Rydecki Posts WELS Removal Letter, Signed by "Let's Continue To Discuss This Issue" Buchholz

How is your false doctrine working out for you, Jon-Boy?
WELS is tanking and will disappear soon after the equally UOJ ELS.

Jon-Boy actually graduated from a WELS seminary,
which means he is an expert on everything.
The Holy Spirit will not let him err in doctrine, as WELS teaches, because God placed him in that position, with some help from Steve Spencer.
Arguing with a WELS DP is arguing with God! - according to one deluded pastor.

Paul Rydecki
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Five years ago today, I was suspended from the ministerium of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). The reason for it is explicitly stated in my letter of suspension, which I share here for the first time. The WELS claimed that I had “denied the truth and fallen into error.” “Specifically,” I had “refused to acknowledge and confess that God forgave the sin of the world when Jesus died on the cross (John 1:29; John 19:30; 1 John 2:2; Romans 5:18; 2 Cor. 5:19; Apology IV, 103).” It’s true that I refused to confess that God “forgave the sin of the world,” because in none of the passages listed as “proof” of this teaching (nor anywhere else in Holy Scripture) does it say anything about God having already “forgiven” the sin of the whole world or about God having already “justified” the whole world (as I have written extensively elsewhere).

What I have learned from Scripture, and what I confess, together with the whole Book of Concord, is that Christ willingly bore the sin of the world, suffered for it and died for it; that God wants all men to be saved; that God, in the Gospel, sincerely offers Christ to all sinners as Mediator and as a refuge from the just condemnation we have all deserved under God’s holy Law; and that God justifies/forgives sinners by grace alone, through faith alone (which is worked by God the Holy Spirit through the Gospel in Word and Sacrament), in Christ Jesus alone, not by works, and not apart from faith. How tragically ironic that a so-called Lutheran church body would condemn as heresy the teaching that sinners are justified by faith alone in Christ—the hallmark of Lutheran doctrine and the teaching on which the Church stands or falls!

 UOJists always lie - the LCMS and WELS have included
leaders who taught Justification by Faith, but they
have been removed by the junkyard dogs of Enthusiasm,
who coincidentally love, love, love Church Growth.

So today, I thank God for using the leadership of the WELS to rescue me and my congregation from a heterodox church body. They meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, and has continued to preserve our little flock in the truth of justification by faith alone, even blessing us with a communion of faithful pastors and parishes in the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA). May God be praised for His precious Gospel, and may He graciously keep us steadfast in His Word. And if anyone is curious about the details of all this and cares enough about the Gospel to examine it further, I am happy to walk through it with anyone.

Doug Lindee, another Intrepid Lutheran,
had to admit that UOJ comes from Pietism.

Clerical Collars for Roses - Or Chicken Wire

The biggest threat to our rose garden is not snow and ice, but a warm winter. A very late fall, like last year's, lulls us into thinking the flowers are safe, but that is not so.

Snow forms an effective blanket over soil and plants, which not only preserves moisture, but keeps the killing frost away from soil creatures and tender plants. As we are reminded from Isaiah 55, the Word of God is not only compared to rainwater, but also to snow. The final benefit of snow for the winter is melting into the soil to give a powerful boost to all life, plants in particular.

I was very concerned for the roses in New Ulm, Many-snow-tah, so I studied how to protect them for the winter. Plastic snow cones - still being sold - did not seem to be a good solution. They might be too warm at times and likely to promote killing molds by sealing in the moisture.

I have my doubts about this model.

A better solution was a chicken wire fence around the small rose garden and leaves stacked up four feet high. In the spring I removed the wire but not the leaves - the papery remains were absorbed into the soil by earthworms and mites. The leaves formed air pockets around the roses that insulated them from 60 below wind chill. The leaves began the rotting process during the winter and finished the rot when spring arrived. Birds cheerfully flipped leaves over to expose the soil creatures trying to eat their dinner, so eaters were eaten and the soil improved.

My first gardening investment in Springdale was chicken wire for the compost pile. Mr. Gardener and I put all our extra greens and a few leaves into it for years, plus a handful of eager red wiggler earthworms. As often as I filled it to the brim, it sank down again and fed my natural earthworm farm. The vegetation around the compost flourished.

White-washed sepulchres - admit it -
you already thought that before the caption was added.

Clerical Collars
Another solution for roses is the plastic collar around each plant. they  remind me of the Oreo collars favored by Ft. Wayne graduates.

 This is more Roman than Anglican,
a Friar Tuck shirt barely able to be buttoned.
OSHA has labeled it a workplace hazard,
especially during long "working" lunches.

The rose collar is snapped into place around the base of the plant, the void filled with mulch (leaves, shredded wood, grass). The collar can be removed in the spring, though it is handy for protecting the plant from the onslaughts of the weed-eater.

 This is the collar I did not buy - more photogenic than white plastic, but more expensive.

Like snow, the mulch will provide air pockets to insulate the plant from the freezing, dry winds that attack the bud union. The grafted rose will continue to produce roses from the wild rose base, but the hybrid tea grafted onto it will die during a dry winter without snow, even when the weather is deceptively warm.

Best Outcomes for the Soil and Plants
The purpose of Creation Gardening is to save money and labor by eliminating the delusional methods of chemical growing. When left up to Creation, soil is moist, packed with life, easily dug, and ready to grow plants. Earthworms till and fertilize, along with a host of other creatures.

When I had tree stumps all through the rose garden, one visitor said, "It looks like a cemetery." All those stumps were there to provide food for the soil, safe areas for birds to spot insects and preen their feathers. One stump is now so covered with Trumpet Vine that it looks ancient. Other stumps serve as bases for solar lights at night.

Lutherdom is a howling, dry desert today - not for trying Luther's doctrine but for ignoring the Reformation altogether. All the chemical enhancements applied by Fuller Seminary, the Fulleroids, Willow Creek, and Groeschel/Stanley have destroyed the congregations and synods. There are exceptions - where pastors have not been seduced by Thrivent funds and anti-Word programs bought from snake-oil salesmen.

Creation pastors can be identified easily, just as the frauds can be. Ask the pastor what he thinks about Luther or the efficacy of the Word.