ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson dons his bright episcopal apparel.
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
I didn't say it.
ELCA elites on wrong road
By: Les Ristinen, Frazee, Minn.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elites have apparently determined that social and lifestyle policies that contradict Scripture are not congregational voting issues. It is in print that the ELCA spent $1.15 million on the sexuality studies but did not allow congregations to determine if such a study was necessary or valid. Nor did ELCA hierarchy allow congregations to vote on the issue of accepting Biblical sinful lifestyles.
Congregational donations are intended for God’s work. Our funding is meant for spreading God’s word, not to study ways to subvert Scripture to accommodate sinful lifestyles. We can only guess what future nonconforming issues are on the ELCA elitist agenda.
Alternatives to the ELCA have emerged. They truly promote healthy marriage, family culture, religious and personal responsibility. Lutheran CORE (Coalition for Renewal) has taken action to create a new resource Lutheran body that is not committed to “lifestyle over Scripture.” Another Lutheran spiritual leader is Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ, which accepts continued ELCA membership while faithful to God’s Word.
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Wasn’t the issue of scriptural inerrancy the cause for so many problems within the ELCA. Do many ELCA church members realize that CORE and LCMC are, theologically speaking, the ELCA minus gay clergy. If they knew, then would many hopeful ELCA churchgoers still be eager to join CORE or LCMC?
Reject organized religion? And how many people have the self-discipline to read, study, pray, and sing God's word on their own, alone in their own home, every week.
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GJ - Denial of the Word--authority, sufficiency, clarity, efficacy, and inerrancy--made straight the highway for man's philosophy du jour.
The first battle lost was over the original text of the Bible. Once they made people uncertain about the text of the Scriptures, the best preserved of all ancient books, they moved on to other areas.
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Church leadership like a fish rots from the head on down.
"It is in print that the ELCA spent $1.15 million on the sexuality studies but did not allow congregations to determine if such a study was necessary or valid."
What did Jesus say?
There is only one correct alternative. Reject all organized religion and instead cling to the Bible.
Wasn’t the issue of scriptural inerrancy the cause for so many problems within the ELCA. Do many ELCA church members realize that CORE and LCMC are, theologically speaking, the ELCA minus gay clergy. If they knew, then would many hopeful ELCA churchgoers still be eager to join CORE or LCMC?
Reject organized religion? And how many people have the self-discipline to read, study, pray, and sing God's word on their own, alone in their own home, every week.
"There is only one correct alternative. Reject all organized religion and instead cling to the Bible."
Or the BOC...
It is much more important to hear the truth in the Word of God than participate in a sham religion.
"Once they made people uncertain about the text of the Scriptures, the best preserved of all ancient books, ...."
What nonsense! Best preserved does not necessitate that inerrancy was preserved in the RCC.
The only alternative to organized religion is disorganized religion.
In the midwest, the ELCA gay issue has resulted in new members for several WELS churches. I know of one church were 20 ELCA members are in Adult Membership Classes, another where six ELCA family have become WELS members and others following, and several other similar situations.
These ELCA people are not looking for "cutting edge" ministries. They are looking for Word and Sacrament and a fellowship of like-minded believers.
If WELS would quit shooting itself in the foot, it would be growing in membership. It is amazing how long it takes for German people to realize that shooting themselves in the foot hurts.
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