ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Thursday, August 24, 2017
WELS Elderly Pastor Paul Kelm - Change or Die!
He Started an ELCA Congregation in His First Parish
Kelm was in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and I subbed for a WELS pastor there. That was Kelm's first parish, and he left a lot of problems behind, as I recall that pastor telling me. WELS Pastor Roger Zehms told a story about Kelm there. He drove somewhere to meet with a group of Lutherans and was conducting services there as one of the first stealth pastors, hiding the doctrine and denomination. The group looked into what he supposedly stood for - and they kicked him out. They became an LCA congregation and presumably are ELCA today. Zehms had a big laugh over that.
WELS Pastor John Parlow at Jeske's Change or Die Conference
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| Parlow, Ski, Glende, Bishop Katie, and other WELS notables attended the Andy Stanley Babtist Drive Conference - and Ski bragged about it on his blog. |
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| Someone sent this Parlow cartoon to me. |
Greek Lesson - John 14
ΚΑΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ 141550 Stephanus New Testament (TR1550)
14 μη ταρασσεσθω υμων η καρδια; πιστευετε εις τον θεον, και εις εμε πιστευετε
2 εν τη οικια του πατρος μου μοναι πολλαι εισιν; ει δε μη ειπον αν υμιν; πορευομαι ετοιμασαι τοπον υμιν
3 και εαν πορευθω και ετοιμασω υμιν τοπον, παλιν ερχομαι και παραληψομαι υμας προς εμαυτον - ινα οπου ειμι εγω, και υμεις ητε
4 και οπου εγω υπαγω οιδατε και την οδον οιδατε
5 λεγει αυτω θωμας κυριε ουκ οιδαμεν που υπαγεις και πως δυναμεθα την οδον ειδεναι
6 λεγει αυτω ο ιησους, εγω ειμι η οδος και η αληθεια και η ζωη; ουδεις ερχεται προς τον πατερα ει μη δι εμου
7 ει εγνωκειτε με και τον πατερα μου εγνωκειτε αν και απ αρτι γινωσκετε αυτον και εωρακατε αυτον
8 λεγει αυτω φιλιππος κυριε δειξον ημιν τον πατερα και αρκει ημιν
9 λεγει αυτω ο ιησους τοσουτον χρονον μεθ υμων ειμι και ουκ εγνωκας με φιλιππε? ο εωρακως εμε εωρακεν τον πατερα και. πως συ λεγεις δειξον ημιν τον πατερα
10 ου πιστευεις οτι εγω εν τω πατρι και ο πατηρ εν εμοι εστιν? τα ρηματα α εγω λαλω υμιν (απ εμαυτου ου λαλω), ο δε πατηρ - ο εν εμοι μενων - αυτος ποιει τα εργα
11 πιστευετε μοι οτι εγω εν τω πατρι και ο πατηρ εν εμοι ει, δε μη δια τα εργα αυτα πιστευετε μοι
12 αμην αμην λεγω υμιν ο πιστευων εις εμεm - τα εργα α εγω ποιω - κακεινος ποιησει και μειζονα τουτων ποιησει, οτι εγω προς τον πατερα μου πορευομαι
13 και ο τι αν αιτησητε εν τω ονοματι μου τουτο ποιησω ινα δοξασθη ο πατηρ εν τω υιω
14 εαν τι αιτησητε εν τω ονοματι μου εγω ποιησω
15 εαν αγαπατε με τας εντολας τας εμας τηρησατε
16 και εγω ερωτησω τον πατερα, και αλλον παρακλητον δωσει υμιν ινα μενη μεθ υμων εις τον αιωνα
17 το πνευμα της αληθειας, ο ο κοσμος ου δυναται λαβειν, οτι ου θεωρει αυτο ουδε γινωσκει αυτο; υμεις δε γινωσκετε αυτο οτι παρ υμιν μενει και εν υμιν εσται
18 ουκ αφησω υμας ορφανους; ερχομαι προς υμας
19 ετι μικρον, και ο κοσμος με ουκ ετι θεωρει; υμεις δε θεωρειτε με; οτι εγω ζω και υμεις ζησεσθε - short time is a frequently found phrase in John
20 εν εκεινη τη ημερα γνωσεσθε υμεις οτι εγω εν τω πατρι μου, και υμεις εν εμοι, ,καγω εν υμιν
21 ο εχων τας εντολας μου και τηρων αυτας εκεινος εστιν ο αγαπων με ο δε αγαπων με αγαπηθησεται υπο του πατρος μου και εγω αγαπησω αυτον και εμφανισω αυτω εμαυτον
22 λεγει αυτω ιουδας ουχ ο ισκαριωτης κυριε τι γεγονεν οτι ημιν μελλεις εμφανιζειν σεαυτον και ουχι τω κοσμω
23 απεκριθη ο ιησους και ειπεν αυτω, εαν τις αγαπα με τον λογον μου τηρησει, και ο πατηρ μου αγαπησει αυτον και προς αυτον ελευσομεθα και μονην παρ αυτω ποιησομεν
24 ο μη αγαπων με τους λογους μου ου τηρει και ο λογος ον ακουετε ουκ εστιν εμος αλλα του πεμψαντος με πατρος
25 ταυτα λελαληκα υμιν παρ υμιν μενων
26 ο δε παρακλητος το πνευμα το αγιον ο πεμψει ο πατηρ εν τω ονοματι μου εκεινος υμας διδαξει παντα και υπομνησει υμας παντα α ειπον υμιν
27 ειρηνην αφιημι υμιν ειρηνην την εμην διδωμι υμιν, ου καθως ο κοσμος διδωσινn εγω διδωμι υμιν; μη ταρασσεσθω υμων η καρδια μηδε δειλιατω
Irene, irenic
28 ηκουσατε οτι εγω ειπον υμιν, υπαγω και ερχομαι προς υμας; ει ηγαπατε με εχαρητε αν οτι ειπον πορευομαι προς τον πατερα οτι ο πατηρ μου μειζων μου εστιν
29 και νυν ειρηκα υμιν πριν γενεσθαι ινα οταν γενηται πιστευσητε
30 ουκ ετι πολλα λαλησω μεθ υμων, ερχεται γαρ ο του κοσμου τουτου αρχων και εν εμοι ουκ εχει ουδεν
31 αλλ ινα γνω ο κοσμος οτι αγαπω τον πατερα και καθως ενετειλατο μοι ο πατηρ ουτως ποιω εγειρεσθε αγωμεν εντευθεν
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From 2009 - A Repost of DP Don Patterson's Church and Change or Die Connections.
Updates Included
Read - Texas Clone Wars for more details about this odious network.
No wonder WELS is broke!
Missionary Harold Johne, whose son-in-law Marc Schroeder was booted from WELS, also hunts with Patterson.
Marc is 100% Church Growth.
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| Don Patterson - hunter. |
Pastor Don Patterson: "We reach out together with Christ the Rock, Round Rock, Texas. This new preaching station is an outreach of Holy Word, Austin. The group received Synod funding of $22,000 to assist in this outreach. Their hope and plan is to organize a congregation with an Early Childhood Development Center and a Lutheran elementary school. Presently the group numbers thirty-six communicants and forty-nine souls of whom five joined the group by Adult Confirmation. Presently there are four others enrolled in the BIC class. Average attendance has been 55 with an average of fifteen in Bible Class and eight in Sunday school. A Soccer Bible Camp in the target area of Round Rock had a regular attendance of 105 with 60% being non-members. A Parenting Seminar had thirty-five in attendance, 90% non-members."
Vicar Hall of Fame
Patterson's church is 30 years old, but he gets free vicars from a synodical grant aimed at "needy" congregations. Free vicars cover for him when he jets to Africa or to Church Growth conferences.
Helping You Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing
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| Is he the same Rob Guenther CP who protected the Love Letter Pastor and said "Nothing happened" when Wall was fired? |
Other Connections
Church and Chicanery epicenters are:
- Mark Jeske,
- Don Patterson.
- John Parlow.
- The Love Shack.
- Mequon.
- WELS Headquarters.
- Fox Valley AA.
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What Have We Learned Today?
VP Don Patterson keeps his name off the website of Church and Change, but he gave the Bible study at a previous conference. The connections above point to Church and Change and influential members of the synod.
Getting rid of Enthusiasm in WELS is possible, if the efficacious Word is used, but the network has grown so thoroughly under the watchful eyes of DPs like Glaeske and Seifert, that getting rid of it will be hard work, if it is even attempted.
When The Sausage Factory asks for papers from Paul Kelm and Don Patterson about how to improve seminary education, you know the fix is in. Did Kelm and Patterson suggest even more Church Growth idiocy? Is that possible after having two seminary presidents in a row with CGM tatoos?
No one at Mequon has done anything about this for decades. Why should they? Their deluded students treat joining the LCMS as a catastrophe. At the same time their noodles are filled with Fuller and Willow Creek doctrine - contrary to the Christian faith and the Lutheran Confessions. Read this paper, which treats a WELS/LCMS split in typical hysterical fashion without acknowledging that Church Growth has taken over the congregation.
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Koine will sing at Rock and Roll on April 5th.
Koine is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir of Church and Change.
According to the BHM report..http://www.welssc.org/Reports/2007/2007-10%20DMB.pdf
Doebler's administrative assistant got a pay raise to 48k...(nice) with the syond cuts Rock and Roll gets a raise... As bad as AIG.
Another research report from Team Ichabod:
The COP met at Holy Word in January.. They love Patterson and Rock and Roll Doebler..
http://www.welssc.org/Reports/2009/2009-01%20DP%20Report.pdf
And look what layman, fellow Patterson Zebra hunter, Timmerman says about worship. "Are not most areas of worship adiaphora?"
http://www.welssc.org/Reports/2009/2009-01%20SC%20Report%20Page%202.pdf.
and DP Glaeske, Patterson, and now Gurgel nod their heads in approval..
Patterson still wants free vicars and he wants a free staff minister..
http://www.welssc.org/Reports/2009/2009-01%20DMB%20Report.pdf
Doebler has his hand out too.
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Here is a report, modified from another team member:
VP Don Patterson has affluent members, so one must wonder why he has his hand out for more synod money.
Robert Timmerman owns a business called Fine Lumber (http://www.www.finelumber.com/). He was the congregational president but is probably an Elder now. He has served on the national WELS Synodical Council. He has funded safaris for Kudu Don Patterson and Missionary Johne (father-in-law of Marc Schroeder, who was booted from WELS and joined Missouri with his congregation).
Ron Stelljes is now the congregational president at Holy Word. They sold their luxurious house to Holy Word so Patterson could have it as his parsonage. Their son John is in Floria.
-Treasurer Lew Rabenberg is a professor at The University of Texas at Austin. His wife is an attorney.
-Financial Secretary Allan Gebert is a self-employed CPA. His oldest son, Zack, currently is studying to be a pastor.
-Elder Bill Starke works at IBM as an engineer.
-Elder Gary Franke works for the Round Rock Express, the local AAA baseball club.
-Elder Nathan Steinke works for Intel as an engineer.
-Property and Maintenance Committee member Tim Moll owns some kind of electrical/lighting company. He provided all of the lighting to the new church built around 2002.
-Property and Maintenance Committee member Clint Rogas has a son (Clint, Jr.) who used to be a highly-paid technical consultant. He gave it up to study for the ministry and now has a congregation in Michigan.
-Staff Minister Chad White used to work for Motorola, but he gave that
up to become a staff minister.
The Elders at Christ the Rock in Round Rock:
-Andy Alff is a geologist, and his wife has been a teacher at Holy Word School for years.
-Tony Previti and Mark Smith both work for Dell Computer. Mark's wife, Kelly, is the daughter of Staff Minister Bob Hill. Her brother, Ryan Hill, used to be the principal at Holy Word until he took a call up to Michigan.
-Joe Krohn, the Rock and Roll blogger, is a friend to Patterson (isn't everyone in Church and Chicanery?). Joe probably provided the anonymous and smug comment that the COP approved of Rock and Roll Church, that they got another grant.
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GJ - I have to wonder why Holy Word in Austin needs to take away mission subsidy money from others when the members are well established in the professions and in business.
Even stranger is wasting all that money flying the Conference of Pussycats into Texas so they can agree to do nothing. I have already seen Patterson's network go into a series of denials and huff-huff emails. Doubtless even more happens when the subsidy money is threatened.
There is your offering money at work. Read the links and weep.
Kingdom Workers = Jeff Davis, Board Member, Church and Change on their board. Isn't that sweet? And no one knows who the secret supporters are. No wonder WELS has discussed a synodical split and who gets the loot.
PS - Corrections are always welcome, as long as they are signed with a real name.
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A correction or addition just came in, but I forgot the researcher's name already:
Holy Word member Mr. Paul Mattek http://paulstherapeuticfurniture.com/pauls.htm , lay rep on the Board for Home Missions (BHM).
http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?2617&collectionID=1332&contentID=87291&shortcutID=29637
They are the ones who give out free vicars and staff ministers.
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GJ - When the COP met with Rock and Roll at Holy Word in Austin, did anyone think they would drop-kick Patterson into Barton Springs Pool?
One observer cannot understand how Kudu Don went over to the dark side. His own congregation is "normal," and so are the ones he helped start in the area. But now he is behind Rock and Roll, Church and Chicanery.
In Columbus, Floyd Luther Stolzenburg got to the money man. I heard that businessman tell Marc Schroeder (son of Salty) to get rid of the liturgy and creeds.
Given Timmerman's lack of understanding of Lutheran theology, the same thing could have happened at Holy Word in Austin.
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need synod subsidies.
They must know how to po-mouth...or network.
From our research department, based on published information:
Austin is in Travis County (http://www.traviscad.org), and Round Rock is in Williamson County (http://www.wcad.org).
Paul Mattek's home is at http://www.traviscad.org/travisdetail.php?theKey=142144 . It's valued at a little over half a million dollars.
Looking under Robert Timmerman in Travis County, you'll see he owns three properties. His business location is worth $350K. The other two homes are worth a total of $650K. He's got some kind of ranch property in the Texas Hill Country as well.
Ron Stelljes is in the Williamson County listing for only $180K. The researcher thinks it is undervalued.
Tim Moll's home is 2/3 of a million dollars.
Bill Starke - $280K.
Lew Rabenberg - $254K.
Allan Gebert - $195K.
Nathan Steinke - $182K.
Gary Franke - $170K.
Andy Alff - $170K.
I found a "Joey Krohn" at
http://www.traviscad.org/travisdetail.php?theKey=584345 , and he's got a home listed at $276K.
And Pastor Doebler's home looks to be worth about $165K.
It looks like Holy Word sold the parsonage to Pastor Patterson on Nov 30, 2006. It's appraised at over $200K. You can get this information from the "Datasheet" PDF link on http://www.wcad.org/appraisal/publicaccess/PropertyDetail.aspx?PropertyID=162930
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Why Is the Patterson Network On Synod Welfare?":
You also neglected to unearth Patterson's own ranch that he owns out in the Hill Country.
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GJ - Doebler, at Rock and Roll
The amount of money wasted in WELS is simply phenomenal. Estimate the lease and overhead for the Popcorn Cathedral of Rock in A-Town. Add the salaries and benefits of a pastor and a pricey executive assistant. That is a staggering amount of money for a "mission" no one wanted, for a white elephant theatre, for two people Tweeting about how hard they work: one service a week during Lent, a half-hour service followed by a three-hour party, with an official launch date based a rock band and a performance platform being built. The Sunday evening services allow local WELS members to attend to make the "mission" look like it has real attendance.
The CORE's two blogs, from two full-time people, are D.O.A.
Rick Gunn has a similar deal in CrossRoads
Most pastors have an unpaid staffer, named Frau Pfarrer (the pastor's wife). The vast majority of wives are lucky to get a little income as the church secretary or school teacher. I wonder what these wives think about Church and Chicanery missions needing $50k staffers when there is so little to do and even less is being done.
I proved to a local professional that a little blogging would bring in new customers. She and her husband did a little more with the blog I set up for them. They landed a new customer just like that, for free. The Internet is a phenomenal method for broadcasting the Word for little or no cost. I find the Shrinkers are ga-ga for useless overhead but numb to the efficacious Word.
Look at the silly website for The CORE. A lot of elaborate eye-candy techniques are designed for people with short attention spans. But nothing has been done in publishing good content since it was launched with a three-hour party. Given the need for three days to recover from a three-hour party, a website could easily have dozens of worthwhile items on it by now. But, WELS members should be glad, the offensive new material is published at a glacial pace. Twitter uses up so much time and energy, dontcha know.
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Anonymouse has left a new comment on your post "Why Is the Patterson Network On Synod Welfare?":
You will be judged by your own standards, Ichabod.
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GJ - Actually, WELS is being judged by its own standards, by its own members. They are appalled at: the COP protecting false teachers: throwing money at wasteful self-indulgent, non-missions; and soft-pedaling the Stetzer gig at Church and Chicanery's conference.
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| Anonymouse - your own UOP professor judges you via the Word. |
Against the UOJ Liars - Luther and the Scriptures
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| The synodicals point to themselves and their glorious history, as long as their multiple felonies and doctrinal pratfalls are kept from the somnolent public. |
The prices available for The Sermons of Martin Luther, Volume II, are found at this link.
One member wrote this -
Dear Pastor, Thank you so much for the beautiful copy of "The Sermons of Martin Luther".. I just started reading it I don't want to put it down.
A long-time reader just ordered six copies of Volume II at the author's price.
The point of this publishing avalanche is to get Luther in the hands of readers at a reasonable price, not to make money. So many faux-Lutheran entities have blocked me that the normal retail channels are locked tighter than the books of the Clinton Foundation.
Theologian Frank Fiorenza, now at Harvard University, told me in the car as I drove him home from our class at Notre Dame, "It doesn't matter how much you write or how good it is, Greg. You need distribution."
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| Perhaps these Concordia Publishing House glasses will hide the pastor's Church Growth Eyes. |
"Growth Awareness Kit...'Church Growth Eyes' game. An enjoyable growth simulation game for large or small groups." $39.95
Dr. Win Arn, President, 1989-90 Church Leadership Resource Catalog, 2670 S. Myrtle Avenue, Suite 201, Monrovia, CA 91016 Church Growth, Inc. p. 9. 800-423-4844.
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| The Concordia Publishing House shot glass honors the style of leadership that has dragged Lutherdom to depths of degradation. |
Blocking does not bother me, because the synodical avarice in selling Luther doo-dads has only motivated me to continue such work and encourage others to do the same. Reading a book is one thing, but working with it for weeks in editing is quite another. People have generously donated their time to help, and they have gained so much in reading Luther already.
Years ago, I suggested that two of our members obtain the old red set of Luther's Sermons, which was easily found for $40, in eight volumes. Now that set is double the price on the used market and not easy to find. Although the Grand Rapids Lenker set was attractive and portable, it was difficult to read, due to its compact small print. The larger volumes being printed now are matches for the content of the old red set, minus a lot of extra material, such as the content outlines. They are also easy to read and enhanced with Norma Boeckler's illustrations.
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| Every time a reader reviews a volume, an angel earns his wings. See below. The Sermons of Martin Luther, Volume II. Or, start with the Author's Page. |
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