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| Pastor Otten died April 24th, 2019 |
BREAKING NEWS: Pastor Herman Otten leaving Trinity Lutheran Church after 55 years | www.quicknewhavennews.com:
New Haven, Mo. –PastorHerman Otten officially announced in a press release this morning the he will be leaving Trinity Lutheran Church after 55 years.
Otten will remain editor of Christian News “To promote 21st century reformation and realignment in all of Christendom."
In a “Farewell Address” that Otten had presented in a voters meeting at Trinity Lutheran Church on July 15 announced that he would be leaving Trinity after 55 years as pastor on Easter 2013. He said he wants to give Trinity time to call a new pastor. Few congregations have kept their same pastor for so many years.
Otten, however, will not be retiring from the ministry. He will continue serving as editor of Christian News, now in its 50th year with issue No. 2,326, until a new editor takes over. Otten said once he no longer has weekly pastoral duties he plans to travel promoting the need for a realignment in Christendom and a 21st Century Reformation as the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s
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| Otten promoted this book for the Reformation, because he said, he "sells both sides of the issue." |
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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "BREAKING NEWS: Pastor Herman Otten leaving Trinity...":
Before Al Gore invented the Internet, Christian News certainly filled an information void left by official denominational publications and rags like Christianity Today. I used to read CN from front page to back every week. It was there that I discovered a middle aged Lutheran pastor who was selling cassette tapes and other materials, including posters, which opposed the Church Growth Movement. Needless to say, I eventually stopped being a synod minder. Corky Koeplin also had his essay, "Whither WELS" published in CN.
News travels a whole lot faster these days. But I wonder whether the Intrepid Lutherans would have been possible if all that there was for alternative news was CN. By the way, that Lutheran Pastor wore a roman collar. We all know who that was.
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GJ - Little Ichabod helped me get started with Martin Chemnitz Press. I did a "This is your brain on Church Growth" poster. Someone reported seeing that hanging in a seminary dorm room. I also wrote an article on amalgamation and lead, which was cut out of CN and posted in a dorm. Little things like that made me think the good yeast was leavening the dough.
I sent Corky's essay to Christian News and got reamed out by a "friend" for doing so. My name was not associated with the article, but I picked up the phone and got the usual WELS rant - not unlike Cascione's accusation that I wrote the anti-UOJ essay composed by his LCMS colleague. However, I was guilty as sin and free as a bird.
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