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Reclaim News
received the following report from Doctor Anne Driessnack who attended the
Daystar Conference at
Chesterfield
,
MO
on January 11-13.
Not all in
attendance were in agreement with the Daystar agenda and speakers.
In attendance with Doctor Ann Driessnack were Grace Otten (Herman’s
wife), Linda Preus (wife of Daniel Preus First Vice President of the LCMS),
and Kathy Schulz (wife of Wallace Schulz, Second Vice President of the LCMS
and fired Lutheran Hour Speaker).
Ann Driessnack
writes:
“The
attendance for the Daystar meeting was light, and the ‘pull’ of the main
speaker, was not very effective. When
Dr. Benke spoke, perhaps 60-65 were present.
About 30-35 attended the sessions.
Jean Garton,
who is on the LCMS Board of Directors, attended, as did Ralph Bohlmann,
President Emeritus of the LCMS.
Bohlmann tried
to tell me that the Schwan Foundation money is drying up, which is not so,
and the general attitude toward the Schwan Foundation was antagonistic.
I asked for
permission to pass out a promotion for the stunning new
Schwan
Center
at
Trego
,
Wisconsin
, and was refused. I was
attempting to demonstrate how the Schwan Foundation is moving us into 2005,
but Daystar’s interest in the Mission Affirmation Statements are moving us
back to l965, when one of the Kretzmann brothers wrote them.
The entire
conference was taken up with titles from the six Mission Affirmation
Statements. Each title with the
word ‘Church’ in it is the title of one of the original Affirmation
Statements.
‘The Church
is God’s
Mission
’ Tom Zehnder
‘The Church
is Christ’s
Mission
to the World’ Yohannes Mengstead
‘The Church
is Christ’s
Mission
to the Church’ Donald Muchow
‘The Church
is Christ’s
Mission
to the Whole Society’ David Benke
‘God Bless
This Mess—Please’ Stephan Krueger
‘The Church
is God’s
Mission
to the Whole Person’ Marie Meyer
‘The
Whole
Church
is God’s
Mission
– Symposium’ Robert Schmidt,
Chris Reinke
‘Education
For Ministry’ Matt Becker
‘The
Ministries of Women’ Ruth Koch
The 1973 LCMS
Convention rejected the Mission Affirmation Statements, which were supported
by those who led the St. Louis Seminary Walkout in 1974.
The CTCR put
the Mission Affirmation Statements on the Synodical shelf in l978, but
Daystar wants to resurrect the old political issues instead of moving
forward. I’m sure, if they
could, Daystar would put John Tietjen back as President of the St. Louis
Seminary.
A woman served
the bread and wine to all at the Eucharist Service and the preacher; Stephen
Krueger poured invectives on conservatives during his sermon, to the point
that several scholars challenged him after the service.
I told Benke he
should not say the word ‘God.’ He
should say the Triune God because from his context we can’t tell if he is
talking about the Moslem god or the Christian God.
The content of
the presenters was light compared to the presenters and their content at the
recent Walther Conference at the St. Louis Seminary where the attendance was
five times as great. At least, I
was hoping for something that would hold my interest, whether I agreed or
disagreed, but it was all so boring. They
should change their name to Dullstar.
Needless to
say, several of us did not take communion.
The list of people sending their regrets for not attending was read,
and many of them were from the
St. Louis
area.
Fortunately a
number of these same individuals found their way to the Walther Conference
in November of 2003, and we look forward to joining with them again this
November.
Soli Deo
Gloria.”
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Reclaim
News is not surprised that Daystar would resurrect the six Mission
Affirmation Statements from the 60’s.
When Libs talk about “church;” congregational polity, lay
participation, and voter supremacy are the last things on their minds.
It is all about what they are going to do.
According
to “Eph
5: 26
: That he might sanctify and cleanse it [the church] with the washing of
water by the word” and
“Matthew
16:18
. . . upon this rock I will build
my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
The
Daystar Libs confuse the work of Christ and His Gospel with the Church He
came to save. Maybe Daystar
thinks they are the Church and therefore they are God, or at least stand as
leaders in the church in place of God.
Don’t
miss the next issue of Christian News. We
are told that Otten will have seven pages covering the Daystar meeting.
You can be sure that CN’s coverage will be more interesting than
what actually took place.
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