Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Promoting Mark Jeske

Time for Tubby Bye-Bye!
Time for Tubby Bye-Bye!
Time for Tubby Bye-Bye!



Ichabod -

Today I received an email from my Bay County, Michigan pastor, Mark Luetzow. This email was sent Bcc - so, I assume [think] that it was also sent to our congregation's total membership - at least those who have their email addresses on the church directory here at Bethel Lutheran.

In this short 6:05 minute message, out of state and Thrivent Board member, WELS Pastor Mark Jeske, of St. Marcus Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, stated the following, regarding the recent Aurora, Colorado shooting massacre:

"......and this is a solid reminder that there is no point in putting off our thinking of our Savior, till another day; or that we're all guaranteed to have plenty of time to take care of our spiritual responsibilities......

......through the forgiveness of sins in Jesus, we become immortal.And, we will rise from the dead, just like him."

Aforementioned taken from:

Mark Jeske's "Time of Grace" - "Colorado theater shooting: reflection and prayer"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTznBNZ3Mi0&feature=youtu.be

I wonder how many other WELS pastors circulate Mark Jeske's "Time of Grace" utube videos? This is the first time that I've seen and heard this "Time of Grace." And, if many of them are like this, I would have to conclude that Rev. Mark Jeske is one of those Christian pastors who regularly preach the twisted teaching of "universal objective justification" as I've also been hearing from our own church, here at Bethel Lutheran:

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/07/pastor-nathan-bickel-on-uoj-in-wels.html

I find it sad and pathetic that a Christian pastor - especially a Lutheran pastor would preach his devotion to a mixed online audience and not differentiate between Christian and non Christian; regenerate and unregenerate; believer and unbeliever - and, in the context, not to preach repentance and faith [justification by faith alone as Luther taught it]. It was if Rev. Jeske was speaking to a Christian congregation when, in reality, he is speaking to a mixed audience of Christians and the unregenerate. To speak of Christ, the Savior as "'our Savior" to a mixed audience - some, or many of whom are heathen, is neither proper or scripturally, wise. [God is not your Father, unless you are one of His children].

Then, Rev. Jeske makes the statement - "......through the forgiveness of sins in Jesus, we become immortal. And, we will rise from the dead, just like him."  That is not Scriptural! It is by God's grace, through faith [in Christ] that a person becomes one of God's children and becomes a member of the Lord's heavenly throng. [Ephesians 2:8;9]

What is the Gospel? How is it perverted?

http://www.thechristianmessage.org/2012/05/what-is-gospel-how-is-it-perverted.html

Finally, the more I hear from WELS pastors, the more I hear a corrupted message - that "universal objective justification" teaching which takes the Scriptural place of grace through faith generated by God the Holy Spirit - that "justification by faith alone" teaching as Luther taught it. It's as if all, these universalism preachers can understand, is John 3:16 and not the whole chapter in context.

Pastor emeritus Nathan M. Bickel

www.thechristianmessage.org

www.moralmatters.org