- Round Rock, Texas.
- Indianapolis.
- Love's Park.
- Appleton.
Answer - each one started a new WELS mission or church near an existing one, making it easy to skim members and waste even more money.
Round Rock is pretty interesting, with DP-elect Patterson and Ex-SP Gurgle scraping up money to build a new parish near Doebler's Round Rock mission congregation. That is how GM became Government Motors, building one franchise after another next to older, existing GM dealers.
Appleton is even funnier. I can imagine Keith Free saying to the bean-counters, "We need to plant a WELS church in Appleton."
"Another one?"
Free - "This is a downtown ministry."
"Another WELS church downtown?"
Free - "Appleton is under-served by WELS."
" But WELS parishes are thicker than flies on buttermilk in Fox Valley."
Free - "Appleton is under-served by Emergent Churches."
"There must be nine there already, including another one in the old WELS church building The CORE is leaving."
Free - "It is a felt need."
"Whose?"
Free - "Nevermind."
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Stinky Old Bar Sold for $500-850,000! Savoy, Illin...":
Answer: None of them.
Three are non-denominational and the fourth claims to be Lutheran in name only - doctrine and practice actually make them non-denominational metho-bapti-penti-newage.
After reading about each it was interesting how similar The Core is with The Mission Church (an honest non-denom).
http://www.themissionchurch.us/#/im-new/who-we-are
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GJ - I sure would like a copy of DP Doug's epic "Clarion Call," justifying plagiarism of Groeschel. His thesis gives away the fact that he approves of Glende and Ski passing off Groeschel's sermons as their own. How can I tell without reading the essay? According to Light from Light, the excuse was this - If the author gives permission to use the material, it is not plagiarism.
That has Groeschel's fingerprints all over it, because Life Church gives people permission to use the sermons, graphics, videos, introductions, etc.
Missing from that essay, do doubt, is the admonition from Groeschel to tell the audience that the sermon is from him. He even warned ministers that some had been fired for not telling the congregation the truth about their source. Imagine that - it could not have been WELS!
The Emergent Church fad is incredibly boring and predictable. They follow a rigid pattern--from the wrinkled jeans and shirt hanging over the belt to the snacks and soda "worship" with a rock band. They all copy each other, never thinking they are preparing the audience for Unitarian Universalism.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/february/11.35.html
Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Stinky Old Bar Sold for $500-850,000! Savoy, Illin...":
Answer: None of them.
Three are non-denominational and the fourth claims to be Lutheran in name only - doctrine and practice actually make them non-denominational metho-bapti-penti-newage.
After reading about each it was interesting how similar The Core is with The Mission Church (an honest non-denom).
http://www.themissionchurch.us/#/im-new/who-we-are
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GJ - I sure would like a copy of DP Doug's epic "Clarion Call," justifying plagiarism of Groeschel. His thesis gives away the fact that he approves of Glende and Ski passing off Groeschel's sermons as their own. How can I tell without reading the essay? According to Light from Light, the excuse was this - If the author gives permission to use the material, it is not plagiarism.
That has Groeschel's fingerprints all over it, because Life Church gives people permission to use the sermons, graphics, videos, introductions, etc.
Missing from that essay, do doubt, is the admonition from Groeschel to tell the audience that the sermon is from him. He even warned ministers that some had been fired for not telling the congregation the truth about their source. Imagine that - it could not have been WELS!
The Emergent Church fad is incredibly boring and predictable. They follow a rigid pattern--from the wrinkled jeans and shirt hanging over the belt to the snacks and soda "worship" with a rock band. They all copy each other, never thinking they are preparing the audience for Unitarian Universalism.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/february/11.35.html
