Appalling Speakers at the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering

6/27/2018

The 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering takes place this week, beginning Wednesday, June 27.

The ELCA has assembled the most appalling speakers to preach to more than 30,000 teenagers. Over the last three months Exposing the ELCA has warned you of the disturbing, foul-mouthed and extreme speakers and organizations who will be promoting their thoughts and ideologies into the hearts and minds of all those listening. One, ELCA Rev. Tuhina Verma Rasche, is a keynote speaker who co-authored the (please excuse me) "Fuck This Shit" devotional. (read here). Another is ELCA Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber, who I have written about extensively because of her horrific theology, unabashed cursing, and anti-Biblical social beliefs. (See here) Next, presenting at the gathering is a transgender boy with his trans-activist mother. (See here) And finally, several highly troubling organizations will be hosting and leading something the Gathering calls "Interactive Learning." (See here)

I just learned this weekend that in addition to being keynote speakers, Rev. Tuhina Verma Rasche and Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber will be teaching the teenagers in "Live Bible Studies." The ELCA website describes the Bible studies this way:

"Part of our Community Life programming for the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering are daily bible studies featuring some of our guest speakers on our main stage!" (see here)

Below I have compiled additional information about some of the ELCA leaders who are placed in a position of authority and influence over the ELCA teenagers at the Youth Gathering.

Keynote speaker Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber is a "Christo-centric universalist," does not view homosexual sex as sin, has a drag queen perform at church functions, presided over a transgender renaming ceremony, views the Wiccan goddess as an aspect of God, views some of Scripture as just the writer's opinion, has called some of Scripture "wretched," doesn't believe every line of the Apostles' Creed and doesn't believe in substitutionary atonement. (See here) Below are some tweets by Rev. Bolz-Weber. You can also see many of the disturbing thoughts and actions of this leader, and her vile language, by viewing some more of her social media postings here.

Happy Pride! pic.twitter.com/wPXy6BV8ut
— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) June 17, 2018

For #ColoradoGivesDay I supported @PPRockyMountain @RMGDRI @deloresproject @lighthousewrite (women's health, animals, poverty, arts) #Denver
— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) December 8, 2015

Love my church. #HFASS at #Denver #pride pic.twitter.com/UPtJob7gU0
— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) June 19, 2016

Nadia is pictured below with a transgender ELCA pastor.

Congratulation, Pastor Asher! @AsherOCallaghan @rmselca #hfass #elca pic.twitter.com/XDbyiLx7Bh
— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) July 3, 2015

Some additional reseach, since my first blog about ELCA Pastor Tuhina Verma Rasche, (see here) has uncovered more disturbing information. Here is a quote from her "devotional" -

“I’m angry because in the midst of conversations about justice, they are just that: conversations. Actual justice, the world turned upside down, has yet to appear in the fullness of her glory. And God damn it, I want to live into the fullness of who God created me to be, which is a threat to misogynist white supremacists…My anger and desire to see justice lived in the world hasn’t dissipated from last year’s #FuckThisShit devotional.” (See here)

Cali isn’t as liberal as y’all think. It’s also high on the drug of whiteness. I mean, #BBQBecky & #PermitPatty.
— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) June 24, 2018

I have found my attire for any & every synod assembly in the ELCA. pic.twitter.com/XrVlJBsHds
— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) April 18, 2018

Trans siblings, you are beloved. You are wonderfully made into the fullness and wholeness of who God created you to be. You are not a burden. You are not a distraction. You are holy. You are loved.
— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) March 24, 2018

WT actual F? https://t.co/Dq8fJmN1YF
— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) April 8, 2018

Scripture was written by people. Broken & beautiful people. Sometimes they got it so very right. And other times, I don't even know if I can say "Thanks be to God" after a reading.#Slatespeak https://t.co/qhghS8aBkr
— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) April 20, 2018

My personal response? I don't do white nonsense. Call it out & walk away. I'm not there to wipe snot or pick up the pieces. #Slatespeak https://t.co/j8CnxZYV1S
— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) April 20, 2018

God. damn. it. Seriously, God damn this. https://t.co/nA6OMwvuTa
— Tuhina Verma Rasche (@tvrasche) June 18, 2018

Shame on the ELCA leadership for picking such vile speaking, theological troubling and extreme liberal spewing people to influence the unsuspecting youth.

11 Comments

Didaskalos link

6/27/2018 05:20:00 am

The biblically bankrupt ELCA gets ready to propagandize its youth: "Hey, kids, here's our preeminent rock star pastor -- and some of her feminism-uber-alles sisters -- who'll tell you how to live your lives. She's famous. She's written books. She's loved by the world, as we strive continuously to be. She's our headline act. (So why do our membership numbers keep sinking like an anvil? Or is it millstone?)"

". . . Let me say it candidly: Bolz-Weber has no business being a pastor and, therefore, no business writing as a pastor. She proves this on nearly every page of her book [Accidental Saints]. Time and again she shows that she is woefully lacking in godly character. Her stories, her word choice, her interactions with her parishioners, her temper, her endlessly foul mouth, her novel interpretations of Scripture—they lead to the alarming and disturbing picture of a person who does not take the office seriously enough to ask if she is qualified to it.

". . . she boldly tells others how to live as Christians even while she is so obviously and braggingly deficient in godly character. See, somehow she equates transparency with suitability, as if her abundance of flaws, foibles, and outright sin serve as a résumé, as if they are evidence of godliness. But, biblically, nothing could be farther from the truth. This kind of transparency may masquerade as humility but is actually the very height of pride. She revels in the things God forbids and makes little of an office God holds sacred.

"Of course, her disregard for the office of pastor should probably not be a great surprise since the religion she describes bears little resemblance to Christianity, at least as the Bible describes it. And this, I suppose, is her point: She wants to recreate the Christian faith and make it palatable to the twenty-first-century culture. To do this she uses the Bible when and how it suits her, but without any consistency. She casts doubt on the miraculous and supernatural. She affirms homosexuality and transgenderism. She teaches a form of universalism. She outright denies all kinds of central Christian doctrines including, of course, Christ’s substitutionary sacrifice (which she mocks like this: “God gathers up all our sin, all our broken-ass junk, into God’s own self and transforms all that death into life. Jesus takes our crap and exchanges it for his blessedness.”). What remains in the end has only the barest, weakest, blandest hint of Christianity left.

"As I finished the book I realized that I have read it before—or others just like it, at least. This is yet another in a long line of books meant to appeal to those who want to bear the name of Christ but without becoming like Christ. It’s not that Bolz-Weber doesn’t have any interesting or even helpful insights into life, into sin, and into human nature. It’s just that her brand of Christianity confuses worldliness and godliness. No wonder, then, that the eager masses are lapping it up. Her God calls us to himself but then leaves us to be whoever and whatever we want to be.

"In my assessment, Bolz-Weber is outrageous for the sake of being outrageous and that makes for the worst kind of book. Consider this anecdote: “I dug out a scarf from my bag and made a remark about the ****ing air conditioning as we listened to the prelude for the service to follow, and by ‘listened to,’ I mean made fun of. ‘Bruce, is this prelude helping us or hurting us, you think?’ There is something about dropping F-bombs and making fun of worship music with a bishop that makes me feel warm and fuzzy.” Her schtick is not cool. It’s not funny. It’s not shocking or edgy. It’s stupid, it’s bland, it’s old, it’s boring, it has already been tried and found wanting."

Accidental Saints -- reviewed by Tim Challies [ https://www.challies.com/book-reviews/accidental-saints/ ]

Grace

6/27/2018 03:02:01 pm

Father, forgive them for they know what they are doing. E L C A should be ashamed to lead young people down this road. There must be something wrong if you have to have your comment approved.

Bryan Anderson

7/1/2018 09:15:10 pm

Oh they know very well what they are doing. They are indoctrinating the next generation into their flaky uber liberal left winged agenda with such unashamed evangelism it would make an old time Bible thumping fundamentalist look like a flower. They are the mirror image of right wing nut job hacks, merely representing the other end of the spectrum.

John

6/27/2018 11:42:21 pm

Youth Gathering hashtags we'd love to see:
#DeAbortionizeLutheranism
#DeSodomizeLutheranism
#DeTerrorizeLutheranism
#DePaganizeLutheranism
#DeProfanitizeLutheranism
#DeCommunizeLutheranism
And finally ...
#ReChristianizeLutheranism

Jean Machamer

7/11/2018 12:41:07 pm

I, too, am appalled that my ELCA has allowed these speakers to present their vulgar messages that blaspheme the Word of God. Those who do not speak out against what is happening are as guilty as those who promote this ungodly theology. God help our teenagers who were exposed to this.

disturbed

7/21/2018 08:46:04 pm

I don't even have words for this. This is sick. I will show my father what the ELCA has done to his church, so he understands where his money is going.

Bob Knight

8/2/2018 10:02:11 am

It's not really all that important when it comes to my opinion, but what is important is what God has said:
"For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord. And again, "THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE." (Hebrews 10:26-30)
This is what waits for those, who like the ELCA, have made a mockery of the Truth.

Shannon Elam link

8/3/2018 03:41:05 am

Im in " Shock" !!! I don't understand what the purpose of gathering together and calling it a Church ?? That kinda of message would have never led me to Isaiah 1-18. I didn't know there was a Love Greater than ALL of demonic activity I'd always known prior to the many times I should have not made it alive to find out the Truth!!! I Pray that everyone picks up thier own Bible before allowing Anyone to tell you thier version of truth. I Thank God with all my heart that once I felt for myself personally a Love Greater than I'd ever known, that I wanted to for myself what was between those pages of God's Word, I already knew evil and that my whole life was a targeted from the enemy of God's Creation. Survivor's learn early to feed themselves. Fellowship is wonderful with people who know God's Word and Love because they're not going to judge where you have been, Romans chapter 1, but they will share the Truth and where they were when they found out about God's plan for redemption threw Christ Jesus death and reserection, this is the Truth throughout the The Word of God. I Pray that whoever is really hurting and wanting to be Loved and have a knowledge of certainty that Hope in God is for them too personally will not allow themselves to be led down somebody else's rant's and lie's with Gods Love and.Mercy I'm believing that my Prayers are being heard and answered for as many of our youth as possible, yes Thankfully This is your Will Lord Jesus that none would Parrish !
Isaiah 1-18

Calvin

8/4/2018 11:50:13 am

Martin Luther would be rolling in his grave at such an event like this! How far we've fallen!

Murvon Minnemann

8/6/2018 04:43:07 pm

You can read what the BIBLE says about the ELCA in the book of
REVELATION in chapter 18 v4.

Terry Mcclain

3/4/2019 09:00:13 am

I too am discussed at the ELCA for trying to warp the minds of young people at their convention. We will send no funds to them because of this.

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