Deputy Doug Engelbrecht Is Lying to The CORE and St. Peter, Freedom about Ski's "Leave of Absence," and Lying to the COP about Ski's "Suspension."

One more DP will get away with lying,
because WELS is infallible.

There is only one congregation involved - St. Peter, Freedom - whose retired pastor is Ron Ash, chairman of the secretive Church and Change cult in WELS.

The failed evening service for St. Peter is The CORE, a ruse for the rubes who think Ski's little sandbox was a mission to downtown Appleton. The model is the multi-campus Emergent Church, which anyone can google if he has trouble sleeping at night.

Engelbrecht has told upper management that Ski is suspended, for cause, but that was not announced on WELS.net. SP Mark Schroeder could not wait to report Rydecki's suspension for teaching (gasp) justification by faith - in harmony with the Scriptures and the Book of Concord.

He escaped St. Peter, Freedom, after a few months.
If no one talks about anything, nothing is resolved.
That is the WELSian way.

By the way, in WELS, suspension means gone from the official ministerium of the sect. Some clergy repair furnaces or sell frozen food for several years, but they do not have a call or their jobs waiting for them.

But in contrast, St. Peter in Freedom and The CORE are both being told that Ski is enjoying a "leave of absence" and will return shortly. In a little while you will see me again. Ski is coming back at the end of the summer, Engelbrecht assures them. Is Ski being paid for doing nothing? you ask. We all know the answer to that - "Why should anything change now?"

If anyone speaks of the moral turpitude of Engelbrecht, the Eighth Commandment is invoked. When Fox Valley Pastor Joel Lillo wrote to me, he was quick to invoke the Eighth, which is the only Commandment inscribed on the WELSian tablets. And they honor it in the breech, as the saying goes. One would have to look far and wide for a nastier, more dishonest bunch of drunken, adulterous clergy.

Supposedly the COP will meet about this weighty matter, just as they have been discussing Mark Jeske as he climbed the corporate ladder to become their paymasters. "Be nice, Mark and Avoid. Please fund us when you dump Lutheran from Thrivent."

Do not be quick to dismiss this news, Ichabod readers, for SP Schroeder has already threatened Engelbrecht with this story emerging on this blog. I found that fact amusing, since Schroeder never reads Ichabod. Apparently he knows how one blog post can shrivel the latest brag of Church and Change.

To use my labor to keep a DP in line - that is a wonder. Schroeder's gambit reminds me of the anonymous people on Ecclesia Augustana, who write constantly and verbosely against the young scholars publishing on Ecclesia Augustana.

Lying is not exactly a scandal among the DPs of WELS. They live on lies. Buchholz pretended to be against Gunn and Rick Johnson while he was building up support for them.

Below - nothing is for sale this week? And where is Ski?



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Fox Valley Pastor Joel Lillo has left a new comment on your post "Deputy Doug Engelbrecht Is Lying to The CORE and S...":

Greg,

Are you saying that I am drunk and adulterous? Just looking for a clarification on that.

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GJ - I am saying Sig Becker was shocked at how drunken and adulterous the WELS clergy were. A businessman who travels all over the US said the WELS clergy were the worst he had ever seen - crude, drunken, lecherous, etc.