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| Craig Groeschel is the theologian of Fox Valley, WELS. |
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| Screaming and shouting are poor substitutes for the Word of God. |
Fuller Seminary? - Nope. Valleskey, Bivens, Olson, Kelm, and many others advanced their careers with study at Fuller Seminary. All the American missions people were sent there by WELS, and doubtless the world mission guys too. Ask Brazil about Richard Starr's video-tape evangelism, because traditional methods were too slow for him. Hint - learning the language really helps.
Trinity in Deerfield? - Nope. WELS spent so much offering money there that Trinity mentioned The Love Shack twice in bragging about support from other denominations.
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| Witte carries out the Church and Change mission in Asia, as he did in Fox Valley - twice. |
Brandeis? - Nope. John Lawrenz, another early Church and Changer, earned a real doctorate there. "Everything has to change" was a sermon he gave long before Brian McLaren.
Willow Creek? - Nope. WELS routinely sent its mission pastors to Willow Creek to learn how its done. Your offering money at work. Several WELS congregations were outed at Willow Creek Association members, a small indication of the unionism of WELS.
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| Where did all those women ministers come from? McGavran |
Andy Stanley's Gay Lib Training Camps? - Nope. Ski and Bishop Katy bragged that eight (8) WELS workers were there for training. Ski also boasted that he could have attended the WELS conference in Atlanta, where Deutschlander spoke, but no, he was there for Stanley.
Every wonder why Stanley looks so sad in all his photos? I do.
Leonard Sweet? - Nope. When Kelm sponsored Sweet for a Church and Change buzzerei, which was heavily attended and supported by WELS. In fact, WELS offering money financed the start of Church and Change.
Denver Babtist? - Nope. John Parlow got his drive-by degree there. He was a member of the Willow Creek ministerium. He went to the Stanley worship conferences. He loves every denomination but his own, but that never hurt him one little bit.
Mark Driscoll? - Nope. Ski and Tim Glende went to be trained by the cussing pastor, pretending they were at a WELS conference in the worship bulletin. There were no WELS conferences.
Andy Beeson? - Nope. Ski and Bishop Katy went to the Granger Community Church for more training. Obviously this was not virgin territory for WELS, since a former member of Jeske's church (where Ski and Katy worked together) greeted them. She had joined Granger and was happy to see them at the conference. Twitter is a tattle-tale.
Concordia, St. Louis? - Nope. Paul Calvin Kelm got a drive-by DMin in Church Growth there. Kelm is also a double-dipper, with study at Fuller and heaven knows how many other schools of Enthusiasm.
Union Consortium, Ohio? - Nope. Richard Krause went there for a drive-by DMin, supervised by Larry Olson, his Church Growth buddy, who got his drive-by from Fuller Seminary.
Groeschel-Stanley? - Ski and Glende went to one of those joint conferences, I believe. They are smitten with both men, whether they saw them on the same day or not.
Ed Stetzer? - Church and Change invited him to head up one of their conferences. Missouri did the same, and Stetzer bragged about it while making fun of Lutheran doctrine. I kept posting about this travesty, and WELS kept denying it was happening until it was canceled.
Exponential? - Kudu Don Patterson was only a district vice-president when he took five workers to Exponential. I believe that was where Stetzer was hired to speak for Church and Change. Patterson has denied being a Church and Changer, but he went to their "last" conference and spoke at another one. The district rewarded Don with elevation to District President, even though he is loathed far and wide as a nasty little man.
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| Parlow, Jeske, Kelm, Patterson. Mequon asked Kelm and Patterson to help them guide future pastors in their training. As the teenagers say, "Seriously?" |
Conclusion
If you want to get ahead in WELS, study with the worst false teachers and adopt their anti-Biblical doctrine and methods. You will go far, young man.
