Please take a few minutes to read this survey conducted by The Barna Group, in 2009, on what Christians believe. (read here)

Many Christian denominations in America are failing to teach the truth of scripture.  The study says almost 60% of “Christians” do not believe Satan is a real being?  Almost 40% think that Jesus sinned while on Earth? 

How does this happen?  The Bible is clear on Jesus being sinless and Satan being real, yet a lot of Christians think otherwise.  This happens when denominations and pastors are not teaching Scripture correctly.

Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. said, "We have the Bible and all of the Bible. We are accountable to it all, and it is all true, trustworthy, authoritative, sufficient, and, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, clear in its message."  Churches in America, including the ELCA, need to be teaching and preaching the truth of Scripture.  It is God's Word.

Sadly, this isn’t happening.  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s worldly teaching of Scripture, in their seminaries, leads their future pastors (many of them) to reject much of what the Bible says.  This has been happening gradually for over 20 years. Subsequently, the pastors, who are now serving congregations, will rarely uphold the truth of Scripture in the sermons they give. (But they sure know how to deliver some enlightening social justice and self-help sermons.) Through these tactics, the devil has silenced God’s Word and replaced it with damnable heresy.  
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Universal salvation, the view that all people will be saved, is taking over the ELCA as the prominent belief regarding salvation, thanks to the leadership of the denomination. (see here  and here)  This anti-Biblical, dangerous belief is thriving and leaders in the ELCA are not only doing nothing to stop it, but they are promoting it.  All at the expense of billions of souls.

Truth be told, there is no reason to be preaching and teaching universal salvation.  First and foremost, it goes against God’s truth revealed to us in the Bible (see here ).  Secondly, if it was true, a person would be saved no matter if he/she believed in universal salvation or not. 

We know that universal salvation is unfounded and false, yet the ELCA is promoting this belief.  The ramifications of this wrong teaching have eternal consequences.  1) Because those that believe this are not telling people about their need for our Savior.  2) People do and believe whatever they want because they think they are “saved know matter what.”  Sorry, but universal salvation in the gospel of Satan.

Sadly here is another ELCA leader preaching and teaching universal salvation.  Mark Thomsen, Visiting Professor of Mission, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC), writes,

“It would appear that if one takes Jesus seriously, faith in the finality of Christ necessarily includes the recognition of God's creative saving work outside of hearing and believing in Jesus Christ!”

“God's universal transforming work identified in the resurrection of Christ has saving significance for the whole of creation and the whole human family, not just for those who hear and respond to the gospel.”  (read here)

The universal salvation believing leaders have taken over the ELCA.  In our seminaries you have professors that teach pastors, who in turn, affect eternity for millions of people as well as future generations.  


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Would you tell a Christian, who also practices witchcraft, that

1) It isn't a sin.
2) It's okay to continue practicing it.
3) Even if it is a sin, it's not a big deal because we are saved by grace.

No.  Most Christians wouldn't say this.  They would encourage the person involved in witchcraft to turn from this sin.  

Persons involved in any sin, who have no desire to stop and repent, are in danger of bondage to sin and the devil.  

But the ELCA tells people struggling with homosexuality that 1) it isn't a sin, and 2) it is okay to continue practicing it.  Some ELCA people will say 3) even if it is a sin, it's not a big deal because we are saved by grace.
 
Encouraging people to stay in bondage to sin doesn't seem very "loving."  In fact, being in bondage to sin can cause spiritual darkness in one's life, as well as put one's eternal destination at risk.

God tells us to turn from sin because He loves us.  

The ELCA tells people struggling with homosexuality to keep sinning because, in all honesty, the ELCA has been deceived by the enemy.

Romans 6:20-22
When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

James 5:19-20
My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recently held an event called "Sharing the Gospel in a 2.0 World."   On day three of the conference Muslim and Buddhist prayers were giving at the invitation of the ELCA.  

Two students who were with a group called Interfaith Youth Core, and whose Muslim founder and executive director Eboo Patel (read here) was a keynote speaker for the "Sharing the Gospel" event, gave the Muslim and Buddhist prayers. 

Sue Rothmeyer, ELCA Associate Executive Director for Youth and Young Adult Ministries said, "out of hospitality we offered these students the opportunity to pray." Rothmeyer went on to say, "we carefully stated to (the assembly) it was out of the student's tradition and we invited everyone to listen and participate as they felt comfortable."

A conference attendee said of the prayers, "I think everyone in the room thought they were quite beautiful and appreciated people sharing something out of their faith traditions."

I have problems with the inclusiveness gospel the ELCA is preaching and conducting.  They sacrifice the Good News for the sake of trying to be accepting, tolerant and understanding.  The fact of the matter is, sharing the Good News is the most loving, kind and caring thing they could do.  But bringing people to the saving grace of Jesus doesn't matter to these ELCA leaders.

Now they have prayers, to false gods, given at their "Sharing the Gospel" ELCA event.  Jesus would NEVER allow that.  He would have been filled with holy anger if the prophets of Baal were in the temple leading people in prayers to their god.

Sadly the real Jesus doesn't matter in today's ELCA.  Satan has them rejecting the Bible and following his rules.  Then the ELCA cloaks everything they do in quasi-christian language and hope you don't notice. 
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In my last blog I asked the question, "How many times in the last 2 years have you heard your ELCA pastor explain, during a sermon, class or any time, how someone becomes a Christian?"
I know there are a lot of good, Bible-believing ELCA pastors who do not believe in Universal Salvation.  Thank God for them.  But the fact is, the ELCA seminaries are producing pastors every year and they are taught that all people are saved.  If you believe otherwise you're one of the minority in this denomination.  As the seminaries go, so goes the church.
But who cares?  Right?  Well, we all should.  This is a dangerous belief.  The pastors are playing with people's souls.  What if only those who have Jesus as their Lord and Savior are going to heaven?  (and that's true)  It means a lot of people are NOT going to heaven.  And the ELCA is responsible for those they didn't tell.  The enemy is winning here.  He has God's Church believing a lie and being silent.   I heard a stat that says the ELCA is sending out 60% less missionaries than they were 20 years ago.  I should be shocked, but the reality is, if the ELCA thinks everyone is saved anyway, why send out missionaries?
Universal Salvation is a lie and a huge risk.  Hell is a reality.  Nobody wishes their worst enemy be sent there.  The Bible says those that don't know Jesus will go there.  When ELCA pastors are taught to disregard the Bible, in so many ways, salvation in Jesus can be discarded too, because it feels better to say "everyone will be saved."  They say this even though there are hundreds of Bible verses about people going to hell.  I guess the Universal Salvation teaching seminaries disregard those verses too.
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Hello Pastors,

In light of the ELCA's decisions recently and our discussing it yesterday, I wanted so share a thought from the Experiencing God Day by Day devotional, Sept. 19 -

"It is Satan's practice to convince people that what God calls good is actually evil and what God declares evil is, in fact, good. . .(Satan) continues to deceive people into doubting what God has clearly said.
 
It is important to hold ourselves accountable to God's Word.  God does not need us to find exceptions for His commands.  He requires our obedience."

Isaiah 5:20 - Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Thanks!

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