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| No, I don't see nothing wrong here. |
These thin, thin Christians don't know their left from their right, but they know their pastor's favorite color! Favorite activities! But, what pleases God? God wants to justify....but no! It's all about us!
Makes you want to weep.
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| Nothing says WELS marital bliss like posing with Katie Perry and posting it on Facebook as the profile picture (Glende) or in the albums (Ski). |
I checked out The CORE website because I was curious about Novotny ( and train wrecks). It was a depressing ( because of where WELS is going from where it once was) and annoying all at once. Do we really need another evangelical church? They chuck a few keywords out there to calm the Lutherans, but despite what they claim they aren't fooling everyone.
The CORE Websty and Commentary in Blue
"The purpose of the downtown campus is to have a church that, without compromising our beliefs, removes all barriers possible to reaching people with the lifesaving message of Jesus’ love and gift of salvation." (emphasis mine)
It's just not true...or maybe it is depending on what "our beliefs" means. The WELS has fallen in the trap just like the LCMS -- Fads. What are these barriers? Peter's sermon in Acts? Mark 16:16?
Everything they do has a mission statement like goes like this: "Blah-blah exists....." Same boiler plate everywhere in the WELS. It's pervasive. Off the cliff we go!
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| Ski - Glende's pal from prep school - left quite a legacy. Instead of being canned (with Glende) for various offenses, Schroeder and Patterson arranged an insta-call for Ski - to Texas. What do Ski, Glende, and the new guy have in common? - being mentored by Jeske. |
Back to The CORE:
"The CORE exists to transform lives for Christ through faith that is Real, Relevant, and Relational."
In my experience this really means:
"The CORE exists because it's all about you through Christ the Tool."
Christ the Tool, because because they belittle God and reduce him to their means to corporate evangelical Christianity. Efficacy of the Word? Nope. Efficacy depends on you! We can do it.....together (through Christ the Tool)!"
Browsing their website reveals the "922 church" as merely an activity center with catchy mantras / themes (cf. http://922church.com/myroots ) and a remarkable lack of Scripture (something I'd never dream to see in a "WELS" church). And, when they do mention Jesus (the Tool), it's always in an adolescent way. i.e. Jesus is cool! We did into the Word and get what we need!
Joel! Joel! Where's Osteen?!?! Just tattoo Jesus' name on it, and we're good to go!
So, they go about their business cultivating thin, thin, lives with shallow, shallow essential doctrine. When the storms come, it will all blow away.
But, it's all about YOU through Jesus the TOOL.
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| The polysect sect leader Mark Jeske arranges joint religious forums for ELCA-WELS-ELS, so they can witness to their common devotion to UOJ, women's ordination, abortion, and Thrivent funding. |
