ELCA NEWS SERVICE
June 15, 2010
ELCA Welcomes Dialogue, Consultation with RCA, Reformed Church Partners
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CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The ELCA welcomes dialogue with the Reformed Church in America (RCA) and a consultation involving church partners who are part of the 1997 Formula of Agreement, a full-communion relationship of the ELCA, RCA, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Church of Christ, said the Rev. Donald J. McCoid, executive, ELCA Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations. Delegates to the 2010 RCA General Synod requested the dialogue to discuss the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly actions on human sexuality and the consultation to discuss matters related to Scripture.
The RCA General Synod, the church's highest legislative authority, is meeting June 10-15 on the campus of Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa. McCoid and the Rev. Roger A. Willer, director for studies, ELCA Church in Society, attended the RCA meeting.
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GJ - The soi-disant Confessional Lutherans cannot point their fingers at ELCA unless they wash their nasty little hands first.
There is a lot of washing to do, too.
Those synods would have to eliminate their generic labels, whoopee worship, feminist creeds, praise bands, felt needs, marketing, and using Satan for evangelism.
They would have to stop teaching Reformed doctrine at Mequon, St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Mankato, and the portable seminaries of the micro-mini sects.
They would have to admit that they have all been promoting false teachers while punishing faithful leaders.
They would have to change the required readings lists at their schools.
They would have to repudiate false doctrine.
They would have to replace all the offering money skimmed to pay for tuition at Fuller Seminary, Trinity in Deerfield, Willow Creek, Granger, Exponential, Catalyst, Dirt, Drive, and many other swindles mounted for the gullible synod leaders.
And that will not happen. But the tongues will cluck, piously. "ELCA is so evil."
ELCA and the Syn Conference boys agree about doctrine, from UOJ to wild-hair unionism. The difference is that ELCA is honest.
