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Abortion Loving ELCA Pastor and Other ELCA Leaders

6/29/2022

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The ELCA supports and advocates for abortion (see here), and their bishop's and pastors are overwhelming in support of abortion.

ELCA pastor Elle Dowd, who is a minor celebrity within the ELCA crowd, says, "I love abortion" and "Any reason someone needs - OR WANTS - an abortion is a good reason."
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Michael Rinehart, Bishop of the TX-LA Gulf Coast Synod, of the ELCA made numerous abortion related FB posts, including this one that ends with "Enter the Taliban":
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​The ELCA's pastor of public witness, Nadia Bolz-Weber, tweets:
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Transgender ELCA pastor Drew Stever says, "I will help you find a safe abortion."

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​ELCA pastor Lura Groen took to Facebook with these abortion-related posts:

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Lesbian ELCA synod bishop Brenda Bos writes:


The East Central Synod of Wisconsin's synod bishop Anne Edison-Albright posted this:

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Didaskalos link
6/29/2022 06:46:00 pm

God claims (Psalm 139, et al.) foreknowledge of, authorship of, and ownership of the preborn babies created in His image. The ELCA cold-bloodedly promotes and abets their murder. “There is no fear of God before their eyes” . . . but one day, in this life or in eternity, there will be. “Do you presume on the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?”

Don't stay in a denomination with blood on its hands, ELCA member. "Then I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 'Come out, my people! Come out from her! You must not take part in her sins. . .'" [Rev. 18:4] Flee the ELCA and join a church that seeks to honor and obey God's Word.

The LCMS is one of the confessional Lutheran refuges from the godless ELCA.

'LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison addresses SCOTUS decision' -- https://reporter.lcms.org/2022/lcms-president-rev-dr-matthew-c-harrison-addresses-scotus-decision/

". . .Today is also the Church’s feast day, the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ. These two events are a happy convergence.

"Today we celebrate the birth of the one who, before he was born, leaped in joyful Spirit-inspired confession when his mother met the mother of his unborn Lord. Today we take comfort in our Lord’s unborn forerunner and in the unborn Savior. We also rejoice at the resounding victory for life in the United States. Many of us long doubted it would ever come. The Lord has had mercy upon us, even us, sinners all, even in these times.

"Today we continue to speak out against the evil of abortion, which many will continue to practice and advocate in states bent on death. Many who have been misled by the father of lies and the culture of death greet this day with weeping and gnashing of teeth. Today we continue to sing that the Lord 'has visited and redeemed his people' (Luke 1:68).

"Today we pray for unborn children who remain unprotected in many states. Today, in many places, the abortion industry continues to kill unborn children and welcomes those from states where such killing is illegal. Today we take comfort that by the Lord’s hand 'we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us' (Luke 1:71).
[ . . .]
"Today we lovingly invite all to listen to Jesus’ call, 'repent and believe in the gospel' (Mark 1:15). If you have caused an abortion, the taking of life, there is forgiveness in Jesus! Don’t be hardened in sin or advocate for more sins. Today you have hope in the One whose way John the Baptist prepared. Jesus is for sinners. Come join the rest of us forgiven sinners! Jesus is for you! You need not have a bad conscience! Repent and believe the Good News of God’s love for you in Jesus.

"Today we lament that the U.S. Supreme Court continues to deny the unborn the legally recognized right to life. Even though Roe v. Wade has fallen, states can still allow the killing of unborn children. Today we pray that more unborn will leap for joy in the womb, as St. John did.

"Today, even as we rejoice, we weep that U.S. policy continues to promote abortion globally. Today we bend our knees in prayer.

"O Lord, 'let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream' (Amos 5:24). The Lord preceded His Son, our Savior, with a forerunner. We pray that today’s decision points ahead to the day when every state advances the cause of life and expands protections for unborn children.

"Lord have mercy upon us."

Matthew C. Harrison
President
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

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Born again
6/29/2022 07:09:43 pm

These “pastors” think they are so smart. Imagine them standing before a Holy God at judgement when he asks “what did you do to protect my creation?”

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Didaskalos link
6/30/2022 02:54:07 pm

Nadia Bolz-Weber "justifies" the elective abortion of her baby whose death was SO VERY IMPORTANT, you must understand, because that dead baby GAVE HER SPACE TO BECOME WHO SHE IS. God will have the final word on "success" purchased with blood money. Before it's too late, the ELCA needs to know that Bible-flouting heresy and libertine apostasy put their unrepentant advocates and practitioners squarely on the "broad road that leads to destruction": "No one who abides in Him [Jesus] deliberately, knowingly, and habitually practices sin. No one who habitually sins has seen Him or known Him." [1 John 3:6]

'Raging Democratic Socialists Mourn their Lost Sacrament: Abortion'

-- https://johnkassnews.com/democratic-socialists-mourn-the-loss-of-their-sacrament-of-abortion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=democratic-socialists-mourn-the-loss-of-their-sacrament-of-abortion

[ . . .] "The image [of a baby in the womb] at the top of this column is not some mass of unwanted cells, like some tumor blocking the way to a splendid career in the corporate world, a career of meetings and lunches and fine clothes worn in those giant downtown palaces of steel and glass. It is not a roadblock to promotion to partner at a big law firm, where power and wealth await.

"It is not a barrier to recreation, or to ambition or to joy. It is not an impediment to spiritual growth. It isn’t easy. It comes with great responsibility, with lost hours, sleeplessness, anguish, and concern that only parents know. It also comes with joy that cannot be explained.

"It is the enemy of the culture of death. . .

"So, that infant in the mother’s womb at the top of this column is more than just a symbol.

"It is God’s gift and His offered antidote to the culture of death.

"It is life."

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Stephen Hedlund
7/5/2022 01:35:27 am

All of the above pastors are generally at odds even with the ELCA's own Social Statement on abortion which says:

The position of this church is that, in cases where the life of the mother is threatened, where pregnancy results from rape or incest, or where the embryo or fetus has lethal abnormalities incompatible with life, abortion prior to viability should not be prohibited by law or by lack of public funding of abortions for low income women. On the other hand, this church supports legislation that prohibits abortions that are performed after the fetus is determined to be viable, except when the mother’s life is threatened or when lethal abnormalities indicate the prospective newborn will die very soon.

(It's not that Moses brought that social statement down from the mountain or anything. It is certainly a political document and one than no one bothers either to challenge or enforce.)



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