Introducing the Larry Olson Meme:Telling the Truth about WELS

Lawrence Otto Olson wears doctoral stripes even though he only has a DMin,
which is not a doctoral degree.
The Church Growth leaders in WELS have DMin degrees and call themselves doctor:
Dr. Paul Kelm, Dr. Richard Krause, Dr. Steve Witte, Dr. John Parlow!

solafide (http://solafide.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Time for a Few Laughs":

Since it seems that my post over on the fake blog won't get approved, I'll post it here. Here is the original blog post:

http://ichabodthegloryisdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/05/slander-of-dr-gregory-l-jackson.html

In response to Anonymous May 17, 2012 1:36 PM:

MLC does indeed plan what events are streamed around Greg Jackson's blog. Homecoming and Winter Carnival talent shows are not streamed specifically because of Party in the MLC (which was a class video for Homecoming). They do not want something they have little control over (what people actually do live on stage) being streamed, especially since people do watch these things. They absolutely do not want another repeat of Party in the MLC [GJ - still posted] - in fact, they now prohibit class and dorm videos from being posted online if they are to be used in the competitions, and they have to be approved by VP for Student Life Jeff Schone.

They do have the capability to stream from the auditorium. They have streamed copyrighted plays to parents who could not make it in the past. They even thought about streaming their Koine "worship" concert, but that was shot down as well, since they didn't want people to see it, as it displaced the normal evening chapel time.

In response to Anonymous May 25, 2012 7:45 AM:

Perhaps you should refer to Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation. In that case, the court found in favor of the defendant (the accused copyright violator) that fair use rules do apply for photos posted on the internet, especially if credit for the original photo is given (even a link back to the original site is enough).

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Febreze has left a new comment on your post "Time for a Few Laughs":

My comment wasn't posted either. It was in response to the guy who claimed I was lying about MLC planning to not air things out of fear.

I explained the story. I overheard, after chapel, a student suggesting to the two pastors in charge of the chapel (it was Boeder [sp] for sure and the other one I don't remember too well, probably Schone) to get a contemporary worship service together. They said that it was a great idea, although they had to not stream it because "Jackson" will put it all over his blog. My thoughts are that if CoWo is soooo great then why is their any need to be afraid of airing it? Isn't Jackson a loony anyway? If he is truly "mental" then just write him off and not give so much of a wink at what's on the blog, just continue on. That's my proof. Take my word for it or not. Before the counsel of God, I'm not lying.

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GJ - I was the bad guy when I posted a WELS layman's objections to the Party video. He was so disgusted that he could not watch the whole travesty. It took a few minutes for me to discover that the WELS video was copied almost frame-by-frame from a gay group's effort.

Martin Luther College should teach their students that posting on the Net is permanent.

The video team lied about not knowing it was a gay video. They defended themselves in print in the Wisconsin Lutheran College student paper. Pay attention to what one of them has posted at the link for the video on Facebook -

Troy Schreinerposted toBring back the MLC version of party in the USA!!!!!!

December 9, 2011

A request from one of the originators of the video, and from all the guys in the video...I don't know who the administrator of this group is, or who created it, but it's time to get rid of this group, especially since the video is still posted on it. The video was removed from YouTube for a reason...because we didn't want the video open to public viewing. It puts those of us in the video in a bad light, and we don't want it posted anywhere, anymore. So please, if you are the administrator, or know who the administrator is, please remove this page and the video from Facebook. Thank you!

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Introducing the Larry Olson Meme:Telling the Truth...":

So private viewing of a (W)ELS homoerotic video is OK?

Isn't that the same reason (W)ELS Communication Director Joel Hochmuth was arrested by the FBI for - downloading and distributing homoerotic pedophilia from home and (W)ELS Synod offices?

I knew (W)ELS called workers who were sharing the MLC homoerotic video to students in an attempt to show how fun MLC was in an effort to build interest in attending that school.

(W)ELS continues to have "Let the Children Come" drives. The most recent was at MLC. As they market the next money maker.
http://www.mlc-wels.edu/mission-advancement/projects/let-the-children-come
In light of the Gay Culture at MLC (an MLC students description posted on the internet) I couldn't think of a better reason to keep the children away.

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solafide (http://solafide.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Introducing the Larry Olson Meme:Telling the Truth...":

Brett, could you post a link to that description of gay culture at MLC?

It is disturbing to see that they still allow His Holiness, The Right Honourable Doctor Reverend Professor Lawrence Otto Olson to teach classes at MLC. Not only is his theology questionable, his teaching methods leave a lot to be desired. A teacher worth anything at all answers a question - Dr. Olson will not answer a question unless he is addressed as "Doctor."

Dude - What We Really Need in WELS is The Message

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Message_(Bible)

The Lord's Prayer:
   Our Father in heaven, 
   Reveal who you are. 
   Set the world right; 
   Do what's best— as above, so below. 
   Keep us alive with three square meals. 
   Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. 
   Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. 
   You're in charge! 
   You can do anything you want! 
   You're ablaze in beauty! 
      Yes. Yes. Yes.


Psalm 23:
^1-3 God, my shepherd! I don't need a thing. 
   You have bedded me down in lush meadows, 
      you find me quiet pools to drink from. 
   True to your word, 
      you let me catch my breath 
      and send me in the right direction. 

 ⁴ Even when the way goes through 
      Death Valley, 
   I'm not afraid 
      when you walk at my side. 
   Your trusty shepherd's crook 
      makes me feel secure. 

 ⁵ You serve me a six-course dinner 
      right in front of my enemies. 
   You revive my drooping head; 
      my cup brims with blessing. 

 ⁶ Your beauty and love chase after me 
      every day of my life. 
   I'm back home in the house of God 
      for the rest of my life.


1 Timothy 2:8ff

^8-10Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray—not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.

 ^11-15I don't let women take over and tell the men what to do. They should study to be quiet and obedient along with everyone else. Adam was made first, then Eve; woman was deceived first—our pioneer in sin!—with Adam right on her heels. On the other hand, her childbearing brought about salvation, reversing Eve. But this salvation only comes to those who continue in faith, love, and holiness, gathering it all into maturity. You can depend on this.

Richard Dawkins the arch-atheist backs Michael Gove's free Bible plan | Science | The Observer.Atheist Likes the KJV. Lutherans Do Not

Atheist Dawkins

Richard Dawkins the arch-atheist backs Michael Gove's free Bible plan | Science | The Observer:


It sounds like one of the most unlikely alliances of recent years. Richard Dawkins, arch-atheist and scourge of the praying classes, has announced support for education secretary Michael Gove's plan to send free King James Bibles to every state school.

The proposal aims to help pupils learn about the Bible's impact "on our history, language, literature and democracy" and will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the authorised version's publication, Gove said earlier this year. Church leaders have approved, but the plan has fallen foul of most non-believers. An online Guardian poll showed an 82% opposition, while the National Secular Society said the £375,000 proposal wasted money and favoured Christianity in multi-faith state schools. Nevertheless, several rich Tory party donors agreed to back the plan and the first Bibles were sent out last week, to the derision of secularists – with the exception of their most prominent and pugnacious recruit: Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and critic of all things clerical.

As Dawkins reveals in today's Observer, support for the Bible plan is justified on the grounds of literary merit and he lists a range of biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise. These include "salt of the Earth", "through a glass darkly", and "no peace for the wicked". Dawkins states: "A native speaker of English who has not read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian."

Rapprochement would seem to be in the air – until Dawkins's thesis is studied more closely. While Gove believes the Bible is a guide to morality, Dawkins is sure it is not. "I have heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that without the Bible as a moral compass people would show no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself," he says.

In fact, its pages are riddled with the advocacy of murder, slavery and theft. Hence his support for Gove's plan: opening the Bible is the surest way to put young minds off its contents. From this perspective, the Dawkins-Gove alliance looks dead before it started.


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Deliberate, Radical Change - Read "The Frog in the Kettle" by WELS/LCMS Favorite Barna

The theme of Barna's book is that
introducing gradual change will work over time,
just like slowly boiling a frog in a kettle -
except frogs are smarter than Lutherans - they jump out early.

One WELS member wrote to me:
The current news is that the NIV84 fair use might allow them to use it longer. We'll see. Maybe they're just telling people that, so they come to the conventions and say "Oh my, we can't use it! We thought we could, but we can't. We have to approve the NIV2011 NOW!"

You can buy Barna's The Frog in the Kettle for as little as one penny. Long ago I ran into a WELS member whose pastor gave it to him to read.

George Barna has been a must-read author for WELS and Missouri for decades.

I have often mentioned Process or Diaprax, as researched by ChurchMouse, Rogue Lutheran, California, and others.

The Frog in the Kettle is a children's version of the same, but how well it has worked! Long ago, John Lawrenz gave a "sermon" on how everything had to change. Mark Jeske gave lecture on everything changing and how the church had to change with it.

That is true of business - Sam Walton used the same words for Walmart, but he was able to build an organization rather than destroy it. The church is not a business. Those in love with business should go out and try their hand at it, to see if they know as much as they imagine.

ELCA is a good example of Diaprax working. They began with faking total participation, even though they mocked people behind their backs. One pastor, before the merger, brushed aside all objections, saying loudly in the bus to the Toronto meeting, "Maybe so, but I believe in THE PROCESS." As long as people are swindled into believing the process will only do good stuff, they go along with each step.

Missouri and WELS did not "study" Church Growth until it was firmly established in their synods. WELS handed the "study" over to David Valleskey, who adored everything from Fuller, and studied there with his buddy F. Bivens. Like Waldo Werning, both have bragged about being there and have also denied it.

I left Paul McCain's office at the Purple Palace while Kent Hunter (DMin, Fuller) was walking in, to advise all the LCMS District Popes. Oh, how they must have grinned as he pedaled his snake oil.

The McCain-Barry surrender to Church Growth was immediate and total, so no one should be shocked at the inroads today. McCain complained about CG in Missouri before his two years in the parish were up. However, he has dedicated his modest skills to eliminating justification by faith.

For perspective - all the parts of ELCA were once far more Lutheran than Missouri and WELS are today. But this apostasy is not on the agenda in Missouri and WELS.

I still have the booklet that the ELS published, attacking the Missouri Synod by name for tolerating false doctrine. The booklet was signed by the ELS leaders, even though they were in fellowship with Missouri. Now the ELS  endorses Church Growth, Emergent Church, and the NNIV (by only quietly dissing it).

Here is the booklet - A Letter to the Pastors and Professors of the Missouri Synod. The date is 1939. The signers are C. Anderson, chairman.
N. A. Madson, Secretary.
H. M. Tjernagel.
S. C. Ylvisaker.
They addressed doctrinal indifference regarding Missouri working with the old ALC.

"The NNIV is not a Bible to be read lightly. It should be thrown, hard against the wall." Apologies to Dorothy Parker.

Not long ago, any man could go to seminary and pay very little for tuition, because his church body felt it was important to support tuition when they asked men to stay in school four extra years. A gradual increase in tuition has turned seminary students into walking, talking debt carriers. But the new debt load is not on anyone's agenda.

Not long ago, church executives made modest salaries, and there were precious few of them. Now the top two CPH men make a total of $500,000 in salaries and benefits.

Not long ago, the WELS synod president worked out of his own congregation. Naumann began the process of living and working like an executive. Mischke had an office at NPH, and his wife Gladys was his sexretary. Now SP Schroeder owns two office buildings and claims not to know that his Director of Communications was committing multiple felonies in The Love Shack.

This is "mission money" in ELCA: The district collects all the money and keeps half of it for salaries. They send it to headquarters, and those people keep the rest for salaries. Precious little goes to anything worthwhile. World Hunger money goes to support lobbyists in DC and all the state capitals, to promote the ELCA-Thrivent agenda of homosexual ordination and abortion on demand. But they put starving African children on the World Hunger envelopes and posters. They never put a fat lobbyists hoisting a cocktail at yet another party with the politicians.

The first DC lobbyist for the LCA got paid a princely salary for having an affair with his assistant (a woman in this case). The LCA fired both of them and reported the news. WELS today would promote both to better positions and attack anyone who dared leak the facts.

Mission money is the same in WELS, Missouri, and the ELS. Most of it goes to princely salaries and benefits. They consider Thrivent money their own to blow on pet projects with ELCA (while denying it). World missions means sending synodical favorites around the world for free. It is a scam, folks, but nobody objected while it was building up, or the few that did were given the Left Foot of Fellowship. Shunning works, especially when everyone shuns the non-shunners.

The Communists had the Iron Curtain, but the SynConference has the Ice Curtain. Anyone with a brain cell working or a practical knowledge of the Bible is moved beyond the Ice Curtain, doomed to think on his own and enjoy freedom of worship without Holy Mother Synod on his back 24/7.

People fear the Ice Curtain so much that they often surrender in advance, out of fear, just as Iraqis surrendered to press helicopters in Gulf War I.

Not long ago, it was national news that the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, produced by the Commies at the National Council of Churches, deleted the Virgin Birth prophecy of Isaiah 7:11. That was changed back (Diaprax), but the process to move away from the KJV had just begun. Now the LCMS endorses and sells the ESV, a Calvinist revision of the RSV.

The KJV and its many modern revisions are not even on the agenda for Lutherans. Not long ago, the main translator of the KJV, William Tyndale, studied under Luther and Melanchthon so he would do a better job with his English Bible.

Not long ago, people died for the faith. Now they assassinate their friends in order to support the Fuller/ELCA agenda.