President Gerald Kieschnick's Letter to Doctor Waldo
Werning
Redeemer Voters Want to Hear Werning's New Doctrine of
the Trinity
President Gerald Kieschnick's Letter to Doctor
Waldo Werning
After pummeling the officers of Redeemer Lutheran Church in St. Clair
Shores, MI with more the 60 pages of letters for the past 6 months attacking
their pastor, Dr. Waldo Werning has not replied to the congregation's request
for a meeting with its Voters' Assembly. Werning has also been sending letters
to the LCMS President.
The following is President Gerald Kieschnick's reply to Doctor Werning.
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
International Center
1333 South Kirkwood Road
Saint Louis, MO 63122-7295
(314) 965-9917, ext 1402
FAX (314) 996-1119
Office of the President
The Reverend Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick
President of the Synod
November 28, 2001
Dr. Waldo Werning
Discipling Stewardship Center
111 AF Oakton
Pewaukee WI 53072
Dear Doctor Werning:
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
I am in receipt of your letters of October 5, 15, and 26, 2001. From the
documentation that you have provided, it would appear that President Hoesman's
encouragement to meet with Pastor Cascione in informal dispute resolution is
indeed the appropriate course of action. Should informal means of dispute
resolution prove ineffective, I encourage you to pursue a formal means of
dispute resolution as outlined in Chapter VIII of the Bylaws if the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod.
Since you have neither involved yourself in informal means of
reconciliation, as encouraged by President Hoesman, nor have you complied with
Chapter VIII of the Bylaws, it is inappropriate to address your concerns to
the President of the Synod or the Praesidium at this time.
I pray God's riches blessing upon both you and Pastor Cascione as you
address this very important matter.
Warmly and Sincerely,
In Christian Love,
Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick,
President The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
C: President William Hoesman
Dr. Raymond Hartwig
Pastor Jack Cascione - Redeemer St. Clair Shores Michigan
GBK/ljb
Redeemer Voters Want to Hear Werning's New
Doctrine of the Trinity
The resolution adopted unanimously by the Voters of Redeemer Lutheran
Church to meet with Dr. Werning was published in an earlier release by Reclaim
News. The Voters of Redeemer Lutheran Church have invited Dr. Werning to bring
all of the LCMS Clergy he can find who will verbally support Werning's new
teaching about the Holy Trinity on pages 33-34 of his new book "Healing
and Health For the LCMS." The Voters want to videotape Werning and these
LCMS pastors as the defend this new doctrine and distribute it to the LCMS.
Other congregations should learn what the new doctrine of the Trinity is in
the LCMS endorsed by "Jesus First."
The final authority on doctrine in the LCMS is the Voters' Assemblies of
the LCMS Congregations.
Werning has a new "three" in God in addition to three divine
persons in one divine being. Werning teaches that God is also three
revelations, three experiences, and three forms of communication. According to
the Athanasian Creed, this teaching is damnable heresy and the lay people who
actually believe this will lose their salvation.
"Jesus First" wrote a glowing review about Werning's book before
the 2001 Convention. We pray that the members of the Board of Directors of
"Jesus First," including Rev. Charles Mueller Jr., will come and
defend Werning's teaching about the Trinity on pages 33-34 to the Voters' of
Redeemer Lutheran Church.
If Werning is correct, the LCMS has never really known what true
Christianity was until he wrote his book.
The annual loss of tens of thousands of lay people from the LCMS will only
continue as we see the Doctrine of the Trinity being treated by the LCMS
President as a private matter between two pastors in Dispute Resolution.
The public is also learning that the LCMS President has difficulty
distinguishing between a "civic event" and a gathering that calls
itself a "prayer service." Picking over procedures and politics is
preempting God in the LCMS. Rather, why can't we all read a public statement
from Atlantic District President David Benke saying that he believes that
faith in Christ is the only way to heaven and all others religions will face
eternal damnation?
This is the greater issue that Kieschnick is avoiding with both Werning and
Benke, namely "Who is the only God?"
The red ink of the Church Growth Movement is starting to look like the
Nasdaq dot.com stocks. All through the 90's the majority of Synod's COP,
including President Kieshnick, was enamored with the Leadership Net Work, PLI,
Leadership Training and corporate congregational structure. They could not see
that the "staff-led" church would inevitably go broke because of
rising salary costs. The Synod will continue to bleed tens of thousands of
members until it once again decides that the most important thing it can do is
teach correctly about "Who is the only God?" This responsibility may
ultimately rest in the decision of the Redeemer Lutheran Church Voters'
Assembly.
If Werning will not retract his false statements about the Trinity, he
cannot possibly have salvation nor any clergy who support him.
The reader can be certain that the LCMS bureaucracy will find some
procedure to get around the truth.