Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Ministers in Fellowship with UOJist Jay Webber, the ELS, and WELS.
The Institute Is Unaccredited, So the Degrees Have No Academic Standing

Becky Hand preaching the Word #LCMCDNA. Rev. Hand, a Texan, is one of our first MDiv graduates, and we are so proud of her. ILT.

And we have begun! #LCMCDNA this year's#LCMC. Annual Gathering gets underway with Rev. Steve Lien leading the singing of Beautiful Savior. ILT.

Stephen C. Lien

Gallatin, Missouri

Coordinator for Pastoral Ministry

Pastor Steve Lien, our Coordinator for Pastoral Ministry, works with seminarians and pastors navigating our certification process and works alongside office staff in maintaining our lists of active, available for call, emeritus and inactive pastors. He joins others from the Ministry Board in assisting congregations in the call process, those dealing with other transitions or conflict, and helps equip, encourage and train our pastors.

Pastor Lien grew up in New York City, graduated from High School in Minnesota, and went to Bible School, college and seminary in Seattle and Minneapolis/St. Paul. He has served as Associate and Senior Pastor in large and small congregations in South Dakota, Texas, Iowa and California. His background includes a Doctor of Ministry degree focused on organizing and leading congregations for ministry in the 21st Century. He has also received consultant training and is certified in Myers-Brigs Type Indicator (MBTI). (WOW!)

Pastor Lien and his wife, Joanne, have three grown children and nine small grandchildren. He enjoys laughing, running, biking, reading and pontooning with the grandkids at their lake home.

Coordinator for Pastoral Ministry,

DMin Luther Seminary ELCA

(like Jack Kilcrease, another ILT staffer)

Stephen C. Lien
PO Box 361
Gallatin, Missouri 64640
612.424.7316
Email

Go ye therefore and consult all nations, charging heavy fees, because that is where the money is at.

Jay Webber, STM from ILT, with Gene Bunkowske, LCMS Church Growth Leader,
wonder why I think UOJ and Church Growth go so well together.

Changes in Hobbies and Avocations.
New Work Ahead

Higher education has written its own rules for a long time. As I expected years ago, they have priced themselves out of the market by assuming everyone would borrow gubmint money for any degree for any reason. There is also a lot of greed in higher education. The administrators see each student as a walking bag of money, so that twists their management and goals.

I will still be teaching but on a smaller scale. When tuition was reasonable I worked at one school. As prices zoomed, I added a second one and even a third for a few semesters.

I did not even start looking for more educational work. Instead, I am branching out - or going back to my roots in retail.

I will eliminate most of my hobby time on Facebook and reduce blogging. Since I blog more than most, even at low ebb, that will simply eliminate some of the extras I toss in.

Today I am putting this book on justification together. When that is completed and sent to people, I will start on Creation Gardening, which I hope to finish by mid-summer.

Change or Die! really means
Change and Die! with ELCA.
Mark the Mortician approves this fiasco in honor of the Reformation,
but justification by faith earns the Left Foot of Fellowship.

Mark the Mortician has proved my case - that the "conservative" leaders are taking their sects into complete apostasy and fellowship with ELCA.

A layman wrote - "Justification by faith is like formaldehyde, it disinfects, preserves and prevents decay. Too bad Mark the Mortician uses the fruit juice of UOJ to preserve his corpses. They decompose and rot quickly." Signed - A Real Mortician

Nevertheless, I will report the felonies that come to my attention. Someone sent me the drag queen pictures from Michigan Lutheran Seminary, and another one alerted me to the cross-dressers at Andy Mueller's WELS congregation.

Justification by faith is a good topic. "Do you write about anything else?" - one snide little Facebooker asked. I guess he needs to do some reading. A Missouri Synod pastor asked, when I challenged him about UOJ - "How will you give any comfort to the dying?" I said, "You need to study Luther's sermons." Imagine spending a lifetime teaching justification without faith as "comfort."

Long Before Caitlin Jenner, WELS Michigan Lutheran Seminary Boys
Cross-Dressed Each Year

Cross-dressing does not stop at the prep school.
Church and Change Pastor Adam Mueller
cross-dressed with his council members
at their congregational picnic.