Not Really Dr. Kelm

According to Zoominfo, Paul Kelm obtained a D.Min. from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.

The D.Min. degree was invented by seminaries as a way of getting ministers back into school. The pastors would not sign up unless they got a degree.

A few years ago the St. Louis WELS pastor was getting his D.Min. in Church Growth at Concordia, St. Louis. Kelm's degree probably focused on the same false doctrine.

The D.Min. is a quickie degree with little in the way of academic requirements or rigor. Try to get a university position with a D.Min. in Church Growth. The mirth will resound for months in the dean's office.

Ichabodians may recall that Lawrence Otto Olson once bragged about Fuller Seminary having more LCMS pastors enrolled than the two Missouri seminaries combined. Why not? Fuller is the path to glory among the so-called conservative synods. Needless to say, Olson was bragging about his own alma mater: Fuller Unionistic and Pentecostal Seminary.

Zoominfo is loaded with information about Paul Kelm, mostly from:

The Means of Grace Website.

Kelm is a favorite author for Church and Change:

Paul Kelm, D.Min., on Worship.

The unintentional humor award goes to these Wisconsin Synod knob-heads:

Church From Scratch - an amusing list of Who's Who in Church Growth in WELS.

Confidential to the webmaster of Church from Scratch - Scratch is a synonym for Satan.

Scratch

Pronunciation: (skrach), [key]
—n.
Old Scratch; Satan.

Actually, the name is quite appropriate. The CGM is the Church from Scratch. Once upon a time, where God built a church, Satan built a chapel (Luther). Now where God builds a chapel, Satan builds a cathedral.