C. F. W. Walther's 200th Anniversary: Start Telling the Truth

Joe Krohn And a Solution for WELS - From a Veteran

About Joe Krohn:

Frankly, this kind of junk is going and has been going on in WELS for decades – even generations – with Pastors as well as with laypeople. You and I both know many people who have been affected. I’ve howled about it often, and I know you did when you were still in WELS. Nothing has changed – in fact, it’s gotten worse. 

Of course, it still should be “outed” whenever possible. But don’t think for a second that it will make any difference in the long run, because it won’t. That’s not defeatism, that’s just plain reality, pure and simple. 

Just another sad case in a long, long history of sad cases. 

The WELS cannot be “fixed” as it is – it must be dismembered, dismantled, and destroyed – and something new must be begun from scratch to take its place. And that’s the honest truth. 


But that also is VERY unlikely to happen, regardless of anything you or I or any group does. If it’s going to happen, God’s going to have to pull the trigger! 

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GJ - I agree with the author up to a point. There is nothing I can do, except teach sound doctrine whether anyone else does or not. Secondly, I can repudiate false doctrine, in spite of the consequences. The Word of God converts and hardens. I have seen both effects.

What Is the Difference between Notre Dame and Fuller Seminary? - Asks Artful Dodger

Catholic (President Hesburgh), Lutheran (Proto-Ichabod), Protestant (John Howard Yoder) theologians gathered for a little ceremony, 1982.

Artful Dodger wanted to know what the difference was between my study at Notre Dame and the people I criticize for studying at Fuller Seminary. I am only too happy to reply.

First of all, I have never lied about going to Notre Dame or Yale or anywhere else. In contrast, David Valleskey lied to my face about studying at Fuller Seminary. His friend, Frosty Bivens, boasted about studying there - in front of the entire Midland circuit, but he also denied studying there. Larry Olson's friend blew smoke in Christian News about Our Staff Infection going to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl Parade when Olson had already written about his slobbery pilgrimage to visit Don McGavran, snake-oil salesman founder of Church Growth and Charlatan Emeritus at Fuller.

Second. Notre Dame and Yale were purely academic programs, aimed at producing scholars. I did not have to adhere to a particular confession of faith. In contrast, Fuller is a seminary that pretends to be a graduate school. Fuller has a definite stance against the inerrancy of the Scriptures and disciplines those students who disagree with women's ordination. Even more significant, Fuller teaches a particular kind of ministry, based upon an ideological mix of marketing, Pentecostalism, rationalism, and sociology. Fuller is the home and headquarters for the odious Church Growth Movement. Its purpose is not to produce scholars but to manufacture disciples of Church Growth, who will bring in more disciples for Church Growth. Fuller grads identify with Church Growth, and all Church Growth advocates look at Fuller with fond, deluded devotion.

Third. Fuller does not see itself as an academic program. Its professors get degrees from real schools. Even Pentecostal Babtist C. Peter Wagner (recommended by WELS Pastor Reuel Schulz) earned a degree at Princeton. Several earned degrees under Karl Barth in Switzerland. Faculty at Yale and Notre Dame have degrees from those schools or from those considered their equals. They would laugh at a DMin from Fuller teaching anything.

Fourth. This is the most important. Missouri, WELS, the Little Sect, and ELCA have shown institutional support for Fuller Seminary by sending their leadership there for training, supporting that education with money from the offerings, and promoting those lucky devils with Fuller educations. Almost 100% of the Lutheran leadership in America has identified with an anti-Lutheran, anti-Confessional, anti-Scriptural seminary, because Fuller has the answers and Lutheran doctrine does not - they imagine. In fact, WELS is so far up the digestive tract of Fuller that they can see the bottom of Kent Hunter's shoes. Moreover, WELS is so deeply involved in training at Trinity Divinity in Deerfield that the sect was listed twice in the Trinity catalogue.

The Lutheran church bodies have no commitment to genuine Lutheran scholarship, such as Luther studies or publishing the works of Lutheran orthodoxy. But they are united in working together on the basis of the Fuller Seminary ideology, best expressed by the numbskulls who plagiarized Groeschel, Stanley, and the rest.

LCMS Professor Installing Woman Pastor at Valpo: WELS Advocates the Same Thing

LCMS Professor Becker replies to Daniel Gard's Post on ALPB Online Forum - 

Re: Valparaiso University and The LCMS

« Reply #451 on: Yesterday at 06:24:32 PM »

Quote from: Daniel L. Gard on Yesterday at 05:12:47 PM

Prof. Becker,

I see you photograph quite well.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/valparaiso/article_3c7957fe-61c1-5f4c-85a6-f5e681a76c5c.html

Thank you.

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VALPARAISO | In an intimate Sunday afternoon service at the Chapel of the Resurrection, the Rev. Charlene M. Rachuy Cox was installed as a pastor at Valparaiso University.

About 100 people gathered for the service to celebrate Cox's new university ministry.

The Rev. William Gafkjen, bishop of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, presided over the ceremony, during which assisting ministers laid hands on Cox for an official blessing.

Gafkjen prayed "the God of peace ... equip you with everything good that you may do his will" as the audience looked on.

A group of VU students presented Cox with objects symbolic of her role at the university -- a baptismal pitcher, a Bible, and a chalice and paten.

Read more: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/valparaiso/article_3c7957fe-61c1-5f4c-85a6-f5e681a76c5c.html#ixzz1Wrrm6r7q

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GJ

Matthew Becker is the editor of the Daystar Reader, with Daystar and Jesus First serving as the Left wing of the LCMS.

Becker wants to be the Herman Otten of the Missouri apostates.