Tales from the Crypt - By Dimestore Liam

Dimestore Liam has left a new comment on your post "Mequon Connection in Jeske Exit":

Wow, I know a lot of those guys... I had no Idea the WELS had gotten so much crazier since my exit in 1992! Mark Jeske played in a "Christian Rock" band with a guy I knew, I met him at the '85 Youth Rally; Tom Jeske was my tutor at MLS that Fall... R.e. Mequon '78, Mark Porinsky was my Pastor from 1979-1985; Kenneth Jahnke was the emissary who had to explain why I was kicked out of St. Mark's, Flat Rock MI & then why Pastor Gore & I were 86d from the WELS a couple of years later, poor guy...

As for Mark Freier, I got in a shoving match with him in the chapel at HVLHS in 1987 because he was mis-quoting scripture in his sermon and I stood up and called him a liar, hahaha... He jumped down from the pulpit and took a swing at me. That wasn't the last time I had a run-in with him, either. That guy is a complete lunatic! Oh yeah, I also just finished reading Mark Braun's "A Tale Of Two Synods" immediately before getting online this morning, which is how I ended up on this website again...

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GJ - Freier's "Emergent Church" in South Lyons, Michigan is now a Covenant congregation. Like Kelm starting an ELCA church, Bob Mueller and Paul Kuske started a Covenant parish - with three WELS pastors getting it going.

Freier emerged as a consultant being paid about $50,000 to advise Parlow's congregation in how to make a faster exit from Lutherdom.

Freier bragged on his website that he would perform a marriage for anyone, any religion - atheist, Hindu, you name it.

Mark Freier will coach you to success.

Dimestore Welcomes the Un-WELS-come

Dimestore Liam has left a new comment on your post "Intrepid Lutherans - Pastor Paul Rydecki Suspended...":

Pastor Rydecki- Welcome to the ranks of those thrown out of the WELS! In 1992, the self-described "Brethren" of the WELS here in Michigan did essentially the same thing to Pastor John Gore (and got rid of me at the same time simply because I defended my pastor & mentor) that has now been done to you. I won't go into extensive detail here, but the excuse they used was similar in that they called us "crypto-Catholics" for believing what we had been taught from childhood as Lutheran doctrine. If you are interested in more detail, you can contact me at DimestoreLiam@live.com - God bless you & god luck!

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GJ - Not to downplay the nastiness of Missouri, but WELS has a well deserved reputation for vindictive, mean-spirited, personal vendettas. John Seifert had a personal grudge against Marc Schroeder (son of Salty) in Columbus, Ohio. Therefore, Seifert kicked out Schroeder and Prince of Peace (now LCMS) for the very unionism that he (Seifert) supported as a member of the WELS Synodical Council. I offered my advice and quotations to Schroeder and his friends, but they did not show any gratitude.

This is WELS, the land of the rotten,
Grudges there are ne'er forgotten, look away, look away, lookaway UOJ.

The issue with John Gore was the Word consecrating the elements. Imagine teaching what is clearly taught in the Scriptures and Confessions. That will never do, said WELS, so they ousted Gore and Dimestore.

WELS is consistent. They mock the efficacy of the Word, so they are are lost in confusion about the efficacious Word consecrating the elements. Because they mock the Word, they elect Jim Huebner as their VP, to replace Wayne Mueller, since both mock the Word in their solemn declarations.