The Ad Hoc Commission Report is summarized and linked here.
The Together message is linked here.
KJV Daniel 5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. 25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of the thing:
- MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
- TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
- PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
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Perish Services, bereft of Bruce Becker but burdened with Paul Kelm, will fight for its life in the next few months before the convention.
The Love-Shack-in-Exile is now located at Holy Word, Austin, Texas, where disgraced SP Gurgel is working with Kudu Don Patterson to retake the synod for Church Shrinkage. The Church Shrinkers have had their way since 1977, when Ron Roth started the pathetic organ of false doctrine called TELL. While talking growth, the Shrinkers have taught false doctrine, lined their pockets with synod money, and devastated the synod, defenestrating anyone who dared question their infallibility.
Patterson's wealthy suburban church can afford multiple safaris in Africa and two properties owned by Kudu Don, and yet they still have their hands out for synod subsidy when other entities are truly suffering from a lack of funds.
I heard Mark Jeske speak with typical arrogance about his desire to see Northwestern College closed. Apparently the faculty did not bow down to him while he was a student there. Or they mentioned Lutheran doctrine often enough to irritate him. Jeske will be another focal point in saving Perish Services.
Do not forget A-town, the Fox Valley churches led astray by John Parlow, Steve Witte, and Ron Ash. They are self-indulgent, bongo-drum beating beehives of anti-Lutheran activity. Parlow is a failure who could not scrape up enough funds to have one campus (denied, of course - anonymously). Like Jeske and Patterson, Parlow gets fat subsidies when his congregation should be supporting others.
The CORE is the shining light, the best example of what Perish Services, Church and Chicanery, and Schwaermer training has to offer:
- The name Lutheran abandoned as an obstacle.
- The word church also left by the wayside as a barrier to growth.
- Reaching out to WELS members; aka, skimming the cream while calling it a mission.
- Rock music.
- An obsession with hedonism.
- A full-time assistant to help with work that is clearly not being done anyway - minimal worship and Bible study, no Lutheran content provided, maximum Tweeting.
- And of course, wasting a great deal of money while providing a high visibility embarrassment to all Lutherans, regardless of race, gender, synod, country of origin, or sexual orientation.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Perish Services in WELS Reads Writing on the Wall:...":
St. Peter's in Freedom, WI is the parent of their whorish daughter congregation, The CORE. Perhaps they've taken Freedom too far in their thinking of what is God-pleasing.
Certainly no one can claim this is a good use of resources and proper stewardship. Is there really no better use for $100,000 or whatever this costs to get off the ground?
They may gently reassure themselves that it is free grant money, so it doesn't really cost the congregation cash to run CORE. But it does cost them their reputation as proper stewards and discerners of right from wrong.
I Cor 4:1-2:
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Perish Services in WELS Reads Writing on the Wall:...":
I think you guys should worry more about minding your own p's and q's and let the Lord decide how he wants his church to grow. If it is of man it will fail. If it is of God it will succeed and we must have the wisdom and MATURITY to accept either outcome as the Lord sees fit. You guys are the first to throw stones and yet how innocent are all of you? What divisive talk. You cling to your own understandings and you are as guilty as those you are accusing. You decry the mysteries of God and yet presume to know it all. May the Lord have mercy on all of us!
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GJ - The Church and Chicaneries wanted to be judged by their results. That is fine, though anti-Biblical. They have decreased the size of the denomination during 30+ years of population growth. They have bankrupted the Wisconsin Synod during a time of enormous gift-giving through St. Marvin of Schwan. As Donald Trump would say, upon emerging from yet another bankruptcy, "You're fired!"
