Rebuking False Doctrine and False Teachers Is an Obligation of the Pastoral Ministry

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."

Jungkuntz' class was 1942.

Feel Free To Use Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant At Your Church

Cover design by Norma Boeckler

A pastor asked permission to use parts of Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, which can be ordered from Lulu.com and downloaded as a PDF for free. The Leader's Guide can also be downloaded for free.

There is no need to ask permission to use the book or parts of it, because I would like people to have unlimited privileges in their teaching efforts. The copyright prevents people from reprinting it with their name on the title page, because I know how often that happens today in the Church and Change crowd. DP Englebrecht says it is fine to break the law and deceive people, because a number of WELS pastors do that. The next church worker to murder his spouse should ask for Englebrecht to serve as prosecutor or judge.

Nevertheless, I doubt whether the Shrinkers would copy Lutheran doctrine!

Co-Worker of the Notorious Iver Johnson - Worried about Slandering False Teachers

ex-WELS but still a pastor, Michael J. Albrecht.
What did he know and when did he know it?


Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Heavens to Betsy, Amy":

People should be offended that their elders, clergy, church, district and Synod are allowing such heinous statements and practices to continue. I've wondered that myself as I witness the glassy eyed stares of the laity I talk to. The answer is in the false doctrines which they are being taught. UOJ is certainly the most wretched and damaging, separating the confessor from Christ. Yet, there are others which are taught with equal vigor and have similar effects. One is the great commission where the (W)ELS perverts Matt 28:19 into a Methodist/Pentecostal call to action. Another is concerns how public sins are treated and the proper application of

I ran across this (W)ELS essay which, regardless of its ineffectiveness as a deterrent to the power of positive thinking (it really acts as a platform for the false teaching to express itself), promotes the same twisted agenda that we see time after time from the false teachers in the Lutheran Synods - "it's not what he said that matters, it's what he meant when he said, or did, XYZ that really matters."

Positive Thinking And Possibility Thinking In The Church: What Does Scripture Say?
[South Central District Pastor/Teacher/Delegate Conference
Lord of Life Evangelical Lutheran Church Friendswood, TX January 28-29, 1988]
By Pastor Michael J. Albrecht

Whenever we set out to evaluate and to criticize people with whom we find ourselves in disagreement, it behooves us to remember not only that slander is a crime, but also that no matter who they may be, they are protected by God's Eighth Commandment. Whether he be a heretic or a pagan, each and every one of my fellow human beings deserves for me to put the best construction on what he says and does. Page 1

I hope we are being fair to Dr. Peale if we now move on to a brief evaluation of his most popular book, assuming that we have sufficient background to understand his words as he intended them to be understood. Page 3

http://www.wlsessays.net/files/AlbrechtThinking.PDF

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GJ - To quote Bishop Fulton Sheen, "I find Paul appealing but Peale appalling."

Norman Vincent Peale was an apostate, a non-Christian who plagiarized his best-seller from an occult writer. That plagiarism was proven decades ago.

Peale inspired Robert Schuller. Albrecht practically drooled on Schuller's hob-nailed boots in this essay. The humor is impossible to miss - now that Schuller's cathedral is bankrupt, just like the Church Growth Movement he spawned.

Stadler and Albrecht were known as Shrinkers before they were booted out of WELS. Stadler was buddies with Paul Calvin Kelm and Wayne Mueller. I will look up the graduation photo. Birds of a feather do flock together.

What a treasure trove in this class: Stadler (Church Growth), Forest Bivens (Fuller Seminary alumnus), Joel Gerlach as professor - bragging in a letter sent to Herman Otten that he went to Fuller at some point.

Lutheran CORE - News and Discussion: ELCA evicts African Lutherans because of opposition to new ELCA teaching and policy

"Brett, I want to welcome you into ELCA, so I can have the pleasure of booting you out."


Lutheran CORE - News and Discussion: ELCA evicts African Lutherans because of opposition to new ELCA teaching and policy

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011

ELCA evicts African Lutherans because of opposition to new ELCA teaching and policy

The ELCA is taking harsh actions against African immigrant Lutherans who oppose the ELCA’s new teaching and policy on marriage and same-sex sexual relationships.

Two African immigrant congregations have been expelled from local ELCA congregations where they have worshiped at the direction of ELCA officials.

“Oromo congregations in Houston, Texas, and Denver, Colorado, were asked by their mission directors and host church to leave the church premises without delay. The reason they were given was they are not in agreement with the August 2009 Churchwide Assembly resolution,” the January newsletter of the United Oromo Evangelical Churches reported.

The 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted to change ELCA teaching and practice on marriage and sexual ethics to affirm same-sex sexual relationships and to allow pastors to be in those relationships.

The 2009 assembly also asked the ELCA to respect the “bound consciences” of those who disagree with the church’s new teaching and practice. But that part has been more difficult for ELCA officials.

“One of the things mentioned to the leaders of the church in Denver: ‘Rev. Gemechis Buba has resigned from his ELCA position and we assume you have a similar stand and we have no reason to keep you in our buildings,’” the newsletter reported.

The Rev. Dr. Gemechis Buba is the former Director of African National Ministries for the ELCA. He resigned his ELCA position Dec. 8 to accept a call to serve as Missions Director for the North American Lutheran Church.

Dr. Buba was the first prominent leader from the ELCA national offices in Chicago to leave the church body since the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly.

Members of these congregations came to America to escape persecution because of their Christian faith in their native Ethiopia under the Communist regime that ruled Ethiopia until 1991. Some of them were imprisoned and tortured because of their commitment to Christ. They now face a different kind of persecution in their new home because of their faith.

“We ask all of our church leaders to announce fasting and prayer time for the difficulties we currently facing,” the newsletter requests.

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GJ - ELCA knows how to administer church discipline. Every synod should do the same, so the faithful and apostate are aligned properly instead of being mixed together.

WELS says, "Ooooh. Gunn is in big trouble." Then Gunn is elected to a WELS college board of directors, joined by two others from the same congregation - his.

And WELS says, "Now Gunn is really going to get it." Then his own DP promotes a Church and Change youth rally featuring Gunn, with the promotional material almost giving sainthood to the imposter.

UOJ Is Taking Out WELS and Missouri - Not To Mention the Little Sect on the Prairie

Bad behavior? Our Martin Luther College president is a UOJ essayist!
Zarling is orthodox WELS.


bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Grace Does Not Equal Forgiveness":

GJ wrote: "I contend that UOJ is the falsehood behind the famously bad behavior of WELS clergy and the criminal cover-ups of the synod officials."

I second that motion!

They say UOJ gives assurance of salvation, but if you need THAT much assurance that everyone last person on earth is justified, I say you've got some serious repenting to do, or you need counseling or psychological help.

I contend that UOJ is why few in the LCMS or WELS have a problem being scrooges toward seminary students and the seminaries. The LCMS has a $1.1 billion budget, and yet it cannot squeeze out a couple million bucks to help make seminary affordable. So then we end up with a half-educated clergy not knowing Hebrew, German, Latin, etc. Dare I say quarter-educated?!

The situation bring 1Ki 11:11 to mind. Here's a paraphrase:

So the LORD said to the LCMS and WELS and ELS, "Since this is your attitude and have not educated your clergy properly despite your $1.1 billion budget, I will most certainly tear the Kingdom of God away from you and give it to some other denomination and people on another continent."

Heavens to Betsy, Amy

Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "This Is Your Hero - Mark Jeske - WELS and LCMS":

Jeske is the Emergent New Age front man for the (W)ELS/LCMS common law merger. If he wasn't, he wouldn't still be there. Same with the Jeske's illegitimate offspring, Ski and Glende.

What does Jeske teach about Heaven?

"Q: What will we do there - sit on clouds and sing eternal praises?"

"Pastor Jeske: To me that's one of the most pathetic images of heavenly life, so injurious to our faith that it must haven been designed by Satan's P.R. team. Heaven will not be boring!"

When I asked Time Of Grace why Jeske would make such blasphemous statements they said his comments were taken out of context. Then proceeded to make the same remarks.

Good morning Brett,
Thank you for your email and for taking the time to contact us. I wish I could tell you that Pastor Jeske has time to respond to all questions and contact we receive at Time of Grace, but unfortunately that is not possible. The Time of Grace team, however, appreciates all contact and will respond to the best of our ability.
The quote you mention below, if taken as is, and out of context, would certainly appear to be somewhat disturbing. What could possibly be wrong with singing eternal praises to our God in heaven? However, in context, the point of Pastor Jeske's response is that Satan has done a very good job of detracting from our anticipated heavenly joy by painting heaven as boring
and anti-climactic. Honestly, who wants to sit on a cloud and sing all day?
And we've all heard the jokes about the good ole rascals down in hell having a great time living it up with their sinful ways. Sounds like a subtle scheme of Satan's to make us question the goal of our heavenly home and make us think that this world is the best it's gonna get, instead of embracing the fact that the best is yet to come. No wonder we get so attached to this world and can't bear to consider our mortality.
Through Pastor Jeske's messages I have a newfound anticipation of the currently unimaginable joys that await me in heaven. God has been silent with all the details, but as Pastor Jeske explained in the rest of his answer to that question - it won't be boring!
Thanks again for your interest, I hope this response has been helpful.
Blessings,
Amy

Amy Brinkman
Time of Grace Ministry
PO Box 301
Milwaukee, WI 53201
414-562-8463 phone
414-562-8464 fax
timeofgrace.org

Grace Does Not Equal Forgiveness

LutherRocks has left a new comment on your post "Why DP Buchholz Will Not Discipline Church and Cha...":

Grace does not equal forgiveness. This is another fallacy that I think some believe. By grace God makes forgiveness possible for those who believe in His promises; just like atonement does not equal universal forgiveness/justification.

JK

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GJ - Joe Krohn is making a good point here, one which seems to have evaded many of the clergy.

Terms must be distinguished unless they are synonyms. The Holy Spirit chose to communicate the Gospel in the most precise and flexible language on earth - Greek.

The Scriptures clearly teach that God gives us grace only through Instruments, the Means of Grace, the Word and Sacraments.

Universalists reason that a gracious God would forgive all sins. Karl Barth, the official theologian of Fuller Seminary taught that opinion in his Dogmatics, written with the help of his live-in mistress Charlotte Kirschbaum. In fact, she probably wrote most of it. Barth was dishonest in his politics, theology, and marriage. When someone assumes that everyone is forgiven and saved, anything is possible and excused in the name of grace.

This photo shows Charlotte standing next to Barth,
but it does not reveal what other pictures do -
she was hawt!
Kirschbaum also helped him promote Communism.

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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Grace Does Not Equal Forgiveness":

Pr Greg.

Joe indeed makes good points. Your statement When someone assumes that everyone is forgiven and saved, anything is possible and excused in the name of grace is very true, this is what does happen. Everyone is excused in the name of grace so anything goes.

LPC

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GJ - I contend that UOJ is the falsehood behind the famously bad behavior of WELS clergy and the criminal cover-ups of the synod officials.

Cone Discovered the Very First Brief Statement

DP Buchholz agrees with Jeff Gunn about UOJ
and the need to send youth to Jeske's Church and Change meeting,
featuring Jeff Gunn!


Cone has left a new comment on your post "Why DP Buchholz Will Not Discipline Church and Cha...":

Sickening.

This made me laugh though:

"[GJ - This means that Jesus Himself issued the Brief Statement of 1932, 1900 years earlier. In other words, the Savior told the world that every single person, including Judas Iscariot, was forgiven.]"

This Is Your Hero - Mark Jeske - WELS and LCMS

No wonder the Trifecta is scheduled for May - all three Synod Presidents support the same drivel.

Kevin Hastings

WELS "Time Of Grace" broadcast, "Celebrate the Diversity of Heaven" - When did our Lord Jesus Christ replace Faith with Diversity as the entrance to heaven? Romans 1:16, "I am quite ashamed of the Gospel of Christ" as it is broadcast now.

Why DP Buchholz Will Not Discipline Church and Changer Jeff Gunn

Jeff Gunn, WELS Emerging Church Pastor:
"Second, receive Jesus’ forgiveness.  When Jesus died on the cross, the entire world was forgiven.  That means you.  The person who repents of his sin can know beyond any shadow of a doubt that all sins are forgiven already through Jesus.  Jesus will absorb your doubt and give you assurance that your sins too are fully forgiven."

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GJ - DP Buchholz teaches the same doctrine as Gunn, the only one that matters to the Wisconsin sect - Universal Objective Justification.

Here is Buchholz on the same topic. He gave an essay at the WELS convention and no one opposed his false doctrine. Here are some samples:

• In this great transaction that took place on the cross, God removed the guilt of the world’s sin and replaced it with the righteousness of Christ. [GJ - This is universal absolution, the basic tenet of the Kokomo Statements.]
• The truth that a person must be individually justified through faith does not undermine the general, once-for-all justification accomplished on Calvary. Some have wrongly supposed that Christ’s justifying work on Calvary was incomplete, and that faith is required to make justification complete. This is not a biblical understanding of justification. It nullifies Jesus’ declaration from the cross, “It is finished,” by saying that the justification of the world really isn’t finished, or that when Jesus said, “It is finished,” he meant something other than the justification of the world. It inserts an additional cause for man’s salvation beyond the grace of God and merits of Christ and includes faith as a cause of salvation. It redefines faith as something that brings about an effect and causes forgiveness and justification to take place. [GJ - This means that Jesus Himself issued the Brief Statement of 1932, 1900 years earlier. In other words, the Savior told the world that every single person, including Judas Iscariot, was forgiven.]
• “God has declared the entire world righteous.” This statement is true, as we understand it to mean that God has rendered a verdict of “not-guilty” toward the entire world. It is also true—and must be taught—that the righteousness of Christ now stands in place of the world’s sin; this is the whole point of what Jesus did for us at Calvary. However, once again we’re wresting a term out of its usual context. In Scripture the term “righteous” usually refers to believers. [GJ - Usually? No, only to believers.]
• The forgiveness acquired by Jesus for all at the cross gives us confessional Lutherans, among all the church bodies of the world, the highest motivation to share our Savior. In contrast to the “Jesus Saves” churches, we don’t preach a salvation that is incomplete and just waiting for the sinner to do something to complete the transaction. We proclaim boldly, “Jesus Saved,” past tense, finished, certain. [GJ - And he took Becker and the JP Meyer Kokomo Statements to task for being muddled? According to DP Buchholz, the world is already saved. That is Universalism, the last belch of UOJ. He is not alone in WELS/ELS in stating that the entire world is both forgiven and saved.]

WELS To Proclaim To Youth at Mark Jeske Rally: "Jesus Is My Rice! And Jeff Gunn Is His Prophet."

Buchholz' Emmanuel church is advertising and participating in the Mark Jeske WELS Teen Rally. See the Emmanuel January 2011 church newsletter -

2011 WELS Teen Rally
"We will have three large group speakers -- a high school teacher, seminary
professor and a pastor in a church aggressively reaching the lost. Their presentations will be bold, use technology and will feed into small group discussion to help all bring God's message home."

Here's the link. Look down at the daily schedule. On Friday, July 27th:

Pastor Jeff Gunn is the "pastor of a church aggressively reaching the lost."
7pm Large Group Presentation -- "MOG -- Me-Our-Group" by Pastor Jeff Gunn

http://www.welsteenrally.com/Content/2011-Youth-Rally-Initial-Letter.pdf

"As of this writing there are no regional WELS rallies planned for 2011, but
the Southeastern Wisconsin and Western Wisconsin WELS Districts are
endorsing this rally. WELS teen leaders from various WELS churches are
organizing this rally that is sponsored by St. Marcus Lutheran Church in
Milwaukee."

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GJ - The Church and Changers come and go, but they seldom go far away.

The problem is not so much with the Changers, but with the Doctrinal Pussycat enablers.

DP Buchholz' Star Chamber committee has met and decided the fate of Jeff Gunn, I am told.

Every time another big threat is mentioned, Gunn is honored by WELS.

The Boomers are the problem in WELS, according to Buchholz. Jon does not look old enough to be a Boomer.

Wouldn't It Be Great If All the Public Schools Taught Drivel Like This?

This is from the church newsletter of Reform District President Jon Buchholz.

The same newsletter announces the Kingdom Workers workshop to be led by David Kehl, one of the Church and Changers released from The Guilt Factory. Kehl is at Atonement, Milwaukee, so he did not face unemployment for more than a few seconds.

Buchholz told me that the Church Growth problem in WELS came from the Baby Boomers, grinning at me.

I was told by Someone-Who-Knows that Buchholz was against the CG crazies.

Evidence to support that claim is entirely missing.