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(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and X - here.)
The New York Metropolitan Synod of the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has just elected Katrina Foster, an out lesbian, as bishop. I think that makes eight homosexual bishops now in the ELCA. You can see from her video below, she is about being radical and having sexual orientation diversity. Before 2009, if a pastor in the ELCA was a practicing homosexual, he or she would be disciplined and have to step down . Today, they are made a bishop in the ELCA. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom Brock ---- (Additional social media posts by the new ELCA bishop)
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ELCA Seminary Explores 'the role of trans joy, embodiment, and resistance in Christian life'4/28/2025
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is training up pastors for your church.
An ELCA article from 2014 gave us these statistics:
"The ELCA is still some 9,500 congregations with 3.95 million members. In the most recent year for which statistics are available (2012), we had 7,472 more baptisms than deaths, hopefully deflating comments about a dying church. Regular giving by members totaled nearly $1.8 billion while total receipts reached $2.45 billion. The total value of congregational properties and assets was $19.7 billion, with total indebtedness of $1.8 billion, or a respectable and very manageable 9.1 percent. And 64.18 percent of our congregations had no debt at all." (See here) The ELCA currently is stating they have "2.8 million members in more than 8,500 worshiping communities..." (See https://www.elca.org/news-and-events/pastoral-message-on-the-death-of-pope-francis) I would like to point out the how much money the ELCA brings in per year and the value of their properties and assets. (The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and X - here.) I graduated from Luther Seminary in St.Paul, Minnesota, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America way back in 1979. It was moderate to liberal back then, today it is radical with transgender preachers, prayers to God the Mother, a pagan smudging ceremony in chapel, observing National Coming Out Day and Transgender Day of Visibility in chapel, etc., etc. As you can see from the below, due to dwindling finances and attendance, half of my seminary is now gone. Someone told me recently that one of my old more moderate professors from Luther is not happy with what has happened to the seminary. But the same professor many years ago spoke to a packed house to give his view on homosexuality. By the end of the hour no one had a clue where he really stood He was part of the problem since he refused to take a stand, and now the seminary is reaping what it has sown. When I was still in the ELCA. I remember inquiring of Luther’s then president about the possibility of getting an intern from Luther. I was told that, because my church did not believe in women pastors, Luther would refuse to give us anyone as an intern. Luther loves to say that it is into diversity and inclusivity, well, it is not. If Luther Seminary does not repent, and I see no sign of that, it will probably be a good day for the Church when it is totally gone. In our risen Savior, Pastor Tom Brock  (The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and Elizabeth Eaton, head bishop of the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is once again taking a stand for transgenderism. Should the Church show Christ’s love to all people, regardless of their sin or confusion? Definitely. Should the Church use offering dollars to pay for hormone blockers to keep children from developing their God-given sexuality? Of course not. But the ELCA does this. The ELCA also pays for sex change operations for adults in its healthcare plan. Your offering dollars at work. In her below message, Eaton says “anti-trans legislation demonizes” transgender persons. No it doesn’t, it aims at protecting children from sexual mutilation. But Eaton says nothing of this.  And notice below, Eaton can’t bring herself to refer to people as “brothers and sisters in Christ“ anymore, that is too binary. It’s all “siblings in Christ“. This ELCA has gone so very far astray, if you are still a member, I hope you to take your money, time, and talents and join a more biblical denomination. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom Brock
(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.)
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I reported on this back in January. Their church sign is on a busy highway and states “God is proud of all Their children” (in gay rainbow colors). The sign is still up after six months.
God, of course, is called “He” in the Bible. When God in Genesis 1:26 says “Let Us make man in Our image”, this has various interpretations. Perhaps it is a reference to the Trinity or to God and His angels, but to suggest it has anything to do with transgenderism and to project that on to God is simply evil. I can’t help but wonder if virtue signaling is also going on, and this congregation is telling passers-by how enlightened and compassionate they think they are. But it is never compassionate to condone impenitent sin (I Corinthians 6:9-11). The church is a few minutes from my house and the tragedy is that years ago it had a godly, Bible-preaching pastor. But he is gone, the church stayed in the liberal ELCA, and the current pastor and church staff all list their preferred pronouns on the church website. Would that this church would respect God’s preferred pronoun. In Him, Pastor Tom Brock
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ELCA Lutheran congregation portrays the Holy Trinity as three women around a gay pride flag3/17/2025 (The following article was written a few days ago by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) Calvary Lutheran Church of Hauppauge, New York, is congregation of the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. If you tap on the link below, you will see the awful video they made for Ash Wednesday, displaying gay pride rainbows, and more. The staff of Calvary all list their pronouns at the church website. Especially grievous is that the website shows they have a picture on the altar of the Holy Trinity portrayed as three women gathering around a gay pride flag. The website says the pastor has marched in a pride parade and the church holds an annual LGBT pride worship service. Tragically, this is what the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has become. In Christ, Pastor Tom Brock https://www.facebook.com/polemicsunited/videos/858533963065176/ 
(The following article was written a few days ago by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.)
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent when Christians meditate upon the sufferings of Christ for 40 days before Easter. It is a season of repentance from sin and rededication to God. Many congregations put ashes on the forehead of worshipers to remind themselves that “You are dust and to dust you shall return.“
But the ultraliberal Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is making it about being queer. Instead of ashes, they are putting “glitter ash“ on participants’ foreheads because glitter “is an inextricable element of queer history.” Unbelievable, but being this is an ELCA seminary, believable. In Christ, Pastor Tom Brock PS. Below also is a picture of last summer’s ELCA Youth Gathering during which drag queens put glitter on the foreheads of Lutheran teens 
(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) Lent used to be the 40 days in the church year when we think upon Christ’s sufferings for our salvation, repent of our sins, and rededicate our lives to God. But this year, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has a new devotional for Lent: Dismantling white supremacy and privilege. The lengthy Lenten “devotional” is written by ELCA leaders and pastors who list their pronouns (one of whom is “they/them”) and includes some radical resources, including “womanist theology.“ One pastor describes herself as a “queer, black, disabled, fat, femme woman”.
The ELCA has also produced a Vacation Bible School curriculum for children entitled “At the Table” about overcoming world hunger. Of course, nothing is wrong with wanting to overcome world hunger and racism, but when such things replace the teaching that Jesus is the only Savior, no wonder so many in today’s Church are biblically illiterate. At its last national convention, the ELCA had a resolution stating that “we don’t know” what God thinks of non-Christian religions. A delegate got up and said “Yes we do. Jesus said He is the only way of salvation (John 14:6).” The delegate made an amendment to that effect, but he was voted down by 97%. When 97% of voters at an ELCA convention are unwilling to say that Jesus is the only Savior, the denomination is in very big trouble. So this Lent the ELCA will not talk about Christ being the only Savior, it will talk about dismantling white supremacy. This summer children at Vacation Bible School will learn how to overcome world hunger, but they will not learn that those in non-Christian religions desperately need Jesus. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom Brock (The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) I graduated from Luther Seminary way back in 1979. At that time it was moderate to liberal. Today, it is radically liberal. Over a year ago Luther hired a “queer theologian“. Luther has brought in transgender preachers at chapel. Luther has observed National Coming Out Day and Transgender Day of Remembrance. Luther has brought in womanist preachers and others who have prayed to “God the Mother“. Luther held a Native American spirituality worship service with prayers to the Great Spirit and burning sage in the pagan practice of smudging. I could go on and on. But look at the below chart and see how drastically Luther has fallen in attendance, being forced to sell off some of its land and buildings (it is the blue line below). And note that the other seminaries of the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are also shrinking.
As the Good Book says, you reap what you sow. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom Brock (The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) Mark Hanson, bishop emeritus of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, recently came out with the below video speaking against “the weeds of Christian Zionism and White Christian Nationalism“. It was during Hanson’s liberal leadership that the ELCA in 2009 voted to ordain practicing homosexual pastors, which caused a huge split in that denomination. The ELCA has lost 40 percent of its membership since its founding in 1988. Hanson also has defended “children who are transitioning” (to the opposite sex). Hanson preached a sermon in which he claimed that Jesus was mean and hurtful in His language to the Syrophoenician woman. According to Hanson, Jesus used despicable language toward her, but then Jesus changed His mind and helped her. In Christ, Pastor Tom Brock PS For Hanson’s sermon claiming Jesus used mean language and needed to be corrected, listen to minute 35:24 in link below (The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) Recently President Trump declared there are only two genders. Elizabeth Eaton, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has stated that everyone is not either male or female, there is a spectrum. In a new statement (below), Eaton again condemns Trump and the way he is enforcing America’s immigration laws.
If you look at the last three press releases from the ELCA, two are against Trump and one is about healing from racism. Whatever happened to saving the lost by bringing them to Christ? That is something one does not hear about from Eaton. She told a Chicago newspaper that, if Hell exists, she believes it is empty. She has also stated that the business of the Church is not so much about saving souls. So what is the business of the Church? From the ELCA’s press releases, it appears to be promoting liberal politics. And one will never hear a word for the protection of unborn children from the head bishop. A few years ago before Roe v. Wade was overthrown, Eaton went to the White House to lobby in favor of abortion rights. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom Brock (Read here) (The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) Bishop Stacie Fidlar of the Northern Illinois Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is staunchly against the belief that there are only two genders, even though that is what Jesus taught in Matthew 19:4. She claims to love transgender, non-binary and non-conforming people. But part of loving people is telling them the truth, and if God created a person a male then you are lying to tell him he can be a female. And it is not loving to destroy children by giving them hormone blockers and destructive surgeries. With leadership like this, no wonder ELCA membership is shrinking into oblivion. In Christ, Pastor Tom Brock (See here.)  |
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