Go Global - Steal Local. Leadership Conferences as Income for Has-beens

He needs notes for saying the same things, over and over?
WELS and Missouri eat this stuff up.

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These WELS Leadership Conferences are small potatoes. They need to go global like Bill Hybels has done:

http://www.willowcreek.com/events/leadership/

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GJ - Please assume that I always include the Little Sect on the Prairie and micro-mini sects in my jeremiads. They are simply so tiny and inconsequential that they do not merit a mention most of the time. They will be gone soon enough. WELS and Missouri will follow, but like large animal carcasses, they will take longer to rot away.

Note how many religious businesses feel the need to train people in "leadership." And the Shrinker Salesmen all go to each other's leadership conferences. They hire each other, too. And they sell each other's books. And audio tapes.

The denominational headquarters like to send their minions to these events, so a multitude of non-leaders parrot the same idiocies of non-leaders, which they have heard from professional leadership conference leaders.

Even if someone has a belt-size bigger than his IQ, he can say, "I can do this." So he offers his plagiarized nonsense. He may even rent his brains as a coach, for a hefty monthly fee. See Team Patterson for your costs.

Readers need to do their own research. They should attend the Lutheran copy-cat conferences and report on them. The Changers are deathly afraid of the truth being found out. Google is the orthodox Lutheran's friend, the crypto-universalist's enemy.

Wisconsin Lutheran College: Paul Kelm Leads Another Shrinker Conference.No Names. Ichabod Effect

Paul Kelm is so famous for his heresies that he has
endured several minutes of unemployment in WELS.
They are so strict about doctrine in the Wisconsin Sect.
Kelm had two calls at once, so he could pick and choose.
He is the oldest college chaplain in North America.

Wisconsin Lutheran College:


2012 Leadership Conference Agenda

Friday, June 8 (morning)

Opening Worship
Plenary Session Presentations: "Leadership Roles and Relationships in the Church"
Pastoral Leadership, a biblical and practical overview
Lay Leadership, a biblical and practical overview
Issues of Tension and Opportunity, led by a panel of WELS leaders
Friday, June 8 (afternoon)

Seminar Sessions: "Leadership Skills for a 21st Century Church"
(choose three)
Defining Current Reality so that People Get It
Establishing a Vision for the Future, with Buy-In
Strategic Planning: Getting from Here to There
Recruiting and Mentoring Volunteers
Team Building
Dealing with Disagreement
Assessment and Accountability
Friday, June 8 (evening)

Networking fellowship, sharing common problems and successes, according to the size or situation of congregation
Saturday, June 9 (morning)

Yes, Paul. Reading Luther and Chemnitz
would just confuse the sheep.

Opening Worship
Plenary Session Presentation: "Jesus' Mission in my Situation," introducing the importance of implementing leadership principles in a congregation's specific ministry context
Workshop Sessions: "Processing Principles – How Leaders Address Areas of Ministry"
(choose two)
Community Outreach
Children's Ministry that Connects
Leading the Lutheran School through a Time of Change
Connecting Adults through Small Groups
Ministries of Compassion for Hurting People
A Fresh Look at Financial Support
Leading Worship for the People You Want to Serve
Wrap-Up Open Forum (Quo Vadis) and Closing Devotion

'via Blog this'

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GJ - Someone told me Paul Kelm and Al Sorum were running a conference. Thanks to a doctor of divinity, I found the link and confirmed the conference led by Kelm in the WLC magazine.

Kelm is famous for hosting the Leonard Sweet conference, in spite of objections from his fellow pastors. Remember that Matthew 18 claim about going to someone and telling him his fault? - which does not apply to false teachers. Kelm would not even answer anyone who objected.

I find this announcement  strangely devoid of names. Normally the celebrity speaders are named on the agenda to attract more people. The silence may be Ichabod-effect, "the hiding and shredding of data to deny content to everyone's favorite blog." That is why I copy all the wording or create PNG images when necessary.

The magazine did not mention Sorum, but one source said he was named in Fickle. If anyone wants to add information, feel free to comment.

Leonard Sweet is not even a nominal Christian.
He is a space cadet for the New Age Movement.

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And of course the all important bullet point "Dealing with Disagreement". What's wrong with this picture?

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GJ - Opponents of Church and Change are wolves, according to the lupine Church and Changers.

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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Wisconsin Lutheran College: Paul Kelm Leads Anothe...":

The latest FICL lists the conference on pages 20-21. There are no speakers listed. It is held at the WLC "Center for Christian Leadership". The listing of conferences and workshop in FICL is enough to produce cognitive dissonance. This leadership mantra is repeated ad nauseum.

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GJ - Mercury, like false doctrine, is toxic. Hit a blog with a hammer and it will scatter into a bunch of little shiny blogs. Mercury quickly attaches itself to silver and gold, just as false doctrine puts a sheen on sound doctrine. False teachers say, "Look at us, because we can get between you and those old legalists of the past, to open things up for everyone. It's all for Jesus. We are passionate about sharing Jesus."

Kelm's cell groups were supposed to cause explosive growth in Milwaukee, according to his advocates at WLC, one of many schools owned and operated by Church and Change. Milwaukee residents have heard no explosions, on decrepitation.

Your Liturgical Calendar Comes from the Church of Rome, O Naive Lutherans

"Wake up, Holy Father Antichrist!"

Some people began mentioning Transfiguration Sunday rather late. Then I remembered. Rome got rid of the gesima Sundays, which always preceded Ash Wednesday. Yes, I know, they made up Ash Wednesday, too.

Rome lengthened the Epiphany season, ending it with Transfiguration, just before Ash Wednesday.

Also, Latin names are dropped.

So what did those brave "confessional" Lutherans do? They adopted the three-year Vatican readings cycle, Rome's gay-friendly liturgical colors, then eliminated the gesima Sundays and Latin names.

When I included my annual typo, Invocabit for Invocavit, I realized why the Latin-ignorant wanted to rid rid of those odious names. Imagine trying to explain a Latin name without knowing the language.

But the adiaphora article in the Formula of Concord says we should make a point of NOT agreeing with false teachers on "matters of indifference." The very fact of flexibility in all these matters means that Lutherans should NOT use the three-year cycle, should NOT drop the Latin names, should NOT extend the Epiphany season to make the Antichrist happy.

And yet, like the feminist ecumenical Creeds, the pretense is made that "we have to do that."