Are Some Churches Going 'Too Far' to Reach the Lost for Christ?, Christian News

"For a Thrivent grant I will ride shotgun at the Christian nightclub."

Are Some Churches Going 'Too Far' to Reach the Lost for Christ?, Christian News:


Mosaic church, an untraditional ministry in Chattanooga, Tenn., has been forced to relocate after a gang-related shooting occurred at its Christian nightclub, Club Fathom, during a Christmas party.

Mosaic will be leaving its current home by Jan. 31 “under the current mayor's administration and court rulings that gave us orders on how Mosaic is allowed to worship and what types of people we can or cannot allow at our worship services,” wrote the church's pastor, Tim Reid, in a Facebook comment.

“These orders make it impossible to live out the Gospel of Jesus Christ that teaches us to love and accept all,” he added.

The gang-related shooting occurred on Christmas Eve at neighboring Club Fathom, Mosaic Church’s urban youth outreach program.

The shootings occurred when the 400 participants of Club Fathom’s Christmas Eve party exited around midnight. Nine people were wounded in the shootings.



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Ichabod Effect - Again

A few posts ago I had fun with WELS posting a list of the Synodical Council Nenbers (sic). I noticed the spelling mistake a long time ago, but never said anything.

I finally pointed it out.

I wondered if they would react to my chuckle about this error, since "no one reads Ichabod." I looked it up and the link was gone.

My next question was - "Is the link gone and the page missing, or did they just remove the link so people would not look it up and laugh at their spelling?"

I found the original link in my post, which I preserve with the content, whenever possible. I learned from Ski that the WELSian sneaks will take down the link while leaving the material posted. If you search for churchfromscratch.net, you will get Doebler's copy and paste congregation, which uses another URL but still   links from the Church and Change URL. Somebody pays for that domain.

Here is the Synodical Council Nenbers list.

In conclusion, the WELS nenbers pay their synod leaders millions of dollars in overhead costs so the Conference of Pussycats can ponder the future far, far way - in sunshine, on the beaches, sipping some hard liquor. Meanwhile, they are too lazy to fix their spelling mistakes on their own website. That would have meant editing the PDF file and uploading the corrected file, about five minutes work. Instead, they erased the linking words, about 10 seconds work. Look at what they spend on "technology" each year.

Yes, they are reaching out with the Gospel, using Other People's Money to feed and water their paunches.

WELS COP Fiddles at a Resort While Their Nenbers Stuggle To Live

LutherRocks has left a new comment on your post "Samuel Huber and George Christian Knapp Are the Th...":

In a time where many, many people have become unemployed and underemployed; working more than one job, or flat out quit looking because there is nothing and still throw into the offering plate on Sundays while giving up certain things...probably more than they should out of love for their Savior and then these guys have the gall to do a retreat in Puerto Rico??? Wake up sheoples...kumbaya...

Nenbers is WELSian for Members.

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The funds are being used to publish more titles and to print more copies of Luther versus the UOJ Pietists: Justification by Faith. I give books away all the time, even though they cost me money to print.

I also give away the content of each title, with free PDF downloads. Do the synodical printing presses do that, in spite of having big bucks in the bank? No.

I am happy to give away content because the idea is to broadcast the Gospel using the efficacious Word.

I do not use Thrivent or any foundations.

VirtueOnline - News - Exclusives - LIMA, PERU: Reverse Ordinariate set up to receive Roman Catholic Bishop

VirtueOnline - News - Exclusives - LIMA, PERU: Reverse Ordinariate set up to receive Roman Catholic Bishop:

"On February 19, 2012 Bishop Oscar Rojas Quinto and three of his clergy will be received as priests into the Anglican Church of Peru, along with their congregations from Huancayo in the mountains of central Peru.

These former Roman Catholics have been in conversation and prayer for over a year following the request of Bishop Oscar to be received as Anglicans and become part of the Anglican Diocese of Peru. "

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