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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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Alternatives to ELCA":
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.
