The Holy Spirit Enrages SynCon Pastors

Holy Mother Synod teaches the pups
to howl with rage against the Gospel.

One of my Facebook friends announced the re-election of Matt Harrison as LCMS president. Some started to hail this as a great victory.

I pointed out that Missouri and Team Harrison have been working with ELCA for decades.

Gregory L. Jackson Let the full fellowship with ELCA continue, making it so easy to play holier than thou.



That lit up the comments. The LCMS pastors bemoaning the Supreme Court decisions were on my case right away. 

Their continued work with ELCA means they support women's ordination, gay marriage and ordination. The  Supreme Court justices simply followed the policies already established by the mainline church bodies. WELS, Missouri, and the Little Sect on the Prairie are mainline because they are happy to work with ELCA on ELCA's terms, as long as they get to eat the crumbs that fall from the table. ELCA gets the most Thrivent money. Missouri gets $50 to $60 million per year. WELS and the ELS get far less.

The joint projects are no longer hailed as they once were, since bozos and rubes like you and me objected to the "conservative" sects looking down their noses at ELCA while working on religious projects with them.

One LCMS pastor called me a hater and a liar, so I asked why. He told his fellow rock-throwers, "Let me handle him." He went silent but unfriended me on Facebook. Oh the pain.

Jack Kilcrease was commenting, but I have him blocked, or he blocked me. Either way, I could not see his remarks or have fun with them.

Speaking of Jack, I got this email from his flack:

Greetings Gregory L. Jackson,

Wipf and Stock Publishers has recently released a book by Jack D. Kilcrease we thought may be of interest to you: The Self-Donation of God: A Contemporary Lutheran Approach to Christ and His Benefits. Jack believes you might be interested in his new publication and suggested we send you this one-time announcement for this book.

Attached you will find an excerpt for your immediate consideration.

Book Details:

Kilcrease, Jack D.

The Self-Donation of God: A Contemporary Lutheran Approach to Christ and His Benefits

Wipf and Stock

ISBN 13: 978-1-62032-605-3

Retail: $36

Pub. Date: 3/20/2013

If you are interested in a review copy of this new book feel free to direct those inquiries to James Stock, our Marketing Director, James@wipfandstock.com. Please indicate the journal you are associated with or if you would like to consider the text for textbook adoption.

Best wishes,

Michael Munk

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I responded:

"Hahahahahahaha."

I am not digressing in writing about Jack Kilcrease - he loves it. How else can he get 2,000 page views?

My point at the beginning is this - the Holy Spirit convicts people of their unbelief. All the "conservative" clergy will howl, "But we believe."

As Mary Thompson has pointed out in many communications, if they believed, they would not work with ELCA and Thrivent for the money. They would not depend on the government for tax revenue, bawling when it runs short. They would not be part of the United Nations' dubious money-raising schemes.

They cannot participate with homosexual and lesbian pastors and object to the Supreme Court mandating gay marriage, but they do. That requires a profound commitment to hypocrisy, which is the honor that vice pays to virtue. But, as Luther said, hypocrisy is still a sin.

My experience in the LCA conditioned me against adulterous pastors, not that I favored it before. I even knew of one LCA pastor who carried on his affair for decades with the knowledge and permission of his members, but he still did enormous damage to his family and congregation. In the Michigan Synod of the LCA, adulterous pastors could leave their wives for their parish girlfriends and stay in that congregation.

The Michigan District of WELS was no better, and the clergy were even more hopped up to protect their adulterous friends in the name of the Gospel. Many informants have told me how this is rampant in WELS and the ELS, with the same goody-two-shoes attitude I mentioned before.

False doctrine--the UOJ of ELCA, WELS, ELS, and LCMS--has found a home in the name of Luther, with alleged blessings from Jesus. Tell me again how Jesus has declared polytheists and atheists righteous and saved, without faith and even without the Word. That is the anonymous Christian blarney of Rahner and the Ultimate Concern of Tillich.

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Is Your "Conservative" Lutheran Sect an Abusive Cult?

They recognized women's ordination decades ago, working with ELCA.
Now they honor gay ordination and marriage, for the same reason.

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-us-supreme-court-simply-followed.html

Does this sound familiar to SynCon Lutherans? It should:

"The people of First Baptist Church were taught that if they didn’t see something, it didn’t happen. They were taught that unless an allegation could be confirmed by two or more people (Matthew 18) they were not to believe it."

"In general, the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) Church movement abhors scandal and they do everything they can to cover it up. More important than the sin or the victims is the church’s testimony. The church’s testimony must be protected at all costs, even if we ignore a pedophile in our midst."

".....backed into a corner without the option of covering it up or quietly making the “problem” go away. (calling in attorney David Gibbs to “manage” the crisis speaks volumes about depth of the scandal)"

"The bigger the church attendance the more authority you were granted and the more weight your words had."

win them
wet them
work them
waste them

"They know people are “attracted” (the attractional method) to the Church by the pastor, the programs, the building, etc"

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The first step in healing from an abusive cult is to leave it. Although they drive people away, they want those sheep silent and docile.

The LCMS, WELS, and ELS follow the same practices exposed in the Roman Catholic Church, where priests who are caught in the act are given a transfer to another location. The only effort that stopped this was SNAP, where the victims networked to warn others that a felon was moving to a new diocese. Many lawsuits proved that the Catholic Church had a policy of protecting sex offenders by moving them around.

Secrecy is a great tool in a cult. Everything is a secret in WELS-LCMS-ELS. Asking for information is a crime, and telling? - that is blasphemy that "hurts the face of the church."

Jack Preus referred once to the "WELS KGB." WELS manipulates people by keeping track of everything. They are ready to pounce and accuse whenever synodical secrets might be told. Of course, the facts do not matter. Anything that comes from "The WELS Grapvine" is considered Gospel Truth, so ministers fear the Grapevine - the whispers and the signs of being shunned.

The ELS is a pet project of WELS. No one pays much attention to WELS, so they like having a tiny sect they can bully. The ELS leaders are always WELS kiss-ups. And they all worship the money of Marvin Schwan and Thrivent.