I am guessing that St. Peter and The CORE will get a lot more money, because that has been the pattern under the leadership of SP Mark Schroeder.
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Take the WELS DUI Test.
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When a pastor drives his car into a utility pole under the influence of alcohol.
A. He is sent as a missionary to Russia.
B. He is enrolled in detox.
C. He is removed from the ministry.
D. He is forced to take antabuse and use a lock-out system on his car.
When a District President is arrested for a DUI.
A. He is given a call to a new district, where nobody knows the truth.
B. He is enrolled in detox.
C. He is removed from the ministry.
D. He is forced to take antabuse and use a lock-out system on his car.
When a seminary professor is arrested for DUI, crossing the center line.
A. The evidence is removed and the charges dropped, thanks to a pricey lawyer.
B. He is enrolled in detox.
C. He is removed from the ministry.
D. He is forced to take antabuse and use a lock-out system on his car.
When a pastor is known for drinking on the job and "working" at bars.
A. He is given his own building with a grant from WELS, enormous subsidies, and special speaking engagements.
B. He is enrolled in detox.
C. He is removed from the ministry.
D. He is forced to take antabuse and use a lock-out system on his car.
When a pastor is found guilty of teaching justification by faith.
A. He is kicked out, accused of false teaching, and his church mortgage is foreclosed.
B. He is encouraged to discuss his exegetical findings in his district.
C. He is asked to translate orthodox Lutherans materials relevant to the issue.
D. He starts speaking to various synod entities so they become Lutheran again.
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GJ - The answer is A for each question.
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Journal Sentinel Story - Drunken ELCA Bishop Hits Mother of Three, Runs.
Follow Up Stories in Next Post
Lutheran bishop suspected of killing runner in Sun Prairie while drunk
Bruce Burnside oversees 145 ELCA congregations in Wisconsin
Bruce H. Burnside
Maureen F. Mengelt
The bishop who leads 145 Lutheran congregations in south-central Wisconsin remained Monday in Dane County Jail on allegations that he drove drunk and killed a 52-year-old Sun Prairie mother of three who was on a training run.
The Rev. Bruce H. Burnside, 59, of Madison was arrested Sunday on allegations of hitting Maureen F. Mengelt at the northbound exit ramp of Highway 151 at Windsor St. in Sun Prairie. Mengelt was taken by ambulance to St. Mary's Hospital in Sun Prairie, where she died from her injuries, police said.
Kevin Mengelt said Monday that his wife, an avid runner, was preparing for the Syttende Mai 20-mile race in May in Stoughton, which she had run more than 20 times. The couple have three children: Megan, Andrew and Allyson.
She was a former City of Madison police officer and teacher who became a full-time mother after the birth of the couple's daughter almost 20 years ago.
"She said her career could wait un til the kids were out of the house," he said, adding that she was planning on working or volunteering at the day care of an athletic club where she previously worked.
"She said she wanted to hold babies," he said. "She loved to hold babies."
Officers arrested Burnside on suspicion of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, Sun Prairie police said. He remained in jail Monday on suspicion of two charges: hit-and-run causing death and homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle. No bail was set and Burnside did not appear before a judge Monday. He could be in court as early as Tuesday.
Burnside serves as bishop of the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin, part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. As bishop, Burnside is the pastoral and administrative leader of the South-Central Synod, which includes the Madison area.
The Rev. Blake Rohrer, assistant to the bishop, said Monday that synod staff and the executive committee are handling day-to-day ministry and functions.
"We're holding the family of the woman who was killed in our prayers and we are really asking that God would be with them and provide them comfort in their grief and all those who have been impacted," Rohrer said.
Burnside is well-known in Lutheran and interfaith circles as a social-justice advocate, and he has headed the national ELCA's committee on Middle East issues.
His arrest drew an outpouring of prayers for both the victim and the accused.
"It's sad all the way around," Bishop Jeffrey Barrow of the ELCA's Greater Milwaukee Synod said Monday.
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Police: Lutheran bishop was intoxicated behind the wheel when he hit, killed woman
For years, Maureen Mengelt ran the same five-mile route near her home in Sun Prairie, a course that helped her prepare for the annual Syttende Mai 20-miler next month in Stoughton, her favorite race.
On Sunday afternoon, Mengelt, who turned 52 last week, was training alone on that route when police say she was struck and killed by a a local Lutheran bishop who allegedly was intoxicated on his way to a church ceremony.
"We've run that route probably thousands of times — it was one of her favorites," said Mengelt's husband, Kevin.
He was being comforted Monday by dozens of friends and family members, including members of the Madison Police Department. Maureen Mengelt was an officer on the force in the late 1980s, before deciding police work was not her calling, friends said.
Most recently, she devoted her time to raising the couple's three children — one at UW-Madison, two school-aged — and working part time as a driver for Gallant Knight Limousine, a job that spoke to her love of people.
Mengelt was running Sunday on a blacktop path that runs parallel to Windsor Street in Sun Prairie. She was at the point where the path crosses the bottom of the northbound off-ramp of Highway 151 when she was struck.
Police arrested the Rev. Bruce Burnside, 59, the bishop for the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He was in sheriff's custody Monday, tentatively charged with homicide by intoxicated driving and hit-and-run causing death, said Sun Prairie Lt. Brian Teasdale.
After allegedly hitting Mengelt, Burnside drove to a nearby Kelley's Market convenience store, where police first had contact with him in his vehicle, said Teasdale, who declined further comment due to the ongoing investigation.
Police did not release Burnside's blood-alcohol level, and no criminal complaint was filed Monday.
At the time of the crash, Burnside was heading to Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Sun Prairie, where he was scheduled to preside over a 3 p.m. ceremony in which a theologically trained lay person was to become a ministry associate. Police said they responded to the crash at 2:48 p.m.
Kathy Kienitz, a friend of the Mengelt family and a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church, said she was struggling with a multitude of feelings Monday, from grief over her friend's death to anger over what appears to be an alcohol-related death.
"She was such a lovely woman, and this is the bishop of our church," Kienitz said. "It's really raw for people."
Jean Papalia, a retired Madison police officer, described Mengelt as vibrant and caring.
"She always had time to meet you for coffee and talk — she was the Coffee Queen," Papalia said.
As bishop, Burnside is based in Madison and oversees 145 congregations in 13 south-central counties. He was elected to the post in 2007. Prior to that, he served 14 years as pastor of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Monona.
Over the years, Burnside had been well regarded as a religious leader who addressed public issues in a measured way, from calling for a "season of civility" after labor protests at the state Capitol to, most recently, advocating for measures to address gun violence. He had traveled more than a dozen times to Israel and Palestine, in part to reassure Palestinian Lutherans they were not forgotten.
Just over a week ago, he returned from India, where he led a contingent of Madison youth on a trip to a Lutheran synod there.
In November of 2011, he lost his wife, Cynthia, to an aggressive cancer that had been diagnosed only months earlier.
On Monday, the synod instructed pastors not to discuss Burnside's tenure with reporters.
"We want to focus our primary concern on the family and friends of the woman who was killed," said the Rev. Blake Rohrer, Burnside's assistant. "His synod work and leadership is not an area of concern in this particular matter." [GJ translation - He drunkenly hit a woman, killing her, and tried to escape - while doing official business? We have enough liability without someone talking about his tippling.]
Rohrer said synod staff and members of the synod's executive committee would manage daily tasks, at least in the short term.
"We gathered this morning and prayed for the family and friends of the deceased," Rohrer said. "We are asking others to do the same."
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Another Reason Why Alcoholic Ministers Need More Than Looking the Other Way.
Drunk ELCA Bishop Kills Jogger
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| ELCA Bishop Bruce Burnside, drunken hit-skip killer. His victim's bio should bring tears to the eyes of anyone. |
bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "From the Folks at The CORE - Who Gave You the Man ...":
ELCA Bishop of South-Central Wisconsin, Burnside, is drunk at 2:48 PM in the afternoon, and is on his way to a church meeting. He kills a jogger and then tries to flee the scene but then stops a ways away. The cops haven't said whether he stopped because he had second thoughts, or his car stopped working due to the accident. He likely went to the office and meetings drunk many times and never got called on it, since drunk drivers usually only get in accidents on their 100th or 500th episode of drunk driving, so the ELCA is likely partly responsible for this unnecessary death. The jogger was a mother of three, and was a former police detective and teacher:
Bishop Burnside was big into social justice, and in charge of the ELCA's Middle East policy, and recently led a 16-day trip to investigate the "occupation and oppression" in the West Bank, aka Palestine:
http://www.elca.org/Our-Faith-In-Action/Justice/Peace-Not-Walls/Travel/Trip-Reports-and-Advice/Synod-Trip.aspx
Map of ELCA South-Central Synod of WI:
http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Synodical-Relations/Regions/Region-5.aspx
Burnside at Yad Vashem, Israel:
http://photos.elca.org/ELCA-News-Service-1/2009-Conference-of-Bishops/7321845_YHf6R/2/471112053_LjFrX#!i=471112053&k=5S987Mb
Burnside was pastor once at Grace in Eau Claire, whose 70 ex-members are suing because the majority of the congregation decided to join the LCMC:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/12/grace-lutheran-sued-by-estranged.html
As of March 2013, Grace Lutheran has been ordered by a judge to terminate its fellowship with LCMC and be a sole member of the ELCA. Finally, those members who would like to associate with the LCMC will have only associate member status, exactly the reverse of the status quo since 2011. I don't know if associate members have voting rights. Ironically, the church is right across the street from the courthouse:
http://www.grace-church.org/
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/lutheran-bishop-accused-of-killing-pedestrian-in-sun-prairie-while-drunk-6t9fam1-201909101.html
http://www.thelutheran.org/blog/index.cfm?page_id=Breaking%20News&blog_id=1931
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/police-lutheran-bishop-was-intoxicated-behind-the-wheel-when-he/article_e949068a-a08f-11e2-baa0-0019bb2963f4.html
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/madison-man-arrested-after-woman-dies-in-car-crash/article_0fb85bfa-9ff9-11e2-a1cd-001a4bcf887a.html
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ELCA NEWS SERVICE
May 8, 2007
May 8, 2007
Bruce Burnside Elected Bishop of ELCA South-Central Wisconsin Synod
07-081-JB
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Bruce Burnside, St. Stephen Lutheran Church, Monona, Wis., was elected to a six-year term as bishop of the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) at the synod assembly in Madison, Wis. Burnside, 53, was elected May 5 on the fifth ballot for bishop, 253-159 over the Rev. Michael C. Rehak, assistant to the bishop, ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin.
Burnside will succeed the Rev. George G. Carlson, 65, who announced earlier he would not be available for re-election. Carlson was elected bishop of the synod in 2001.
Burnside led on the fourth ballot with 209 votes. Rehak had 117 votes, and the Rev. David J. Berggren, Our Savior Lutheran Church, Sun Prairie, Wis., received 75 votes. There were 31 names on the first or nominating ballot.
Burnside will assume his new role as synod bishop on July 1. He will be installed on Sept. 16 at a location to be announced.
Born in Ashland, Wis., Burnside earned a bachelor's degree in religious studies at Pacific
Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., in 1984. In 1988 he earned a master of divinity degree from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio. Pacific Lutheran is one of 28 ELCA colleges and universities; Trinity is one of eight ELCA seminaries.
Burnside served as pastor of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sharon, Wis., and St. John's Lutheran Church, Boscobel, Wis. He became senior pastor at St. Stephen Lutheran Church in 1993.
Burnside and his wife Cynthia are parents of an adult daughter. They reside in Madison.
The ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin has 110,668 baptized members in 150 congregations. The synod office is in Madison.
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Information about the ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin is at
http://www.scsw-ELCA.org/ on the Web.
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Rev. Sara Yotter,
Assistant to the Bishop
Click here to contact Rev. Yotter
Sara grew up in Appleton, WI. She received a BA in Religion and Biblical Languages from Luther College in Decorah, IA and her MDiv from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. She has been on the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin staff as an Assistant to the Bishop and Synod Stewardship Specialist since 2008.
Her personal mission statement is to love Jesus and to help others love Jesus. Her passion in ministry is that the Church may be real and relevant in the world today to connect all people to Jesus. A recent trip to Haiti, with ELCA World Hunger, has reignited her fire for ELCA work around the world.
Burnside will succeed the Rev. George G. Carlson, 65, who announced earlier he would not be available for re-election. Carlson was elected bishop of the synod in 2001.
Burnside led on the fourth ballot with 209 votes. Rehak had 117 votes, and the Rev. David J. Berggren, Our Savior Lutheran Church, Sun Prairie, Wis., received 75 votes. There were 31 names on the first or nominating ballot.
Burnside will assume his new role as synod bishop on July 1. He will be installed on Sept. 16 at a location to be announced.
Born in Ashland, Wis., Burnside earned a bachelor's degree in religious studies at Pacific
Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., in 1984. In 1988 he earned a master of divinity degree from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio. Pacific Lutheran is one of 28 ELCA colleges and universities; Trinity is one of eight ELCA seminaries.
Burnside served as pastor of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sharon, Wis., and St. John's Lutheran Church, Boscobel, Wis. He became senior pastor at St. Stephen Lutheran Church in 1993.
Burnside and his wife Cynthia are parents of an adult daughter. They reside in Madison.
The ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin has 110,668 baptized members in 150 congregations. The synod office is in Madison.
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Information about the ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin is at
http://www.scsw-ELCA.org/ on the Web.
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Rev. Sara Yotter,Assistant to the Bishop
Click here to contact Rev. Yotter
Sara grew up in Appleton, WI. She received a BA in Religion and Biblical Languages from Luther College in Decorah, IA and her MDiv from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. She has been on the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin staff as an Assistant to the Bishop and Synod Stewardship Specialist since 2008.
Her personal mission statement is to love Jesus and to help others love Jesus. Her passion in ministry is that the Church may be real and relevant in the world today to connect all people to Jesus. A recent trip to Haiti, with ELCA World Hunger, has reignited her fire for ELCA work around the world.
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As many of you know I was at the funeral this Monday of Cythia Burnside, wiife of bishop Bruce Burnside. I met Bruce at the ELCA church-wide assembly and had preached about that the following Sunday. I preached about how he and I had sat next to each other at a worship service where I discovered that his wife had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer a month before. During a particularly un-sing-able hymn that I was distracted by hating…I realized he was crying. So, throwing my snotty opinions about church music aside I just had to sing that terrible hymn twice as loud because my grieving brother in Christ couldn’t sing. After the liturgy ended, even though I was a new pastor he had just met and he was a bishop I asked him if he would like for me to pray for him and anoint him with oil and his eyes teared up and he said thank you yes. I committed to pray for him every day since and checked in occasionally via text message and email. At his wife’s funeral Monday I asked him “Who pastors Bishops?” He whispered “no one.” So, here’s the thing…I don’t really think I was the one who allowed Christ to be revealed in this encounter… it was Bruce. Because Bruce allowed himself to bear a need that someone else could, however imperfectly meet. And when the grief of our brother was cared about Jesus was cared about.
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ELCA Did Not Cover Up the Story But Reported It Through Its Normally Sluggish News Service
http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=5285
ELCA offers prayers for family, friends of pedestrian killed in Wisconsin
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are extending prayers for the family and friends of a pedestrian killed April 7 in Sun Prairie, Wis., and for the Rev. Bruce H. Burnside, bishop of the ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin. Reports indicate that Burnside’s vehicle hit the pedestrian. He was arrested and taken into custody.
“We offer our prayers for the woman who lost her life in this tragedy. Nothing can undo this terrible accident. Our hope is for God’s comfort for the survivors,” said the Rev. Jessica R. Crist, chair of the ELCA Conference of Bishops and bishop of the ELCA Montana Synod.
“At a time of such deep sorrow for the family and friends of the woman who died, for the members of the ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin, for Bishop Burnside and his family and for the wider community, we are held in the promise that nothing will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, and we are joined in our prayers for all who suffer,” said the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop.
In a statement from the ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin, leaders and members expressed their sorrow “and dismay in sympathy for the victim and for her family. We ask for prayers for the victim's family and for everyone affected by this situation.
“In this difficult time, when words are challenging to find, we trust in the presence of the Holy Spirit to be with us, and in God's abiding love to sustain us.”
Prayer resources are available on the synod’s website at http://www.scsw-ELCA.org.
The ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin comprises of 145 congregations in 13 counties in south-central Wisconsin.
“We offer our prayers for the woman who lost her life in this tragedy. Nothing can undo this terrible accident. Our hope is for God’s comfort for the survivors,” said the Rev. Jessica R. Crist, chair of the ELCA Conference of Bishops and bishop of the ELCA Montana Synod.
“At a time of such deep sorrow for the family and friends of the woman who died, for the members of the ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin, for Bishop Burnside and his family and for the wider community, we are held in the promise that nothing will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, and we are joined in our prayers for all who suffer,” said the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop.
In a statement from the ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin, leaders and members expressed their sorrow “and dismay in sympathy for the victim and for her family. We ask for prayers for the victim's family and for everyone affected by this situation.
“In this difficult time, when words are challenging to find, we trust in the presence of the Holy Spirit to be with us, and in God's abiding love to sustain us.”
Prayer resources are available on the synod’s website at http://www.scsw-ELCA.org.
The ELCA South-Central Synod of Wisconsin comprises of 145 congregations in 13 counties in south-central Wisconsin.
From the Folks at The CORE - Who Gave You the Man Who Oozes Jesus and..You Know the Rest
Where Is Ski?
Buy your chocolate bars!
Golf
Hands-on training! (I would avoid that.)
The Lighthouse - Buske worshiped and trained with 7 others, including Ski, at Andy Stanley's Babtist festival, called Drive.
Can't find "The Road," which may be undergoing repairs at the moment. If I want to know what they teach at St. Peter in Freedom or The CORE, I just go to the Groschel or Stanley websty. Or Driscoll. Or Leonard Sweet. Or Fuller.
Sidwell, an exclusive school in DC, where Obama's daughters attend, has a big scandal erupting. Normally I link news. Find this on your own if you wish, but you would rather not, I am sure.
How Dare Anyone Criticize WELS? - The Modus Operandi of an Abusive Cult
WELS has worked out its Rules of Engagement perfectly, as long as no one thinks on his own. Here the rules are, as simple to learn as the Buddhist's Four Noble Truths.
Rule Number One
No one outside of WELS is allowed to criticize WELS because no outsider is pure enough to discuss WELS.
Rule Number Two
No one within WELS is allowed to criticize WELS because the slightest hint of disapproval will mortally wound Holy Mother Synod, grounds for excommunication.
Exception for Rule Number One
Anyone from Church Growth/Emergent Church is free to lambast WELS for using creeds, hymns, sermons, the liturgy, the Confessions, and the Lutheran name.
Exception for Rule Number Two
Anyone within WELS may criticize the synod under the guidelines of the Rule Number One Exception.
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On the Ski Sermon - Preached at the Church of Carl Gausewitz Sr.
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Benjamin Wink has left a new comment on your post "Pastor Ski's Scrotum Sermon at Morrison Zion WELS ...":
I don't ask for much in sermons that I hear. I don't ask for humor. I don't ask for numerous anecdotes. I don't ask for powerpoints. I don't ask for projection screens. I don't ask for dazzling monologues or fantastic and elaborate sentence construction.
Here's what I do ask for: Law and Gospel. Seems like a simple request, right? I read and reread the above "sermon" and rather than explaining God's Law and Gospel, I just heard someone who enjoys listening to himself talk instead. If this rambling drivel is typical of a normal "sermon", I shudder. Everything appears to be based on personal feelings not the Word. You're spreading the Word just because it makes you feel good. So the focus is taken away from God and placed on you. Just like the focus of an 150th anniversary is taken away from the church in question and placed on your watered down "mission" bar/church.
Sad. Just sad. Oh and to appropriate and misquote from Planes Trains and Automobiles: "When you're telling a story, have a point. It makes it that much more interesting for the listener. Not everything is an anecdote, pick and choose."
After all that time spent in Lutheran day schools, high schools, colleges, and seminary plus being in a congregation and the simple concept of presenting Law and Gospel in a sermon is still lost? Sad, just plain sad. Can't mention God's Law but can mention scrotum several times. Fantastic. That's just great. Happy 150th Anniversary! I'm sure the church founders would have beamed with pride.
[GJ - Two comments were edited together, the Q source and the Benjaminite outline.]
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quercuscontramalum (http://quercuscontramalum.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Pastor Ski's Scrotum Sermon at Morrison Zion WELS ...":
I lost the link, but I just read on the internet that the Israeli Antiquities Authority recently announced a surprising upheaval of what was previously understood about worship life before the destruction of Jerusalem in 79 CE. [sic] Based on a meandering statement made by a sweaty drunk in faded jeans, the Israelis now believe there were actually no Jewish altars around Jerusalem from about 4 BCE to 35 CE.
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Does anyone remember WELS breaking with the LCMS due to Missouri turning liberal? WELS has regressed - far beyond liberal - into a state of crude blasphemy.
I was trying to imagine what the altar, pictured above, looked like from close up. I grew up in an area where church altars were plain wooden boxes. Therefore, I was always impressed with the classic WELS carved altars, often featuring Christ risen in victory. I cannot imagine sitting still during a sermon like the one piously reproduced and posted on the congregation's websty.
If you want to know the prime cause of such events, look to the synod president Mark Schroeder. Like the previous dolts who mismanaged the office, Schroeder has worked hard to convince people he is "conservative" or even "confessional" while doing just the opposite.
Complaints against Ski were registered before he was handed a sinecure and a pile of cash to waste in Appleton. As everyone knows, Jeske wanted him out of St. Marcus. Ski should visit Milwaukee and pick up that posted bond money he left at court. $3,000 bond? Hmm. What on earth was that for?
DP Jon Buchholz chuckled at the observations about Ski and Glende, which were being sent to me. "I know all that," he grinned. That reminded me of Paul Kuske saying the same thing decades before, about Columbus, where Glende got his training in Church Growth from LPR and Floyd Luther Stolzenburg.
"Lest the ministry be blamed" has taken a new turn. WELS translates this as "Let the ministry be blamed, just to show that we are more Evangelical than Jesus."
Ask pastors around WELS what good it does to discuss anything directly with the people involved. Matthew 18 is an accusation, not a method for getting anything resolved.
As one long-time loyalist says, the DPs are mean, petty, and vindictive, getting even with anyone who dares to cross them. If the pastor is protected by Church and Change, as Glende and Ski are, they can do anything and still be offered up as great examples of the WELS pastoral office.
Long ago, Pastor Mark Freier was known as "P-boy" for his habit of shocking congregations and ladies groups with discussions of his favorite body part. He disappeared from his Emergent Church, CrossRoads in South Lyons, Michigan, to surface much later as a highly-paid consultant at Parlow's pseudo-Lutheran operation (where else, but the Fox Valley WELS circuit).
The worst part of the Glende/Ski operation is not their loutish behavior, crude language, and work in bars (modeled after Craig Groeschel). Their doctrine denigrates the Means of Grace in favor of self-adulation. They are simply younger, cruder versions of their DP and their seminary professors at The Sausage Factory.
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