The CORE, which is the sheep-stealing operation of St. Peter Cares, Freedom, must not be doing well. They are in their third headquarters since starting and blowing through tons of money.
The Savoy WELS parish that Glende abandoned would be happy to have the money spent on sending Glende and Sk to:
- Stanley's gay liberation parish in Atlanta,
- Granger's Schwaermer farm,
- and Driscoll's cussing operation in the Northwest.
Did they miss any conference? Yes - Deutschlander's in Atlanta.
The Pietists want to direct all attention to themselves, which is why they end up with entertainment evangelism. Ski shows up at a classic Lutheran church looking like he was hired to bail hay, and they photograph the debacle and proof they are real, relational, and relevant.
The Pietists promote their shallow dogma because they cannot teach the Word of God. To make up for it, they plagiarize other Pietists who have a following for the moment. Birds of a feather do flock together, so they are one with Paul McCain, who is happy to have someone take him seriously.
The Pietists are outraged over Luther, because they cannot shoehorn his plain, simple words into their self-serving fantasies. They pretend to be furious about this or that, like Schroeder and Hochmuth writing a letter against ELCA (while working with ELCA). But their clever Pietism always bites them. That is the problem with substituting the sect for the Gospel - "Join us because we do not promote homosexuality. We are so much better than ELCA."
Those who live by legalism die by legalism.
Judging from the accumulated blather from WELS, Missouri, the Little Sect, and some fragments - faith in Christ is very bad. However, these same wizards love and praise unfaith, teaching the salvation of unbelievers, world without end, Amen!
Needless to say, their leaders have to be bailed out of the pokey on a regular basis. That is done in secrecy, if at all possible. If not, the episode is flushed down the memory hole and no one remembers it at all.
Pietists are offended by everything, especially the Gospel. Therefore, their entire effort is a ministry of condemnation, except when they are praising themselves.
Imagine this - Glende and Ski plagiarize the same source, Groeschel or some other Enthusiast. Next they praise each other for doing "such a good job" on the alleged sermon.
The people who listen to this without gagging are only too happy to have more of the same. Eventually they will be Unitarians, Pentecostals, or Buddhists, like their Church Growth leaders.
Their lack of fidelity--in many areas--motivates them to find an unfaithful translation of the Bible. How can they preach on the Ten Commandments when they flaunt their opposition to the First Table?
Deception follows deception.
