Lutheran World Missions - When You Care Enough To Send the Very Best Baptist

 What should really chap some hides is
how much is spent on how little.

Bethany is 100% political, which can be observed from 100% of the full-time faculty coming from a father and son. That might remind some of Bob Jones University, with a succession of Bob Jones (I, II, III) and John Brown University (JB I, II, III) and Ecclesia College (Oren Paris I, II, III). Not one of those institutions is noted for its academics.

Lawrenz anointed Witte,
Brandeis U. versus Gordon Conwell Seminary.

Bethany has its lectures, which they have now named after one of its few scholars, Bjarne Teigen, who was trashed by WELS and shunned by the ELS for showing how wrong they were about Receptionism.

Teigen showed their heresy to them in his book on the Lord's Supper.

The Asian Mini-Seminary is staffed with jokers:

• Michael Smith - Trinity in Indiana, with Baptist and Presby professors. Unaccredited.
• Dimm Steve Witte - Gordon Conwell Babtist Seminary.
• Dimm Matt Doebler - Gordon Conwell Babtist Seminary.

So why is WELS spending so much money to send non-Lutherans over to teach Asians about Church Growth.

WELS Doctrinal Discipline on Display

Pat the Bunny -  Easter rabbit evangelist -
got a call to the Asian mini-seminary,
plus a drive-by DMin degree.
Ski occupied the vacancy 10 seconds later.

WELS relatives love a Synod President
who protects their foolish kin.

In one graphic - Mrs Adam Mueller, the cross-dresser,
Lawrence Otto Olson, DMin, Fuller Seminary,
and Jeff Gunn, the pastor Jon Buchholz was going to oust
after studying the matter for several years more.

Pat the Bunny Plagiarist Matt Doebler, WELS - To Asian Seminary. "We Are Becoming More Confessional"

"You thought we hit rock bottom in Asia with Lawrenz and Witte?
No way!"

    Doebler, Rev Matthew D     East Asia Administrative Committee   12/03/2013
         Professor, Asia Lutheran Seminary

Doebler got a $20,000 grant for this?



Are WELS congregations in Texas so devoid of the Gospel that they need live bunnies and an Easter egg hunt to draw visitors?

Kudu Don Patterson did this last year, so I borrowed the bunny photo and replaced Dom Perignon's face with Doebler's.

WELS Church Lady says Doebler is confessional. If Doebler is a confessional Lutheran pastor, then Glaeske is a conservative DP.

For all you missionaries looking for a call, any call, and all the congregations and schools that are out of money - rent a bunny suit. The grant-givers love a touch of fleece.

I am sure the ELS and WELS boards of doctrine will jump on this like hobos on a hotdog.

Search Easter egg hunts in WELS.

Search Easter egg hunt in the LCMS.



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"We rejoice where God has brought us and look forward to where God is taking us for 2009 and beyond."Audio here.


Part 1 - Long illustration about Pastor Matt being sick and taking Nyquil. A real nail-biter. 

Part 2 - More about Matt Doebler being ill and anxious.

Part 3 - Paul and Thessalonica.

Part 4 - Rock and Roll Church is three years old. Make it or break it time. Lost some major WELS synodical grants. Hoping for some other grants. [GJ - Church and Chicanery teaches its disciples how to eat high on the hog.]

Part 5 - Typical statistics about the unchurched in Round Rock, Texas. Assumes that people who do not go to church "have no relationship to Jesus Christ." [GJ - Maybe they are sick of apostasy from the pulpit, marketing the Gospel, and rock-n-roll seeker services.]

Part 6 - Calls Law and Gospel "theological mumbo-jumbo." Members are "filled with the Holy Spirit." Some baptisms coming up. Praising members up and down, especially for setting up and taking down [GJ - routine for most mission churches].

Part 7 - Pastor Matt is "totally excited about the new year." "God is working here, guys." [GJ - I am interested in these awesome new liturgical words. Grace, mercy, and peace, guys. I totally like it.]

Part 8 - Paul enters the sermon again. Briefly. "God wants grace to come to this community." Does a little voice quaver, which is popular among the Reformed. 

Part 9 - Typical Church Growth section about outreach, Law-based. Everyone has to reach out and "love our community." Get on a ministry team. Sunday is not "just about us." Focus on the guests. Love them. This may be our only chance. [GJ - I would feel like a guest at a Herbal Life sales meeting.]

Part 10 - Hamburger joint section. "All about the experience." "How many have been to Mighty Fine Burger? They want you to have an experience." Oh, Oh, Matt just discovered another Church Growth principle - We should emulate Mighty Fine Burger. More Law - we have to show how great things are for us. We have to represent God and say we are "mighty fine."

Part 11 - Goals. Call a worship leader. What is Matt? Go to multi-site (GJ - which is the Mars Hill and the North Point model). $210,000 grant to Antioch request. Decide by January 10th. That is a "huge, huge deal." We need a worship coordinator.

Start two to three sites by the end of 2009. "Someone donated, like, three computers." 

Small groups. Four non-church people for every Rock member. "It's time to draw the line in the sand. This is the point."

"We have to step it up."

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GJ - I do not know what this Antioch grant thing is. A doctor of divinity found an Antioch Foundation in La Crosse, Wisconsin, giving grants to WELS.

There are many overlapping Emerging Church, Becoming Missional, and Church Growth businesses known to all the Church and Chicanery pastors. C and C pastors drop names and jargon which go right over most people's heads. Only the insiders understand. Suffice it to say, the epicenters of learning are still Fuller Seminary and Willow Creek Community Church. The Enthusiasts to emulate are Mars Hill, North Point, and a few others.




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Tuesday, May 19, 2009




Doebler - District Popes Approve Rock and Roll, Copy and Paste Lutheran Church








Why are WELS sermons so Calvinistic?
Answer: They are Kelmed.
Matt Doebler's sermon:

Hasnt Christianity been an Agent of Oppression hypocrisy, Jesus Christ, oppression, church.

This sermon and more from Presbyterian minister Tim Keller can be found here:

Right-click "Download" and select 'save target/link as' to listen to sermons related to Tim Keller's book The Reason for God from the series The Trouble with Christianity: Why it's so Hard to Believe it.
Exclusivity: How can there be just one true religion? 1 John 4:1-10 Download
Suffering: If God is good, why is there so much evil in the world? 1 Peter 1:3-12 Download
Absolutism: Don't we all have to find truth for ourselves? Galatians 2:4-16 Download
Injustice: Hasn't Christianity been an instrument for oppression? James 2:1-17 Download
Hell: Isn't the God of Christianity an angry Judge? Luke 16:19-31 Download
Doubt: What should I do with my doubts? (AM) John 20:1-18 Download
Literalism: Isn't the Bible historically unreliable and regressive? (AM) Luke 1:1-4; 24:13-32

Doebler Sermons:
Dont we all have to find truth for ourselves?
Matt Doebler
05-03-2009
4 listens

How can there be only one true religion?
Matt Doebler
04-19-2009
9 listens

Open the Gates for the King of Glory!
Matt Doebler
04-05-2009
7 listens

The Rebel's Guide to Joy in Poverty (another borrowed series - Mark Driscoll)
Matt Doebler
03-15-2009
30 listens

The Rebel's Guide to Joy in Exhaustion
Matt Doebler
03-01-2009
18 listens

The Rebel's Guide to Joy in Temptation
Matt Doebler
02-15-2009
20 listens

The Rebels Guide to Joy in Death
Matt Doebler
02-01-2009
25 listens

The Rebels Guide to Joy in Loneliness
Matt Doebler
01-18-2009
16 listens

The State of the Church 2009
Matt Doebler
01-04-2009
56 listens

The Hero Follows Through
Matt Doebler
12-21-2008
11 listens

The Hero Delivers
Matt Doebler
12-07-2008
14 listens

The Hero Sacrifices
Jim Radloff11-23-2008
15 listens

The Hero Heals
Matt Doebler
11-09-2008
24 listens
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Doebler - District Popes Approve Rock and Roll, Co...": 

One day the light bulb will come on at the Sausage Factory with the answer: WELS central will prepare all the sermons, and email them out to the local pastors. Of course, the local pastors will gladly pay several thousand dollars of offerings each year for the service. 

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GJ - I heard there was a sermon service from The Love Shack. I cannot verify it. At one meeting I suggested shutting down Perish Services and getting everything from Fuller Seminary - direct, instead of filtered. Shocked laughter followed.

Church and Changer Don Patterson Fits the MBO Template. So Does Matt Doebler

LutherRocks has left a new comment on your post "Guess Who Published This? - Last Century. MBO and ...":

Thanks for posting. So much still applies.

I remember on more than one occasion Doebler talking about all the church plants he was planning in Central Texas...or the goals of Don Patterson. If he wasn't getting through to his leadership he would pound them. Of course when that didn't work there was the 'heart patient' card to play...all the while eating his pepperoni and cheese pizza...

The article also reminded me of Cornerstone's visit. They had the formula all planned out based on the 'giving units' of the congregation. Can you say cold and calculating???

Chad White went with Kudu Don Patterson and others
to the Exponential Pan-Denominational Praise Fest,
Orlando, Florida.
Did anyone excommunicate them.