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| Al Sorum is one of the Church Growth plants at The Sausage Factory. |
Emergent characteristics are:
No liturgy.
No sacraments.
No pipe organ.
No hymns.
No sermons.
No creeds.
Jon Buchholz on CrossWalk - "No problem!"
The clergy dress like they are going to mow the hay or change the oil.
They advocate and practice women's ordination.
They have movies screens for their anything goes song lyrics.
The Lutherans often copy the sermons of their emergent heroes, like Groeschel.
They train with gay activist Stanley, cussing Calvinist Driscoll, space cadet Sweet, Babtist Stetzer, Beeson at Granger, Hyles at Willow Creek, the divinity school at Trinity Deerfield, and various morons at Fuller Seminary. WELS pastors like Rich Krause, John Parlow, Paul Kelm, Steve Witte, Larry Olson have DMins from various false teaching schools. But of course, Mequon itself is a Fuller clone now. They just do not grant drive-by DMins.
WELS has emergent churches all over - The CORE, Doebler's Rock and Roll Church, the Chicago one (where the pastor just loved Leonard Sweet).
The ELS has one too.
Missouri is loaded with them, and ELCA tries its hand claw at them as well.
Missouri and WELS congregations have actually joined the Willow Creek Association, returning them to the good old days of the Pietistic union churches. St. Paul in Germantown (Columbus, Ohio) was a union church for Lutherans and Reformed. So was historic St. John in Milwaukee, if memory serves me.
ELCA went back to union churches, after separating them for a time. WELS, Missouri, and the ELS are up to date with ELCA because they all work together, plan together, and prostitute themselves for Thrivent grants together.
Missouri and WELS congregations have actually joined the Willow Creek Association, returning them to the good old days of the Pietistic union churches. St. Paul in Germantown (Columbus, Ohio) was a union church for Lutherans and Reformed. So was historic St. John in Milwaukee, if memory serves me.
ELCA went back to union churches, after separating them for a time. WELS, Missouri, and the ELS are up to date with ELCA because they all work together, plan together, and prostitute themselves for Thrivent grants together.
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| Not a Photoshop - Mark Driscoll is the cussing pastor. Dressing silly seems to be a requirement. Face mikes - so cool. |
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| Craig Groeschel is a Methodist EC emergent leader. Two others are Ed Stetzer, Babtist; Leonard Sweet - New Age. WELS adores all three false teachers. |
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| Left to right: Parlow, Jeske, Kelm, and Patterson work together against Lutheran doctrine, so they get the synod and Thrivent loot. |
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| Andy Stanley is a closeted Babtist. His church does not admit to be Babtist, but they dedicated babies instead of baptizing them. WELS workers like Ski, Glende, Buske, Parlow worship with Stanley - and love it. |
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| Gretchen earned a regal salary at Doebler's emergent mission in Round Rock. Doebler famously prayed for a $200,000 grant to hire a worship leader. In the old days, that was called a pastor. |
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| Dr. Moo wants you to buy the NNIV, ideal for Emergent Churches. |
