Kieschnick Answers Werning:
Voters' Assembly Waits to Meet With Werning
By Rev. Jack Cascione

 

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.


Rev. Jack Cascione is pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church (LCMS - MI) in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. He has written numerous articles for Christian News and is the author of Reclaiming the Gospel in the LCMS: How to Keep Your Congregation Lutheran. He has also written a study on the Book of Revelation called In Search of the Biblical Order.
He can be reached by email at pastorcascione@juno.com.

December 6, 2001