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| Mark/Avoid Jeske is on the board of Thrivent, so he oversees the funding of ELCA, WELS, and LCMS. The Little Sect probably gets some leftovers. |
(I received this the other day. It's written by Pastor Tom Brock) -
Upon entering the main building a sign was up promoting a new book at Luther’s Bookstore, “Pastrix” by ELCA Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber. She was a favorite speaker at the ELCA Youth Assembly and a few months ago spoke at the historic Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis—using the “f” word in her speech. I flipped through her new book and she repeatedly uses the “f” word, referring to the 12 disciples as a “bunch of “f” ups”. Former ELCA Head Bishop Mark Hanson praises the book on the dustcover. Even more disturbing is that Bolz-Weber in a sermon on Christ the King Sunday denied that Christ died in our place to pay for our sins. To quote:
And just to be clear: The cross is not about God as divine child abuser sadly sending his little boy off to be killed because we were bad and well, somebody had to pay. Can someone deny the things of “first importance” as Paul puts it in I Corinthians 15:3, and still be a Christian? Yet she is a favorite speaker at ELCA events. This attack on Christ’s substitutionary atonement is also going on at the ELCA’s Wartburg Seminary. Professor of New Testament David Lull wrote this: " . . .I can’t get past the idea that God had a thirst for innocent blood that had to be quenched, or that God’s justice required a death-penalty for sinners until Jesus’ death satisfied God’s wrath. Even if Bible passages can be made to support these ideas, I can’t get past the idea that God had been unforgiving before Jesus died. That’s not the God I find in the Bible." “Even if” the Bible teaches it, Professor Lull rejects it. So now the day has come that the ELCA allows pastors and professors to deny the central teaching of the Christian faith: that sinless Jesus Christ died in our place to pay for our sins so that we could receive the forgiveness of God. Like I said, a very sad day walking through Luther Seminary.
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Thank God for steadfast shepherds like Lutheran pastor Tom Brock who, unlike their faithless ELCA counterparts, are faithful to preach and teach God's Word.
Pastor Brock writes on his website [ pastorsstudy.org ]: ". . . On October 20th, I will preach on Minneapolis TV a program entitled “God’s Three-fold Cure for America” (you can watch it on our website at pastorsstudy.org soon). In it I state that in my 60 years of life I have never seen America go downhill so fast as I have this past year. Then I preach on the three-fold cure from 2 Chronicles 7:14: 1. God’s people (the Church!) must humble itself 2. The Church must pray 3. We must turn from wickedness Then, and only then, does 2 Chronicles promise God will heal our land. Frankly, I see little at the moment that shows America is turning around. So I urge you: Would you please stop right now and take some time and pray for America? Please pray through the above list and pray that God would somehow step in and bring America (and the Church!) back to our senses. . . . May the Lord grant us Christians grace in these trying times to be vocal, not compromise, and to follow the Word and not the world, all to the glory of our Heavenly Father." In Jesus our Savior, Pastor Tom Brock
Chuck Braun
10/31/2013 07:32
If these liberal theologians and pastors no longer believed Lutheran Biblical Christianity, why couldn't they at least be honest and leave the ELCA for Unitarian Universalism, their true "faith"? Do they not see that the false doctrines they are putting into the minds of the congregations which they serve, are alarming to them and serve only to weaken their faith in the Scriptures which their leaders ostensibly swore to uphold? I guess fancy robes, fat paychecks and promotion of vulgarized apostasy are more important than the flocks which they are leading away from Jesus Christ to their doctrines of demons.
Do these people have no fear of God, Whose Son they will stand before at the Last Day? And having abused "the least of these My brethren", the people with whose souls they were entrusted, with whom will they be counted among? The sheep or the goats? As leaders of the Church, they will be held to a higher degree of accountability. Have these people no fear of eternal punishment? It is not my position to claim where they will spend eternity, but it is my earnest prayer that they would return to the Lord their God, for He is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. But they are far from God; we need to pray for their repentance. Quite often I let my righteous anger bleed over into hostility at the ELCA. But as there are still doubtlessly tens of thousands of ELCA members who truly trust Christ as their Savior and believe that He died and rose again for them, we must consider them our brothers and sisters in Christ, "the least of these", and lovingly confront them with the great spiritual peril which these false teachers are putting them in, rather than ridiculing and mocking them, lest we become "goats" ourselves.
Keith Wilson
10/31/2013 11:39
It is irrelevant why such a profligate group would not go associate with a "church" more in line with their beliefs/unbeliefs. These profligate unbelievers are parasites, feed off of any remaining moral capital that the Lutheran Church still might have. When the carcass is picked dry, they will move on to another body of believers to infest and feed off their heritage.
Gretchen Long
11/01/2013 16:50
I agree!
Jack Richards
11/01/2013 10:51
This, above all else, was the guiding force and drive for me to forsake the denomination that ordained me in 1977. Little could I have guessed that warm June morning that the Christ I promised to follow and proclaim...and "woe to me, if I did not preach it," would move to this cesspool of notions and heresies.
Rev. Jack Richards Everett, WA All Saints Day 2013
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