You know that."
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie
And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.
Erdner parody link to YouTube - Don't worry, it's not one of those sleazy WELS videos.
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GJ - There are websites devoted to explaining each word of this song, which still earns the author about $200,000 a year.
People are pointing out how eerie it is to have one verse describing ELCA so well.
Bishop Mark Hanson began the Long March toward destroying ELCA as a local bishop, when he backed illegal ordinations. The Lavender Mafia backed him for ELCA bishop, and they love his work of dismantling all Biblical authority. WELS and Missouri work closely, covertly with ELCA in many different ways. "And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken."
When the big vote passed at the ELCA convention in 2009, lightning struck the steeple in a freak storm and knocked the cross loose. "The church bells all were broken."
The radical pro-homosexual AELC bunch (who left the LCMS) tried to eliminate the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit from the ELCA constitution -
"And the three men I admire most:
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost,"
That began the Exodus from ELCA. I left before the 1987 merger. Some ALC congregations left ELCA to start the LCMC, which was largely unnoticed until 2009. Then it took on about 350 congregations as people voted to leave ELCA with their property.
The West Coast of ELCA has been the worst part of the Lavender Mafia, so the largest congregations in California have left:
"They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died."
WELS acts hoity-toity about ELCA, but has its own gay video posted on YouTube and gladly works with ELCA. They just don't admit it.
"But not a word was spoken."
When I saw the picture above following the tornado that struck near the convention location of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the following words came to mind – “Built on the Rock the Church shall stand even when steeples are falling. Crumbled have spires in ev’ry land; Bells still are chiming and calling, calling the young and old to rest, but above all the soul distressed, longing for rest everlasting.” Sadly the ELCA has completely forsaken Christ the Rock as its foundation to settle on the shifting sands of secular society, and thereby has forsaken souls distressed by the guilt of sin. Years of forsaking Scripture for liberal theology, declarations of union with liberal church bodies, and recent endorsements of anti-Scriptural teaching and practice, in essence, have toppled the cross above their church body by calling evil good and good evil. The picture is therefore sadly descriptive of what has taken place in the ELCA.
