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
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.