The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is on the attack.  And they will let nothing get in the way of their goal, a nation called Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital.  They are shameless.  The ELCA is now on the attack against Christians who care for and support Israel.  Presiding ELCA Bishop Mark Hanson says the support of Israel by Christians “ . . . is a dangerous and radical political movement.”   The ELCA has websites and brochures denouncing them.  The ELCA gathered with other like-minded mainline denominations, not to long ago, to find ways to combat these Christians.  

The ELCA's website highlights Rev. Munib Younan's, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jerusalem, thoughts on the matter.  He says, "I hereby declare that (the belief of Christians who support Israel) is not only a sick theology but it is a heresy. . ."  That's not all, the Bishop goes on to say this about these Christians, ". . . they are actually anti-Semitic."  This is all promoted on our ELCA's official website.

Make no mistake.  This is the ELCA view.  They are promoting anti-semitic statements against Christian supporters of Israel.  It is their voice and their position.

This is our church everyone. 

Let's really look at this.  Let's say there are two groups.  One group  1) loves the Jewish people, 2) supports the Israelis in word and deed, 3) promotes good relations between the governments and people, 4) takes vacations there, 5) prays for them, 6) financially supports the country and organizations with in it, 7) defends them when the vast majority of nations rain down hatred on them.

The other group (the ELCA) 1) calls on Israel to give up its land, 2) uses inflammatory language to support their anti-Israeli positions, 3) calls on Israel to give up half of it's capital, 4) not only gives up territory but wants them to give it to a people who violently attack them and claim Jews as their mortal enemies, 5) demands that Israel remove its protective border fence, 6) has a founder with a history of anti-semitic views, 7) has heavily considered doing no financial business with Israel, 8)  blames Israel for the reducing rate of Christians in the Palestinian controlled areas,  9) continues to give little credence to the violence perpetrated against the Israelis, 10) believe and teach that when the Bible says "Israel" and "Jerusalem" one should replace those words to read "Christians" and "church."

Which one of these groups would you pick as anti-semitic?

Group two is the perfect representation of the ELCA.  People of the ELCA, is this the Church you want to belong to?

 


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Glenn E. Chatfield link
01/18/2010 8:15am

Thank you for you excellent letter in the C.R. Gazette exposing the ELCA for what it is. I have done a couple articles on the ELCA also exposing it. You may find them of interest on my apologetics blog:

http://watchmansbagpipes.blogspot.com/2009/06/elca-another-apostate-denomination.html

http://watchmansbagpipes.blogspot.com/2009/08/leave-elca.html

http://watchmansbagpipes.blogspot.com/2009/12/elca-moving-from-apostate-to-heretical.html

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Erika
04/02/2010 9:44pm

Thanks for writing this. Just tonight, during Tenebrae service, I sat there appalled at what I was hearing. Repeatedly they said that Jews, Jews, Jews were to blame and that poor little Pontius Pilate tried his hardest (imagine that in a baby voice) to stop this crucifiction.

I got home and wrote to the pastor. My last sentence was that my husband and I are seriously considering leaving that church and the ELCA.

It's reassuring to read your post. I wasn't just making too much out of things.

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