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| Many have attended the organ concerts arranged by friends of St. John Lutheran Church in Milwaukee |
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| The building is magnificent. Musicians love the pipe organ. |
Constitution, St. John Lutheran Church, Milwaukee
The Antinomians do not need the Law, because they are a law unto themselves.
The syphilitic sex cult leader, Bishop Martin Stephan, brought his group over from Europe, infused with the convenient dogma of Easter absolution. They were the only true church in Germany, they imagined, and did not allow anyone in their group to think otherwise.
Walther took over the dictatorship after his organized mob threatened Stephan's life, robbed him of a fortune (gold, books, land), and forced him at gunpoint across the river to Illinois.
The Loehe group created the Missouri Synod and asked the Perryville cult to join them. That probably saved the LCMS from becoming another version of Mormonism, but gratitude was never a virtue for Walther. He enjoyed the benefits of the Loehe association while denouncing his fellow Pietist.
A pastor's family (LCMS) told this story. When the pastor was dying in the hospital, the elders piously informed the man's wife that she could stay in the parsonage the rest of the month if he died. Doubtless their meeting began and ended with prayer, confirming their conviction that they were most glorious manifestation of the Gospel since the Apostolic Age, perhaps a tad better.
Nevertheless, congregations are legal entities that must obey the law. The divine call is a legal contract, issued and signed by parish leaders.
Walther's heirs do not think they need to follow the law. WELS has a long history of nastiness, so they consider this sort of affair normal, Scriptural, yea even Confessional. (Walther used "yea even" often in his writing, so I feel compelled to copy him.)
WELS leaders forced J. P. Koehler, the president of the Sausage Factory, out of his job and home. His opponent, August Pieper, was a firebrand for UOJ.
August served St. Marcus in Milwaukee--the cathedral church of Mark and Avoid Jeske, who likes to remind his associates that he is a Pieper.
The Protes'tant split in WELS came from the Wisconsin leaders forcing out the congregations that dared to disagree with the thin-skinned leaders. Imagine this - no surprise to anyone with WELS experience. The sect had a meeting where the Protes'tants were kicked out, one by one, and allowed to say nothing.
DP Patterson used the same method in getting rid of Joe and Lisa Krohn. "Y'all can listen to us rant at you, but you cannot say a word."
Deputy Doug and Tim Glende did the same with Rick Techlin, but what did they do with Ski?
Silence.
WELS borrowed its Antinomian leadership principles from Stephan and Walther. Everything they do is right in their own eyes.
Step by step, the abusive sects are bringing themselves down.
St. John Lutheran Church became HerChurch in one giant leap for manned kine.
That can be reversed if people are strong and persistent.
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| WELS has a homosexual network? Ask about the mattress room at Mequon, where two students were caught in the act, but ordained anyway. |
