Leave your mess behind
If we look at ourselves according to our sins, we will forever be the guy who spilled his drink. Instead, we need to leave our mess at the cross of Jesus.
Author: Donald W. Patterson
Recently I was on a plane sitting quietly and waiting for other passengers to board. Across the aisle and a few seats in front of me, a tall young man in military fatigues was trying to get into his seat. He was obviously coming home from Iraq. In one hand he had a backpack. In the other he had a soft drink in a cup, which he put precariously above the seat on the edge of the luggage storage shelf.
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GJ - One reader asked, "Was Patterson writing about returning from another Church Growth conference?" Ben Golish denies being at the Exponential Conference, but his co-pastor Stelljes, son of Patterson's Abiding Word Church, was in attendance with Gunga Don and others. Unfortunately, a complete list of attendees from WELS has not been published. Yet Rick Warren posed with his gang. And Ski posed all over the place at Andy Stanley's Drive Anabaptist Conference.
Note that unionist Patterson is still merrily writing for FIC (nee The Northwestern Lutheran). Other Church and Change gurus are also prominent authors in the same issue.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Leaving the Mess Behind":
How long will you wring your hands and regurgitate the same vomit week after week? Just maybe you are the one in error with your little band of Ichabodians. Misery sure does love company. Satan is crouching at your door, desiring you Mr. Ichabod, waiting to devour you, if he hasn't already...
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Leaving the Mess Behind":
It amazes me about the plank in your eye...blind hatred. What a paradox you are Ichabod. An enigma. Just rememeber while you point the finger at others, three are pointing back at you.
Here is a new acronym for you. Gospel according to Greg. GAG.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Leaving the Mess Behind":
Wow the attackers and the tone have gotten more biting. Rev. Jackson must be hitting pretty close to home for some.
These attackers have no problem with CG conferences, Keynote Stetzer, plagiarized sermons, free vicars, tons of free grant money to copy the reformed.
Step-up and show the errors in Rev. Jackson's posts. Pastor Ben admits to not going to the CG conference but others have bragged about going to CG conferences..
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GJ - I wonder why some people read almost 2,000 insightful, fact-filled posts and come away filled with blind hatred. Is this required reading at The Love Shack and The Sausage Factory?
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Leaving the Mess Behind":
Just curious, why do you call the WELS Seminary at Mequon the "Sausage Factory" ? Is it because it is an all male school? For example, if you go to a party and no females show up, someone will say: "Looks like it's a sausage fest".
GJ - Nothing so lurid as that. Jay Webber told me the nickname for Mequon in the ELS is The Sausage Factory, because "they all come out the same." WELS Pastor and CG Guru James Huebner told me that they made fun of anyone with an interest in one topic or another, "which guaranteed that everyone came out the same." I said, "It also guarantees mediocrity."
Also, why do you call the HQ of the WELS the "Love Shack"? Are you inferring there is a lot of sexual hanky panky going on? I heard recently that another WELS teacher has been accused of sexual misconduct.
GJ - You have been reading too many news stories about WELS. I use the nickname The Love Shack because the Church Growth experts claim they convert people through love, and no group shows less love than the Church Growth Enthusiasts. They are filled with hate, spite, and envy. They cannot abide sound doctrine but use any tactic, no matter how loathsome, to drive out genuine Lutheran doctrine. Thanks to the spinelessness of the conservatives, they have almost succeeded.
