The liberal United Methodists were among the first to adopt the Social Gospel Movement. They have also been activists in the pro-abortion and homosexual arenas. They do not teach the Real Presence, but ELCA is in altar fellowship with them anyway.
The Methodist representative spoke of love when he addressed the ELCA Assembly. Love transcends doctrine, they think. Love transforms people in vague ways. Love unites, but doctrine divides. Leonard Sweet is a United Methodist - his Chicanery followers in WELS think just like him.
ELCA is also in fellowship with the Moravians, founded by Zinzendorf, who strongly influenced Methodism.
David Preus, first cousin of Robert and Jack Preus, pushed The ALC into altar fellowship with the Reformed because James Crumley was ostentatiously cozying up to the Antichrist in Rome. ELCA added the all-religions-the-same United Church of Christ (Jeremiah Wright) to its list of ecumenical scalps.
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Friday, August 21, 2009
ELCA Now in Communion Fellowship with Methodists
