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| Just remember - these three apostates love working with ELCA via Thrivent: Matt the Fatt, Mirthless Mark, and Pope John the Malefactor. Mark and Avoid Jeske stirs the Thrivent brew with ELCA lady pastors and demonic laughter. He misspells the name of his ELCA-WELS-LCMS conferences, which should read - Change and Die! |
ELCA HITS BOTTOM
Below are some sections. Please read the entire article carefully, because the author had a long teaching career with the LCA and finally left ELCA in 2010 to be part of the NALC.
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| This happened at the church where the meetings were taking place, after the key vote that caused Benne to leave ELCA. In CN, I wrote about this debacle already developing in 1987. |
"We left after the cataclysmic ELCA assembly of 2009 accepted the blessing of gay unions (which quickly became the acceptance of gay marriage), the ordination of “married” gays, and a social statement on sexuality that was ambivalent about the institution of marriage and the place of sexual relations within it. (The last item was accompanied by a rogue tornado that knocked off the steeple of a nearby ELCA church!)"
"Whatever doubts I had were extinguished by recent events in the ELCA. The glaring departure from classic Christian teaching is so stunning it is scarcely believable. At the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering held in Houston in late June, 31,000 youngsters of high school age listened to the most radical speakers the ELCA could possibly put forward. The prime keynoter was Nadia Bolz-Weber, the tattooed and feisty founding pastor of an ELCA congregation called House for All Sinners and Saints. She has risen to become the featured celebrity of the ELCA and darling of progressive elites from NPR to the BBC."
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| Diversity is only good and blessed when it is selective. |
"These two keynoters not only reject traditional Christian notions of sexual identity; they also challenge classic teachings on sexual morality. Both signed a petition that was concocted by an organization called “Naked and Unashamed” (I’m not making this up) based at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, where I (blushingly) taught for seventeen years. The petition calls for the ELCA to stop “privileging marriage as the only acceptable form of sexual relationality” and to start “editing out language that perpetuates heteronormativity and sexual oppression” from its guiding documents. Fortunately, neither spoke about their notions of sexual morality to the hormone-driven teenagers who cheered them on. Needless to say, both support Planned Parenthood and a woman’s “right to choose.”
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| ELCA seminary student, Luther, Anders Nelson,lip-synched his heart out in the chapel. |
"A third set of keynoters was a mother and her eleven-year-old child, the latter having “transitioned” from boy to girl. The mother, an ELCA pastor’s wife, opined that her child, though biologically a boy, “deeply knows herself to be a girl.” “She wasn’t a boy; we just didn’t know that yet.” The child’s congregation had a renaming ceremony on the tenth anniversary of “her” baptism, bestowing the name “Rebekah.”
"Then Rebekah spoke to the teens: “Being transgender is about being who God made me to be. God does not make mistakes. . . ."
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| An ELCA professor of Confessional Theology was fast-tracked into the pastorate so he could be the first married bishop, like the disaster in The Episcopal Church USA that ended in divorce. |
GJ - My message to everyone who was silent or abusive when I left the LCA before its doomed merger - I told you so. I published about it with all the sources in 1987. WELS was openly hostile about my little effort, so I published it in Christian News.
Later I wrote a series of articles for CN that Otten suggested for NPH:
The book sold very well and went into three editions, but NPH pulled the title and gave me permission to reprint it. Valleskey no lika - in fact, there was a big fight to keep it from being printed in the first place.
The message of the Fourth Gospel is this - If we believe, then we also witness to the truth, no matter what.
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| Amazon printed the book, but it is better to order it from me at the author's price. |
