Readers' Comments

Thank you for your website! It has been very valuable and helped many at my former church. I left an ELCA church. The pastor is somewhat liberal in his theological perspective but the community is conservative. The pastor would not allow any discussion regarding the August decision and tried to keep it a secret. Many of my fellow church members have never heard the term "ELCA" and just think they are "Lutheran." Your trifold phamplet should pose the question, "What kind of Lutheran are you?" Nine families have left our church.We have taken a stand for Biblical truth and as a result we have been rejected,and even slandered. We have lost friends who have been told by the pastor to treat the situation "Like a divorce." It is sad but I take comfort in the Lord's words, "Take up your cross and follow me." Our loyalty is to the Lord first and that supercedes any affection or alliegence to pastors, churches, or denominations. May the Lord call his faithful out of Egypt, to His honor and glory. - (Name withheld)

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this site and exposing the untruths of the ELCA. . . Again thank you for your ministry through this website. It is very good and most of all true. - Former ELCA pastor

I was reading the ELCA global economic justice position. The ELCA supports the UN's human rights constitution. The problem with this is that slavery is wrong however the doctrine states that all people have a right to education, healthcare, home, food, and a job. If this were enacted it would turn the people that work and earn these things to slaves. The ELCA also pushes for a global judiciary (this is at the end). It is truly a Marxist point that the ELCA supports, because it is taking the position that government provides and not God and we do not have a right to the fruits of our labor. Am I wrong in reading that charity comes from the individual and not the government? Did Jesus say to give out money to Herod and let Herod provide and distribute the wealth equally? This is the ELCA's position. - Dawn Weaver

Dan, Thank you for the work you are doing. I pray that God will continue to use you and this ministry. The ELCA has put out a self proclamation that they are an EMERGENT CHURCH in a small "newspaper" SEEDS OF THE PARISH. I have yet to find anything Biblical being used in this movement. This is very serious. Please provide some information to the people who read your website as to the heresy that is being proclaimed. Thank you. - (Name withheld)

We had a meeting nearly a year ago with our Bishop and 9 former homosexuals. They told their stories of broken marriages and broken lives and a feeling of dissonance with God's plan for them. It was the first time our Bishop ever met a former homosexual. These men and women had heart warming stories of redemption and deliverance (there words) and of healing.

I'm told by our Bishop that at no time did the committee on human sexuality speak with someone who had left the homosexual lifestyle. They simply weren't interested. -
Tom C.

I am a former ELCA pastor, and left the church officially as of September 2009. The ELCA has lost it's footings, and as far as I am concerned, not Christian. I too would encourage people to leave dodge and join a Bible Teaching Chuch. - Pastor

Your web site has been an extremely valuable tool in our search for information and also as a look as to what others are doing. Please keep up the great work.

Regards, (name withheld)

thank you for the work you do on this blog - i check it daily

Jason

You guys are always welcome to come home to Rome. :)

In the Lord Jesus,
Tony

Hi, we are in the midst of a tough battle to vote out of the ELCA and have already joined LCMC. Love your website. . . - (Name withheld)