From Bishop to Bishop - The Strange Case of DeJaynes and Heiser, Stephan and Walther, and the Fort Wayne Assassins

 The Right Reverend Bishop James D. Heiser,
successor to The Right Reverend Bishop Randy DeJaynes
and the Johann Gerhard Institute Press.
Taking over as a bishop and indifferent about the Chief Article? - that is truly reclaiming Walther.

Long-time friends among the independent Lutherans stopped by and gave us TLHs and a box of books from ELDONA. I began to sort the books when I came across one with no title on the outside.

Inside title page -

The Office of the Ministry in Nicolaus Hunnius' Epitome Credendorum

Rev. James D. Heiser

The Johann Gerhard Institute

34 South Country Club Road

Decatur, Illinois 62521

1995 - James D. Heiser

The address is  now CrossPoint Community Church or is/was

an ELCA church - Christ Lutheran. Google is uncertain.

Funny how that never comes up.

Foreword

"It is with great pleasure that I write the Foreword to The Office of the Ministry in..."

So, who wrote this foreword? Turn page.

Answer - The Rt. Rev. R. L. DeJaynes, Bishop. The Lutheran Confessional Synod.

I only know a few facts about the short-lived Lutheran Confessional Synod. DeJaynes was an LCA pastor who made himself bishop. He had his wife preach for him when he was out of town. Somehow Heiser resided there and disputed with DeJaynes about the books when everything blew up. Jay Webber and Kincaid Smith worked to get the ELS and WELS in fellowship with the LCS, once again proving how little doctrinal discernment Ft. Wayne graduates have. Like cheap tires, Ft. Wayne graduates go flat early or just blow out on the road.

So Heiser, who left the LCMS to join Bishop DeJaynes, went back to the LCMS and later received a call to Salem, Malone, Texas, LCMS, where he worked hard to get control of the congregation's property. He took the congregation into his new sect - ELDONA. I knew about ELDONA before Heiser announced it, because his putative website was already listed in the browsers. Like Cascione, another Ft. Wayne graduate, he held onto Holy Mother Missouri for the longest time before being pulled away. Like Kincaid Smith, the pension plan was the prize - so he got the property and the pension plan.

Even though Heiser admitted in 2000 that he was appalled by UOJ, when he learned what they really meant by Objective Justification, he partnered with Rolf Preus and his bros from the ELS when they were kicked out or walked out of the ELS sect. The others went back to the Little Sect on the Prairie - and Rolf begged and apologized his way back into the LCMS.

The mystery book and Cascione's recent oration against Scaer prompted me to post on the topic of horrible Ft. Wayne graduates and their evil, duplicitous ways. Cascione wrote about all the pastors before him, in various parishes - all of them having at least one mistress. I thought - "How clever. The congregations are not named. The pastors are not named. He has defamed a lot of people without any facts stated. Of course Otten publishes this drivel because he is Cascione's xerox machine, the only person left who believes anything Cascione says.

I took account of the Ft. Wayne graduates I have known personally, at least to some degree, alas some to a great degree. What do they have in common? Here is a list -

1. Paul McCain
2. Jay Webber
3. James Heiser
4. Jack Cascione
5. Kincaid Smith
6. Rolf Preus

They start out friendly (except for Rolf) and quickly become tar-babies. Ft. Wayne graduates go out of their way to engage in behavior that would make Mequon graduates blush - quite a feat. But I will let God sort that out. 

They have this in common - after three or more years at Ft. Wayne, which they modestly call The Fort, they show no knowledge of Lutheran doctrine whatsoever. No wonder Concordia Publishing House (McCain) chooses to promote Reformation trinkets, gee-gaws, and dog collars.

We have this confidence - Bishop Heiser's tiny cult is going nowhere. Anyone who joins from the outside is silenced. Those who used to post on the Net no longer say anything in public, whether laymen or pastors. The ELDONUTs themselves do not publish anything in particular. Their congregational websites offer such treats as - doctrine - a copy of the ELDONA graphic. That really helps when they jump from UOJ as an adiaphoron to Justification by Faith - and back to silence.

Heiser never mentions the rare books I sent him for free,
or Thy Strong Word, which he sold,
or the fund-raising I did for him in getting a rare set of books.
He "borrowed" one set of books and kept it,
but whines about me publishing this photo he published.
So where is the watermark on the photo? Hmm.