WELS pastor says he can't say who can preach?
'You know, I'm this close to saying "Amen" but some of you realize I haven't talked about this stuff. Like, but Pastor, what are the answers about, you know, who can preach and who can teach and what about Bible studies and you know, reading in church and serving communion and leading a life group and who can sing and who can have a solo and who can direct and who can be on the board or the council and who can have a vote? You know my answers to all those questions are? I don't know; I honestly don't know. 1 Corinthians 11 talks about head coverings and hairstyles; it does not talk about 21st century American church organizational charts and democratic decision making processes. So I don't know... [I]f I need to get my way on one of those questions or issues and I let go of love, we're not going to be okay.'
Transcript: https://timeofgrace-audio.s3.amazonaws.com/Transcripts-StudyGuides/791_transcript.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVaRTak5ut0&t=19m30s
Doug Leroy Horstman I went to MLC with Mike and I can say he'd make a good ELCA pastor.
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GJ - The apple does not fall far from the tree, but which tree does it fall from in Matthew 7?
Pastor Mike's mentor, Mark and Avoid Jeske, is a man for all synods, especially ELCA. He knows and lives the ancient Greek saying, "A chameleon can turn any color except white."
Pastor Mike's shuffle is dazzling and so modest - who is he to explain the Scriptures, especially the difficult parts?
Get your book and study guide the YouTube says - "Gay and God."
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| Like Starr and Brownie Schmitzer, Jeske is officially retired - but not before leaving a huge mess behind. |
I hate to promote the video, but it bears watching to see WELS falling falling down the stairs and yelling, "Wheee! This is fun!"
Pastor Mike is dressed in a shirt and slacks, better than Falwell the Second, with no indication of being a pastor. No cross. As Luther wrote, false teachers send themselves. He is the generic Jesus man for all people, Pharisaical in his inoffensive stance.
"If we can EMBRACE THE MIDDLE!" - Pastor Mike
The apostates have embraced the middle so persistently, they find themselves in bed with ELCA.
Pastor Mike's grand example is having a two-hour talk with a young lady who has questions about women usurping authority over men and teaching men. That is the actual Scriptural passage in 1 Timothy. I was at Notre Dame when Roman Catholic women were getting PhDs in feminist theology. The echoes are similar, but I heard the arguments from women, not men.
On the FB discussion page, one member of St. Peter-CORE argued the feminist position endlessly. That was another echo from the past. The senior pastor, Tim Glende, grew up in a church that promoted Church Growth, that did not join WELS, and that placed women in authority over men and had them teaching men. When I brought up women teaching men at a WELS conference, I was a horrible sinner because I mentioned the congregation's name - St. Paul, German Village, always reaching
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| As one ex-WELS member wrote me, "WELS is not an abusive sect, but an abusive cult." |
