Mark and Avoid Jeske is just what ELCA needs as an enabler. His posse of WELS millionaires keeps him safe from the consequences of his vast betrayals. Jeske is equal or superior to Synod Presidents because he works with all synods - ELCA-WELS-LCMS - not wasting time with little sects. He can gather money more efficiently from big sects. Key to characters on the bus to perdition, left to right: WELS DP who kicked out St. John's and helped steal it back, Broken Angel - notorious ex-DP of the Anything Goes District, Ski, Jeske, Gausewitz thrown under the bus. |
The LCMS-WELS-ELS-Little Sects are far worse than ELCA, because they stand back and murmur that their big, failing sister synod is so bad, so radical. They act as if God thanks them for preserving the truth, when their trotters are in the same pig trough, grunting and squealing for some more Thrivent grants.
Lutherans feed Thrivent with their insurance and investment dollars, excited to get some of it back in the form of lavish grants to the leaders who betray them on a daily basis. Matt the Fatt allowed that Missouri got $50 to $60 million a year from Thivent. As we say about the Arkansas football coach - $3 million a year and he still loses! They get enormous sums, which only grease the skids of their downward plunging sleds.
Where are your synod leaders this winter? They are wintering in the Caribbean at luxury resorts, courtesy of Thrivent. Missouri does it; WELS does it; ELCA does it. They plan together too, which is costly and cumbersome, but so worth it for giant grants.
No one wants to bell the cat, because they all want to be cool cats spending those grants.