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| Andy Stanley stood stunned as Ski posed like an Elvis fan. Andy's father, Charles Stanley, flew to Korea to learn from Cho. Andy was thrilled by Hybels, or was Hybels saying "Hi, Belles!" while chasing them for 40 years. |
Andy Stanley Says Insisting on Biblical Inerrancy is an ‘Unnecessary Obstacle’ for Believers + Compares it to Judaizers Insisting on Circumcision
If we go back a few years, the notorious WELS pastor, known as Ski, had been rescued from Mark Jeske's tax-enhanced church. Ski was so popular that he got two calls at the same time but went to Tim Glende's church in Appleton, Wisconsin. Tim had closed two parishes in the same Illinois town, but he was miraculously promoted to senior pastor of a huge Wisconsin congregation. "Thanks, Uncle Brug!"
In Illinois, Tim left behind a thriving Eastern Orthodox church and fast-growing Baptist church, but only a wisp of his first call, which may still exist today - in name only.
Ski got to pretend he had a church when Glende started a branch named The CORE, with Bishop Katie doing much of the work, until she quit suddenly. Katie and Ski had worked together under Jeske.
In the meantime, the Trio of Glende, Ski, and Kati went to a bunch of Church Growth Extravaganzas, including Andy Stanley's money-making summer camp.
"But Andy is a Babtist! That can't be!" - WELS chorus. They are "in fellowship" with everyone who is not a Lutheran.
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| Andy, who always struck me as very sad, got way ahead of the gay movement among Babtists. One Babtist minister refused to believe this happened, and became angry that I sent the graphic to him after he demanded proof. |
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| DP Don Patterson is so with it that he had bunnies for kids to pet on Easter Sunday, then hid the promotion about petting bunnies the next Easter. He is smoother than a frozen lemon yogurt shake and almost as sweet. He and Paul Kelm presented papers to the Mequon faculty on how to improve GA hazing's sado-masochism - and the numbers went down even more. None dare call it Mordor. |
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| The WELS Andy-groupies photographed their exciting worship at Stanley's money-making summer camp. Around 8 WELSians came to it, Bishop Katie gushed. Ski was inspired to create a blog about how wonderful it was. And that is OK, because the future District President took his gang to even bigger pan-denominational thrill-fests. |
WELS is not Lutheran and definitely not conservative. They are reactionary, attaching themselves to every confession of faith except the Book of Concord. They are as thirsty for success as they are for hard likker. They are as attracted to fads as night-time bugs to porch lights.
Ski was so successful at The CORE that they replaced him fairly soon and sent him down to Texas, to a place where the previous pastor was promoted to the portable Asian mini-seminary.
