Pastor Tim routinely plagiarizes Groeschel sermons, "to keep St. Peter, Freedom from dying."
I have been sorting out the doctrinal orthodoxy of WELS Pastor Tim Glende, whose glowering and erratic blog is devoted to denouncing me as a heretic. I wish more would do the same, because polemics bring out the truth. Most blogs are efforts in mutual praise and self-affirmation. There is more content in a Kodak commercial.
According to Tim, it is a terrible sin to quote a General Council Lutheran theologian, but life-saving to plagiarize Groeschel, who was trained United Methodist and joined a non-confessional Pietist sect.
According to Tim, all my quotations from Lutherans are bad and damaging, even when I suggest that they study collections of Lutheran theologians. But Tim has devoted himself to studying with non-Lutherans and anti-confessionals, including the Babtist Andy Stanley and the cussing Mark Driscoll.
According to Tim, I am wrong to mention Lenski, but Lenski is considered an automatic purchase for WELS students. Most people would puzzle over the contradiction, except for the fact that Lenski taught justification by faith, as Luther did and the Bible does.
According to Tim, it is damning to study at Yale, a sin that cannot be erased by UOJ, unless we are talking about his Uncle John Brug, who also spent some time at Yale.
According to Tim, the entire world (with the possible exception of moi) has been been absolved of all sin, without the Word of God, without the Means of Grace, without faith. But Tim is not exactly gracious with anyone who disagrees with him, since his own member had to seek protection from the Synod President and blog about the abuse, deceit, and false doctrine at St. Peter, Freedom.
According to Tim, he has not plagiarized Groeschel, but he had the Circuit Pastor canned when he was confronted with his dishonest practices. Visitors noticed the amazing similarity between all of Tim's "work" and the Groeschel packaged service of sermon, graphics, and promotions.
According to Tim, I am a unionist, because I graduated from Yale and Notre Dame, but I did not attend non-Lutheran schools or events as a WELS pastor - except for the one his home parish promoted for Church Growth, because a member asked me to do so and report on it for Christian News. Tim grew up in a non-WELS congregation, St. Paul in German Village, but no one would know that from his sanctimonious blog.
Tim, Ski, and Bishop Katie took in every possible Emergent Church training event. I am not sure exactly how many Tim attended, but Katie tweeted about all the ones she attended with Ski. They were both members of the St. Peter, Freedom staff. Ski is still a member of that staff, along with his new assistant pastor. Although they pretend to be two different congregations, St. Peter Freedom and The CORE are the same congregation, multi-site, as in Emergent Church (Stanley, Driscoll, Groeschel, ad nauseum).
Tim likes to brag that he is reaching out to everyone, but glories in his pseudo-WELSiness. After all, he was not a member of a WELS congregation until he was ordained and called to one. His home congregation practiced open communion, women's suffrage, and Masonic communion. St. Paul in German Village promoted Floyd Stolzenburg as a pseudo-pastor of Church Growth, after he was kicked out of Missouri for cause. No one will ever read that on Tim's blog.
Tim does not work hard, although he has plenty of spare time, with Groeeschel writing his sermons and bulletin inserts for him. Even then he is reduced to copying his own previous posts.
