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| ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson and Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori have the same agenda. |
I read the Lamentations of the Episcopal Church at Virtue Online, my looking glass into the future of the Lutheran Church.
Bishop Kate is busy suing her own congregations, to steal their property and drive away all traditional priests and bishops. Note her bio:
- She was an oceanographer, born in 1954.
- Ordained in 1994.
- Elected bishop in Nevada in 2000.
- Elected Presiding Bishop in 2006.
Bishop Mark has a similar background, with more parish experience.
- Born in 1946, his father a pastor of the ELC (Norwegian side of The ALC).
- Educated at the Devil's Playground (Union) and Luther Seminary.
- Ordained in 1974.
- Served three congregations, elected St. Paul bishop in 1995.
- Elected ELCA Presiding Bishop in 2001. Re-elected in 2007.
Both of them won national office through the power of the homosexual network in their denominations. Both bishops rewarded their followers by approving the ordination of homosexuals, a practice which had already been accepted for decades. Both are admired by mainline leaders for the way they are driving out all opposition.
Once the confessions are abandoned, anything is possible, and the radical extremes are quickly embraced. The liturgy and readings can keep faith alive during such crises, but church leaders are working hard to eliminate both in the name of being relevant and transforming lives. They also want to be sensitive and selectively diverse in a rainbow coalition of the Left, favoring the red and lavender shades.
Missouri, WELS, and the Little Sect on the Prairie supposedly prefer adulterous millionaires to the Lavender Mafia, although that is hard to believe with a homosexual serving as Director of Communications for WELS for five years.
When I was imprisoned at Mequon in 1987, I heard about a Steve Witte, whose congregation in the Appleton area had 5,000 members thanks to cell groups. He was quoted as saying, "I don't care what they study, as long as they have cell groups." Witte was a founder of Church and Change, along with Aderman, John Johnson, and some others, including Mark Jeske the Orange. (Watch him on Time of Grace - he is using Snooki's bronzer, making him look like a tall Oompa Loompa.)
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Appleton was anti-confessional 25 years ago. Now John Parlow is abusing the same parish. Here is an sample from Parlow:
“and talk about a guy (Christ) whose
life didn’t work out the way he planned….”
John Parlow
If I remember the phony doctorates right -
- Parlow got his DMin from Denver,
- Witte from Gordon Conwell,
- Kelm from St. Louis,
- Olson from Fuller,
- Richard Krause from an Ohio union group.
All of them call themselves "Dr," which is really a belly laugh. When convenient, such as fooling the rich and gullible, or the rich buying indulgences, they are Lutheran. The rest of the time they are lazy, plagiarizing Universalists.
If you want to see the future of the Olde Synodical Conference, study The Episcopal Church. They were conservative traditionalists too, at one time. The "conservative" Lutherans are going the same way, but they will not have the same endowment funds to prop them up.
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Where Does Anti-Confessionalism End?Universalism a...":
My apologies, (W)ELS Pastor Parlow's statement about Christ begins at 32:00
Even more disturbing is Parlow's statements at 34:20 where he teaches the real message of Christmas - "The real story is not hat you are promised a merry Hallmark Christmas. It is the good news of God the child, born in a manger, died on a cross, laid in a tomb, risen from the grave, seated at the right hand of the Father, coming back one day to set the world right, your world right. And more importantly, right now for you, to make your messy world right."
REALLY?!? The message of Christmas is that Christ will return one day to make our messy world right? That is a New Age millennialist teaching.
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Parlow's statement can be found at 3:41 in the video presentation. He steps on Christ, trying to be relevant, cool and hip.
Let's see now, that was a service and sermon about John Parlow, Mike Westendorf, Herod, Mary, Joseph, and YOU/ME, but....Jesus? Not so much.
Also, how hypocritical to preach against a secular Christmas, but then worship and preach in a secular setting: Pre-December on the calendar, but full Christmas decorations in front of the hidden altar (which is there to receive the offering plates apparently because Parlow made special mention that the ushers couldn't get to the altar because it was backstage behind the props), and Scriptural texts that are appointed for the church year calendar festival of Epiphany which always falls on January 6, the 12th day of Christmas. Remember that song?
And on and on and on....
Make no mistake about it, WELS readers, that way of "doing church" is being encouraged in WELS and along with it a (further) departure from Confessional Lutheranism.
My apologies, (W)ELS Pastor Parlow's statement about Christ begins at 32:00
Even more disturbing is Parlow's statements at 34:20 where he teaches the real message of Christmas - "The real story is not hat you are promised a merry Hallmark Christmas. It is the good news of God the child, born in a manger, died on a cross, laid in a tomb, risen from the grave, seated at the right hand of the Father, coming back one day to set the world right, your world right. And more importantly, right now for you, to make your messy world right."
REALLY?!? The message of Christmas is that Christ will return one day to make our messy world right? That is a New Age millennialist teaching.
@Brett Meyer: If you had read the passage clearly, you may have noticed that it is essentially a paraphrase of the second article of the Apostles' Creed which, unless I am mistaken, most Christians adhere to.
So, I confess myself deeply confused. There is no reference to a thousand year kingdom on earth, the Rapture, or thee Tribulation, which are three common Millenialist themes, in Pastor Parlow's sermon. In fact, I recall passages in the Bible itself that pray "Come quickly Lord Jesus." Also, I had thought that Christians pray for the return of Christ to end the misery of a sin-riddled world. In addition, the final statement about a messy world refers not to the Second Coming, but to the strength that Christ gives to face the trials of our lives in the here and now. This is inconsistent to your accusation of promoting New Age Millenialist philosophy (which are pretty much completely seperate entities incidentally). The New Age movement does not believe that strength comes from a personal Savior. It teaches that strength comes from self only. Millenialists do not believe that the return of Christ will bring right to the world. They believe that it will bring about a final Tribulation.
So either there really is a sect of Christianity that I am not aware of that entirely dismisses the return of Jesus, or you are really, really, REALLY grasping at straws this time.
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