Hilarious Reviews of the Andy Stanley Gay Activist Babtist Church - Where Ski, Glende, and Six Other WELS Ministers Were Trained

Research from a non-Lutheran visitor to the Stanley cult:

“The congregation of the Buckhead church, really knows how to party, every time we go on a retreat going to a bar is always on the itinerary” (Parker, 2013). [GJ - Doubtless this inspired the Glende/Ski bar ministry, which was supposedly aimed at coffee shops.]

“One thing that I find different about this huge church is that they do not have Sunday school” (Pearson, 2013) 

“The praise band is very loud and it’s more like a rock concert and the entire sermon seemed more like a very weak, self help seminar” (Brown, 2013). 

“I heard no theology or anything from the Bible until the last ten minutes of the three hour service, and  overall the sermon was boring and had no substance” (Baker, 2013).                                             
                                                
“Please don't go there expecting choir robes and a hymnal but more of a rock concert, and most disturbing to me was the fact that attendees’ never get to meet, greet or shake hands with the minister, all the services are pre-recorded on a huge screen” (Baker, 2013).  

“Besides the fact that the congregation is watching the minister on a screen, he also takes several breaks, at which time the rock ban entertains the audience, sort of like watching church on television.” (Baker, 2013). 

“This was the first church I have ever visited that had no alter (sic) call or communion on the first Sunday” (Lloyd, 2013). 

“Honestly I have visited this church on four different occasions and I will never go again because on my last visit I realized that it is nothing more than a cult” (Lloyd, 2013). 

Mark Schroeder and Keith Free had over $500,000 to give away to Ski and Glende to buy this bankrupt bar,
but they refused to help the congregation in Illinois that Glende destroyed with his bullying.
WELS will foreclose on the Savoy congregation soon,
which was "redeveloped" so Glende could make it his Church Growth sandbox.
But Glende evaporated before the new building was finished.

The Children Are Tucked into Bed Again - No More Crying from Their Nightmares. Intrepid Lutherans Moonwalk Away

Universal Objective Justification teaches against faith
and lives in fear.
Why trust God's Word when men have all the cash?

The self-named Intrepid Lutherans are tucked back into bed again. Mark Schroeder has rocked them back to sleep. They will not bother anyone again with their posts. They give every indication of closing down for good. Later, they will erase their files.

Protests in WELS have had a mild rather than a wild history. Issues in WELS (DP Free, Dave Peters) shrank in horror when pastors found out that SP Gurgle was actually attending a meeting. Most clergy were too scared to show up. Once DP Free was gone, so was IIW and its website.

Previous to IIW, the Orthodox Lutheran Forum (Steve Spencer) folded up when clergy got nasty over sensitive topics like doctrine and practice. The only acceptable theme in any WELS effort is "The Glory of WELS and the Sanctity of Its Leaders."

Several scandals should have been enough to send Mark Schroeder and Jon-Boy Buchholz packing. Instead, they have enjoyed a second chance as members of Team Jeske.

How many sects have had the FBI show up at headquarters to seize equipment and thumb-drives full of man-boy rape videos? Only WELS. And it was not some minor employee in the building but the head of public relations. After repenting several times while pleading non-guilty, Hochmuth went back to the slammer for backsliding and breaking all his promises. Why not? He is WELS. Find one WELS official whose word is his bond.

Likewise, Buchholz was elected (with Spencer's help) to purge his fetid district of Church Growth inanities like Jeff Gunn. Although Buchholz signed the "secret" WELS petition against Mark Jeske, Jon-Boy spoke in favor of Jeske at the convention. He looked and sounded like OJ Simpson pledging to find the real killer of Nicole.

Buchie not only switched on Jeske but soon found a strange affection for the same Jeff Gunn Warren-cloning parish he was keeping off the official rolls of the infallible Wisconsin Synod. Suddenly, they were welcomed into the district, synod, and Kingdom of God by the same man who kept talking and even working against them. Immediately, anyone who criticized Gunn was evil.

At one point Buchie had the funding for Gunn's parish down so low that Jeff went looking for a new job at Wisconsin Lutheran College. Instead they hired that retro-Luther figure Paul Kelm, whose cell groups would explode into Milwaukee and convert the city like lightning - so they claimed. But Gunn was given the consolation prize - a board membership at WLC, bringing the number of people from his parish on the board to three (3). When I published that fact, it was denied (of course) and the board no longer listed parish membership.

I could list dozens of people who are scared to death that I will thank them by name for all their help. They think Jeske and Gunn are the problem when in fact - they are.



Nothing helps the opposition more than criticism followed by reversals and support. Team Jeske loves watching the so-called Intrepids moonwalk away from their blog. That is a clever move - the moonwalk, The person seems to walking forward but instead moves backward.