Celebrating blessings
Growing up the oldest of three in St. Paul, Minn., John Braun admits that at one time he thought about being a psychologist or a surgeon rather than being a pastor. But it was an encounter during a summer job in high school that led him to reconsider his calling in life. “This guy that I worked with, I don’t even think he was Lutheran, asked me, ‘Why is it that you don’t want to be a pastor?’ And the only reasons I could come up with were that I wanted more money and more prestige. I decided those weren’t very good reasons.” The rest they say is history.
Braun has spent his 36-year ministry in many different capacities. He has served as a parish pastor, a college professor at Northwestern College, the vice president for publishing services at Northwestern Publishing House, and now, added to that, the executive editor of Forward in Christ.
A self-described workaholic, Braun confesses that even in his free time he often can be found writing. However he does manage to get away from time to time, traveling with his wife of 37 years, Sandy. “We love the beach, the rhythmic rush of the waves, and the sunshine,” says Braun.
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GJ - Is the editor of FIC an agent for Church and Change? Just read the disgusting article below, published as "news" in the January FIC.
The models for St. Andrews are Mars Hill and North Point. Doebler--at Rock and Roll WELS Church--is cribbing Mars Hill material. Ski--CORE--posed giddily with Andy Stanley of North Point, at the Babtist conference held in Atlanta. Gunga Don Patterson (on the FIC team) took a group to Exponential, where Brother Stetzer was featured as one of many false teachers.
Is Braun a Church and Change agitator? Just look at the authors each issue. The majority are from the Church Growth benches of WELS.
WELS could balance its budget by no longer spending money to promote the doctrines of Fuller Seminary, Trinity Divinity School, Willow Creek, Mars Hill, and North Point.
