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| Tim Niedfeldt visited Pastor Paul Rydecki just before Tim's fatal accident. |
Tim Niedfeldt December 20, 2013 at 10:38 am #
It is in their own rules that Thrivent maintains sole responsibility for the final listing of an organization in their Choice program. Even though it was member initiated and Chapter approved, Thrivent has full power to approve or reject it. They chose not to as a matter of a biblical and moral lapse. I contend that they don’t actually worry about such things there. The failing here is the belief that Thrivent was concerned about being “faith based” anymore. If people knew the nature of Lutheran Brotherhood before it merged with AAL this would not be a surprise. LB took over and the AAL way of doing fraternal has disappeared. This is the fruits of that. Expect more of sketchy and outright immoral “choices” being offered as they expand to “Christians”
If Thrivent actually thought this was a breach of their core values…they could remove the entry in minutes by their own rules. The power of “Choice” they offer does not trump the Bible and murder. I think what it means is…they have jumped on the post-modern PC train and once they get rid of the protesters…they can expand their markets in peace with no more morality than the United Way.
Classic Ichabod - Thrivent was funding Planned Parenthood in 2009.
Classic Ichabod - Thrivent was funding Planned Parenthood in 2009.
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GJ - I ran into Tim's comment on this blog:
The post shows his insight on such matters. He and his wife worked for Northwestern Mutual Life previously, as I did long ago, but I did not think of the Lutheran Brotherhood part of the equation. LB was ELCA and AAL was more of a WELS/LCMS operation. The two fraternal insurance companies combined to form Thrivent, and Mark Jeske sits on the Thrivent board.
This post is one more reason why he will be missed by so many.
