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When I began this blog, ELCA had enough cash to put out press releases fairly often. Since then, the need to find more information about this catastrophe has diminished - and so has the denomination's cash for everything, including seminaries.
Exposing the ELCA is a great time-saver for those who want to discover the latest about this gathering of the worst ideas, the most incompetent leaders, and the most bizarre behavior.
The website is carefully researched and sensible.
I left the ELCA before the merger, but found the LCMS-WELS-ELS too eager to mock the radicals while inviting them for lectures, meetings, evangelism, and joint worship.
Lo, the Demons Merge
I have attended various Church Growth gatherings, listening carefully to their messages - which are never sermons. WELS pastors remember P-boy, who loved to talk about his nose and other body parts, everything about himself.
I went to a big gathering of cell groups in Columbus, where the speaker gave a one-hour talk, never mentioning God until the 45 minute mark. (I kept track.) He talked about himself, and the audience cooed and giggled.
At the ELCA, then LCMC Church of Joy, the senior pastor (Fuller D.Min.) spoke about his musical ability, his Hawaiian shirt, then transitioned to his "birthday suit." The audience was with him for his non-sermon.
And now we have ELCA's Nadia, exquisitely boring, because she is another Growther. All her talks are about Nadia. Her radical fans want everyone to cry about the United Methodists remaining traditional, as if their 2% should rule over the 98% forever. Yes, that is roughly the gay population - 2%. But that is far beyond Nadia's scope, since she sticks to what she knows - or pretends to know - Nadia.
I wonder - given the weeping and gnashing of sensitive, triggered teeth about their issues only - how many people are attracted to the ELCA seminaries, ELCA missions, and ELCA publications? The answers seem to be - precious few.
This should be a cautionary tale. So many are trained by Fuller Seminary and even more ridiculous Willow Creek, that this sappy me-talk has taken over and replaced the sermon with Mirror, Mirror, On the Way, Who's the Most Narcissistic of All?
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