One Sane Voice on LutherQuest (sic)

Daniel Gorman (Heinrich) Senior Member Username: Heinrich Post Number: 1634 Registered: 11-2004

Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 11:28 am:       Louis Benoit: "Can't we cut the WELS some slack for their alleged failures in the way they dealt with him? Perhaps it was his arrogant dismissal of the pure teaching he had been taught on this subject that provoked a response such as he got? Can we give the WELS a break on this one?" What response? I've done many google searches. I have yet to find a single disparaging comment from the WELS Az-Ca DP regarding the content of Rev. Rydecki's public teachings. Rev. Rydecki posts his sermons on the internet. If his sermons are so egregious, why hasn't the WELS Az-Ca DP publicly reproved him? "For where the sin is public, the reproof also must be public, that every one may learn to guard against it." LC, 8th Commandment. This isn't the first time the WELS Az-Ca DP has rendered a guilt verdict against a sitting pastor on secret charges at a secret trial without ever "telling it to church" http://www.lutherquest.org/cgi-bin/discus40/show.c gi?tpc=105754&post=267113#POST267113. The secret removal of a minister from the roster of a district presumes a papist reservation of cases. The members of the district are powerless to overturn an unjust removal. The true cause of the removal is never made public by the district and open discussion of the issues is forbidden. Secret removal of a sitting pastor is an offense against the unity of Christ's church and is never justified. We may confidently say that Pr. Rydecki was removed by the WELS Az-Ca DP for no biblical reason. The gospel does not permit DP to be lords over churches and to secretly remove their pastors from Christian fellowship.