Research from a non-Lutheran visitor to the Stanley cult:
“The congregation of the Buckhead church, really knows how to party, every time we go on a retreat going to a bar is always on the itinerary” (Parker, 2013). [GJ - Doubtless this inspired the Glende/Ski bar ministry, which was supposedly aimed at coffee shops.]
“One thing that I find different about this huge church is that they do not have Sunday school” (Pearson, 2013)
“The praise band is very loud and it’s more like a rock concert and the entire sermon seemed more like a very weak, self help seminar” (Brown, 2013).
“I heard no theology or anything from the Bible until the last ten minutes of the three hour service, and overall the sermon was boring and had no substance” (Baker, 2013).
“Please don't go there expecting choir robes and a hymnal but more of a rock concert, and most disturbing to me was the fact that attendees’ never get to meet, greet or shake hands with the minister, all the services are pre-recorded on a huge screen” (Baker, 2013).
“Besides the fact that the congregation is watching the minister on a screen, he also takes several breaks, at which time the rock ban entertains the audience, sort of like watching church on television.” (Baker, 2013).
“This was the first church I have ever visited that had no alter (sic) call or communion on the first Sunday” (Lloyd, 2013).
“Honestly I have visited this church on four different occasions and I will never go again because on my last visit I realized that it is nothing more than a cult” (Lloyd, 2013).
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| Mark Schroeder and Keith Free had over $500,000 to give away to Ski and Glende to buy this bankrupt bar, but they refused to help the congregation in Illinois that Glende destroyed with his bullying. WELS will foreclose on the Savoy congregation soon, which was "redeveloped" so Glende could make it his Church Growth sandbox. But Glende evaporated before the new building was finished. |