Before giving any further information simply read a message about
the LCMS off of the "Faith Inkubators News" website.
"Date: Nov 25 1998 18:11:01 EST From: Faith Inkubators News
<newsletter@faithink.com> Subject: Giving Thanks Hi from the FINK, (From Rich
Melheim) Happy Thanksgiving. I've just returned from two rather interesting weeks of
brainstorming and am filled with thanks for what I see happening around the church. Two
weeks ago I spent three days in St. Louis with 50 LCMS thinkers, educators and national
office folks looking at the future of family ministry. Jeff Schubert, the new family
ministry guru at LCMS headquarters, has a passion for pushing youth and family ministry to
the forefront of the agenda for congregations in the next years. Research just out shows
that only 7.5% of the 6000 LCMS congregations are intentionally focusing on building
healthy family ministry systems in congregations. Jeff is working to change that and is
happy to partner with FINK to help churches find life-giving systems. Power to him! Keep
Jeff, the LCMS educators and their work in your prayers...."
Who were the 50 LCMS educators, thinkers, and national office folk? I’m sure Jeff
Schubert knows. There is also no question that many LCMS District Presidents, those
paragons of honor, truth, and orthodoxy, are campaigning for Faith Inkubators across the
LCMS as the greatest thing since bubbles in beer. Yes, "Faith Inkubators" is
new, effective, easy to teach, even if it teaches heresy and false doctrine. You have to
be willing to make a few changes if you are a Synodical leader with vision to make the
church grow. Pray that God will rid the Synod of the COP or at least put them all back
into congregations.