Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant Goes Digital

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Where Is the Love?Fox Valley Offers the Ecumenical Love of PietismIn Place of the God's Love in the Means of Grace

Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "WELS Pastor Joel Lillo Asks for a Different Photo....":

It captures the combination of bemusment (sic) and sadness I get when reading your contribution to the web

What I hear is:

"Where's the love? It's like, this blog just doesn't get it. Doesn't Ichabod know that the (W)ELS New Age Emergent ministries are just head over heals in love with Jesus and just want to share that with everyone and in any way that the world might be open to. The old ways aren't working anymore and the New Age evangelicals are blazing new trails into methods that work, methods that are relevant and methods that people today are interested in. If (W)ELS wants to relate to people of today they're going to have to change, stop talking about doctrine which divides Christ's people, all people, and live the life Christ wants us to live, working for him, because when we finally get it and hand over our lives to him, he succeeds."

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GJ - Glende and Lillo are bummed because Katy Perry's evangelist mother is upset about her daughter's boobs wardrobe malfunctions.

Their precious UOJ is under assault by one of their own - Gausewitz, who was pastor of Grace, Milwaukee and head of the Olde Synodical Conference. WELS taught justification by faith in its Gausewitz catechism, 1917-1982, then miraculously discovered UOJ in the David Kuske catechism of 1982.

The Enthusiasts of Fox Valley do not mind if I quote Luther, Chemnitz, Melanchthon, or Chytraeus. Their pals do not know or remember any of those dudes. They are like the confirmation students who say, "Moses? Heard of him." But Gausewitz was a household term in WELS for many decades and highly respected in the Synodical Conference.

Thank you, researchers and emailers who brought this up. More on the topic will appear shortly.

WELS Pastor Joel Lillo Asks for a Different Photo. Fox Valley Circles the Wagons:Pass the Popcorn

Greg,

If you're going to feature me on your blog, would you please use the

attached picture. It captures the combination of bemusment (sic) and

sadness I get when reading your contribution to the web.

--Joel

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GJ - Joel, do not use antique words that you cannot spell. It makes you and WELS look riddikalus.

Tim Glende Is Growing Desperate

Glende and Ski are quite familiar with crabs.

Tim Glende unburdened himself again on his anonymous blog. At least he did not steal one of my copyrighted Photoshops this time. But, I still see graphics, stolen from me, on his blog. Someone should remind Tim that he is not above the law, even if his uncle teaches at The Sausage Factory.

I have urged Tim to continue publishing his blog. His quarterly rate of posting seems to have picked up a little, but his logic is still at the repeat-after-me stage. Sadly, the WELS clerics learn little critical thinking on their way to that cherished diploma. Tim is a good example of that shortcoming.

Because a free copy of Schmid is linked on my blog, Glende thinks that his copied quotes from Schmid prove I am a false teacher. Do not warm Ichabodians to our task, o Tim the Plagiarist. You are the one who has stolen entire sermons and graphics from Groeschel, to keep St. Peter Freedom from dying (!?). Tim, the unrepentant, you had the Doctrinal Pussycat fire the circuit pastor for daring to confront you about plagiarism.

Besides, your own publishing house has translated and printed Schmid's History of Pietism. You are indicting yourself, your publishing house, and your synod. If it is wrong to refer to Schmid, how much worse is it to publish the alleged heresiarch?

My copy of Schmid is from the Mequon book sale, so Tim is accusing all the clergy of WELS, since Schmid was quite popular at one time in WELS. All Schmid did in his excellent book was collect orthodox quotations from various sources. There is nothing quite like it in Lutheran publishing. Tim would not know that, since he concentrates on the real, relevant, and relational stuff from the Enthusiasts.

Schmid was quite learned but not the best writer. His History of Pietism could not be repeated by anyone today.

Tim is a bullying liar. He has to come out of the blogging closet and reveal himself, no longer staying anonymous, if he wants anyone to take him seriously. (Anyone besides Englebrecht!)

Here is an example of his fractured sentence construction:

"But from what we have seen on his blog, and in spite of the degrees he boasts of from such illustrious liberal and Roman Catholic institutions as Yale and Notre Dame, we doubt he has the capacity to do that."

I did not know Yale was a liberal Roman Catholic institution!

Glende expects a lawyer from his congregation to be in awe of the superb education at Mequon and NWC - an education so vast and deep that no one is worthy of debating any doctrinal topic with Herr Pastor. However, whenever Tim tries to write, he reveals himself as a clown who needs Groeschel to write his sermons, Driscoll to do his thinking, Stanley to guide his worship, and Satan to give him power.

A married pastor with children should not publish a photo of himself posing with a tart like Katy Perry. First of all, it shows no respect for his wife, family, or congregation. Secondly, it reveals the temperament of a cheat. WELS has a multi-faceted portrait of Max und Morris, Tim and Ski - both eager to pose with skags and false teachers, but loathe to study and teach Biblical Lutheran doctrine.