack of response must have led to their public actions.
If they boot Jeske's plagiarizing bunch out, that will not be news. Nor will it be cause for rejoicing. The joyful news is this - the rules have changed. The write a secret letter era is over. People realize that the DPs wield power and collect enormous benefits for being Evan-jellyfish, toxic and spineless.
I do work with a large group of individuals, a changing population. I looked up one source on Facebook - he had un-friended me. No more emails or phone calls. Boo-hoo. I am sure his sect jumped on him like a hobo on a hotdog.
Others have stepped in. Some are regulars. Some give me information once a year. My previous prediction was that Jeske would officially join the LCMS, but that was when Kieschnick was still in office. Now that I have seen even more evidence of his pan-demon studies and endorsements, I think he will affiliate with Groeschel or another similar group, and take some of his buddies with him. Thanks to ELCA, congregations realize that they too can leave the synod. If they are not slaves to one confession, they are not slaves to one synod either.
as Joel Osteen admitted in a sermon?
