Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Mark Jeske Leads Joint WELS-LCMS Worship Service:S...":
You seem to think that the visible church in WELS is without error or sin - But we really do know better. In terms of this situation with Jeske serving as a guest speaker (a situation which did, in fact, pass well over a year ago), I happen to know for a fact that the Watertown-area WELS pastors immediately recognized this as a mistake and confronted Rev. Jeske privately in (Christian) love. I can't speak for certain about what happened after that, but I don't think anything ever came from it. Was it wrong? Yes. Was it taken care of? Yes.
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- Hey Jerkson. I'm sure that you will be reporting that Jeske was not the special guest speaker...oh wait, that would mean you would have to do some actual research and tell the truth.
- October 15, 2009 8:49 AM
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Anonymous said...
- The original post was from August, 2008. I saw no mention of Jeske in the post. Can you link to the post where Jeske is mentioned?
- October 15, 2009 8:58 AM
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GJ - Right away there were denials that this happened when people knew it did happen. WELS is so-GA.
Once again, the WELS pastors have turned the Book of Concord upside-down. A public sin does not require private admonition, they claim, especially when people conspire to lie about the event. Please open the Triglotta to the Large Catechism, Eighth Commandment. What's that horrible cracking sound? It's from never being opened before.
The ELS did exactly the same thing with Erling Teigen and the Roman Catholic bishop, only the entire faculty of The Little Seminary on the Prairie participated, robed, in the joint Roman-Lutheran dedication service. Did anyone in the ELS or WELS have a problem with that? No, because Archbishop Weakland preached at Wisconsin Loose-Doctrine College. So WELS can taunt the ELS with the bishop while the ELS counters with "Archbishop! Ours wasn't even active, and he was straight, unlike Weakland." Who says the doctrinal boards accomplish nothing?
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "But I Thought Jeske Did Not Participate in a Union...":
It did not happen. Jeske withdrew after the item ran in the Watertown paper.
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GJ - Did he withdraw (if he did in fact withdraw) because it was in the paper or because he was covertly admonished by anonymous WELS pastors? The newspaper said nothing about his synodical membership, so who would have known?
Let us not step onto the thin ice of RSO status in Missouri and his LCMS speaking engagements (which are all "outside the framework of fellowship").
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Michael Schottey has left a new comment on your post "But I Thought Jeske Did Not Participate in a Union...":
Anon@ 6:00PM "It" did happen, whether "it" is preaching or "it" is agreeing to preach...something fishy happened then and something as fishy is about now.