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To: lightman

What do you think will happen?


3 posted on 06/16/2010 6:48:23 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL
The Committee on Discipline will need to convene; the real question is whether this will constitute double jeopardy.

Some more background: Pr. Wenrich served as an Assistant to Bishop Guy S. Edmiston. During his tenure the Synod paid his tuition to become a certified paralegal since much of his Synod portfolio was negotiating severance agreements between clergy and congregations. So he is sharp as a tack when it comes to both ecclesial and civil law.

There has been an ironclad rule in the Lower Susquehanna Synod that an Interim Pastor was absolutely ineligible to be Called by the vacant congregation s/he was serving. That rule has frustrated many congregations, which have been very satisfied with their Interims. Strangely, as Pr. Wenrich was leaving the Synod staff, he served as Interim in Hummelstown and then was allowed to be Called as the regular Senior Pastor. All clergy are equal but some are more equal than other.

At any rate, I believe that that irregularity in the Call process over a decade ago may well have fueled a delusion that Pr. Wenrich was somehow “exceptional” and did not need to abide by the same rules as everyone else. A mistaken sense of “entitlement”, perhaps.

4 posted on 06/16/2010 6:58:05 PM PDT by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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