On the Road Again with Ski and Glende - The CORE's Secretive Program

I knew I needed to keep my Ski graphics.

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What’s this “The Road” at gotocore.com all about at the end of these videos?

First, I had to register and be approved before I could access that part of the site.

Once I was approved, I was met with this welcome message:

“Welcome to The Road. Prepare to embark on your learning adventure. The end destination: You can become a formal member of The CORE. Grab your keys, unlock your car, hop in, and get on The Road.

After you fully explore each neighborhood you will have the opportunity to reminisce your adventure and answer a few questions for us. After you have answered the questions we will contact you to schedule a visit with Ski who will give you the key to enter the next neighborhood. This gives us the opportunity to get to know each traveler on The Road. Explore all four neighborhoods and visit Ski four times to complete the process.

We also invite and encourage you to make use of the travel log. This is a place for you to make note of your thoughts or questions about your trip on The Road. This is completely private unless you chose to give Ski permission to view your log.

If you have questions you want to ask Ski when you visit with him, make note of them here so you don't forget.”

I entered a video game map of four locations—Darboy, Kimberly, Greenville, and Appleton. First stop is Darboy. Clicking on Darboy puts me in a VW beetle that drives past the sites of Darboy—a house and the Silver Spur Saloon (proudly serving Pabst Blue Ribbon). The three lessons include a slideshow of biblical teachings and intermittent Groeschel-esque videos. After viewing the lessons, there is a multiple choice quiz to take. I left this one about objective justification blank (spelling is unaltered):

“8. Which of the following is the correct definition of objective justification?

A. When the Holy Spirit gives me faith to believe that Jesus died for my sins

B. God’s declaration that Jesus' death paid for the sins of all people

C. Jesus’ act of dyeing (sic) on the cross [GJ - fabric dye? But Tim. Studied. Greek.]

D. Jesus’ keeping the law perfectly in our place”

I must have done okay on the quiz, because I got the following email:

“I just received your Darboy Road results. Congratulations on beginning your journey!

The next step in the process is to meet with one of our pastors from our CORE/St. Peter campuses. At this meeting, you will be able to ask any questions you may have, and the pastors will also go over your test results with you. Finally, you will get the password for the Kimberly stop so that you can continue on the Road at your own pace.

Please let me know which campus you attend most regularly, and I will forward your results on to the appropriate pastor for your first meeting.

Blessings on your journey on The Road. I look forward to hearing from you.”

So I can’t continue on to the other locations on “The Road” until I meet with the pastors…or Ski…or something.

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GJ - I suspected they were pulling a bait and switch, because Doug Engelbrecht was telling Schroeder and the DPs that Ski would be suspended but not removed - and this would be secret.

The same formula was used by WELS with Floyd Luther Stolzenburg, who was completely disqualified for the pastoral office. VP Paul Kuske and DP Robert Mueller made up a bunch of new distinctions that allowed Floyd to play the part of a pastor until they could finagle him into a parish - and they did!

Tim Glende studied this Antinomianism under Stolzenburg hisself - at St. Paul German Village. And UOJ expert Jay Webber and CG expert Roger Kovaciny treated Floyd as a fellow pastor in their work with Thoughts of Marvin Schwan.

Fake Pastoral Program To Be Divisive at LCMS Convention

LCMS leaders encouraged a convicted, unrepentant sex offender
to enter the SMP program - and gave him a "passtoral" position.
He offended again - he is Missouri's Hochmuth.

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LCMS' July 2013 convention set to be stormy, since they have several resolutions that are deadset against other resolutions, such as one "for" the SMP program, and one "against":

http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=29399

Overture 5-29 [p. 227]
To Discontinue Specific Ministry Pastor Program

Overture 5-31 [p. 227]
To Commend and Enhance Specific Ministry Pastor Program

One Third of Mexicans Would Move to America If They Could

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20% of Mexicans say they want to enter and live in the US even if that meant living in the shadows:

http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/04/29/u-s-image-rebounds-in-mexico/

About six-in-ten Mexicans (61%) say they would not move to the U.S. even if they had the means and opportunity to do so. However, a sizable minority (35%) say they would move to the U.S. if they could, including 20% who say they would emigrate without authorization.

Ominous - No Views for The CORE's Video Announcements

10 views at midnight! It's gone viral!

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GJ - There is a lot of power in information and asking questions. Everyone should keep informed about the mysterious evening service that pretends to be a church, the man who pretends to be the pastor of a non-existent congregation, and the frauds behind these deceptions.

How many men are called "The Pastor of the 11 AM Service"? None.

But The CORE is simply the evening service of St. Peter, Freedom, Wisconsin. And yet, Ski was not listed on the staff roster at St. Peter even though he was in the WELS Yearbook.

My intuition is that Doug Engelbrecht is setting up a way for Ski to return as if he never resigned from the clergy roster. Just pretend some more. Adultery, divorce, alcoholism, and lying are so much easier with practice.

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Ichabod -

How do those poor souls at the CORE have time to work their daily employment, serve their families and read their Bibles with all the heavy loads of CORE activities?

Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org 

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GJ - According to the Church Growth forum I attended, a large congregation (St. Peter in Freedom) needs to create activities to keep the laity involved.

Inventing The CORE evening service and pretending it was another congregation gave the volunteers plenty to do - moving to three different locations, remodeling, and now fumigating an old, abandoned bar.

I had to buy communion wine at the Last Chance Liquor Store just down the road from our place. The dank, degraded aroma of the place made me sick to my stomach.

Imagine coming home from church, wearing your best lawn-mowing clothes, and smelling like that. Ugh.

The Gulf between Christ-Centered Means of Grace Worship and Entertainment Seeker Shows

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It's conversations such as this one on FB that only serve to point out the great divide in the WELS. There are those who obviously love this type of touchy/feely emotion-laced entertainment in lieu of confession and absolution in a liturgical worship service. Fine and dandy - have at it. For those of us who would have turned around and left immediately upon seeing this praise band set up in the front of your church, especially on Easter Sunday of all times, we know we are cut from a different cloth. We cannot sit there and stomach that. We cannot and should not be forced to accept it. We must not be complacent sitting in the pews. Each of us has a voice and now is the time to use it. We cannot all be WELS together. It is an either/or, apples/oranges situation. But we can NOT all be unequally yoked.

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Make sure everyone knows you
are passionate about sharing Jesus,
so they overlook your drinking habit.

GJ - The SynCons (WELS-LCMS-ELS) have deliberated polarized their own sects by making Gospel entertainment shows the gold standard of their dying denominations.They are consciously imitating the Pentecostal shows of 50 years ago--minus the beehive hairstyles--that made Lutherans ask, "What are we doing wrong?"

A Lutheran who returned from the Assemblies of God reported that the Pentecostals order obedience. They demand that "real Christians" attend all their services and educational programs - and pay up. Imagine this - "You must take this program. Leave your kids in the church basement to fend for themselves. Pay us $50 for that notebook we are giving you. We expect everyone to be there."

The same law motivation is at work in LCMS-WELS-ELS. "You don't like this? Then you do not love Jesus or your neighbor." And - "This is very important for the Savior's work, so we need money to pay  for it."

Of course there is gloating over those who do not get it. The scattered mega-churches that draw thousands are their model, but I heard a retired minister say he felt completely lost in the one he joined, so he stayed home.

Luther's point about pastors versus physicians argued that a town needed many more ministers than doctors. A doctor could take care of a large number of people at once, but a pastor spent more time with each person.

The wolf-preachers like the mega-style of walking out of their posh office and letting the thousands gasp at their jumbo-screen image in awe and wonder. They do not visit their members. They do not spend time in real evangelism. They covet and copy one another until I cannot tell them apart or offer any difference between them and the motivational gasbag named John Maxwell.

Their most repulsive trait, among many others, is boasting about all they doing to rescue the lost. They will get down in the mud for Jesus, but they will not write a Biblical sermon - since copying another motivational coaching session from the Net is so much easier.

They are not content to slaughter and scatter the flock. They must also silence anyone who questions their divine intent and passionate love for sharing Jesus.
And yet they

• Mangle the Means of Grace:
• Abandon the Scriptural liturgy and Confessions.
• Mock faithful hymns.
• Exchange the Gospel sermon for a Law rant.
• Remove the baptismal font to make room for the praise band.
• Drop the embarrassment of Holy Communion, but
• Make the coffee bar the ultimate requirement for their hideous covens.