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My Lutheran seminary sings Buddhist hymn about "being one"

5/31/2023

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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 Twitter - here.)

​I graduated from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, many years ago when it was still moderate to liberal. It has become radical. The seminary chapel brought in Native American “smudging”, the burning of herbs in order to drive away evil spirits and negative energy. Luther chapel brought in a transgender preacher to pray to “Our Mother in heaven”. A “womanist theologian” at chapel had all the students stand in a circle and imagine they were in the “pushy womb of God”. Luther Seminary chapel has observed National Coming Out Day for homosexuals and also the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Recently, Luther hired a “queer theologian” to be a professor at Luther.

So, sadly, it is not surprising that recently Luther Seminary sang a Buddhist hymn about being one with everything. This is pantheism, the Buddhist teaching that God is everything and everything is God. You are God, I am God, the leaves are God, the waves are God, the mountains are God. In contrast, Christian teaching is that God is transcendent, separate from and above His creation. As Jesus taught us, “Our Father art in heaven”.

Luther Seminary announced a few years ago that because of failing finances it would have to sell off a number of its campus buildings. It reminded me of Revelation 2:5 where Jesus says “I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.”

Sincerely in Christ,
Pastor Tom Brock

PS. Tap on the below and you will see Luther students singing the Buddhist hymn, followed by Buddhist worshipers doing the same

https://thedissenter.substack.com/p/lutheran-seminary-chapel-sings-buddhist

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Head ELCA Lutheran bishop once again stands up for transgender rights, doesn’t mention sin or repentance

5/31/2023

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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 Twitter - here.)
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For a biological man to say that he is really a woman is to deny who God made him to be. But you won’t hear anything like that from the head bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Instead, it’s all “unconditional love and acceptance“. The ELCA even pays for hormone blockers for children and sex change operations for adults in its national healthcare plan which is funded by church offering dollars. You can see Bishop Eaton’s transgender video by tapping on the below.

In Christ,
Pastor Tom Brock

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Speaking truth to ELCA Lutheran power

5/22/2023

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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 Twitter - here.)
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Below is more heresy from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s website.  No, all people are not children of God. The Apostle Paul taught that we begin life as children of God’s wrath and only become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:4, Galatians 3:26). 

The ELCA bids us to speak truth to power. So let us do that…

ELCA leaders, please stop killing unborn children in the womb with the offerings of the people of God through the ELCA’s healthcare plan.

ELCA leaders, no, a little boy cannot become a little girl, so please stop giving hormone blockers to children through the ELCA’s healthcare plan, again, funded by offering dollars. 

ELCA’s leaders, no, a man cannot become a woman, so please stop paying for sex change operations with offering dollars.

ELCA leaders, you should not ban the Bible’s teaching that homosexual behavior is sinful as you are doing in your national publications like Living Lutheran magazine. 

ELCA leaders, you should not be embarrassed by “Father, Son, Holy Spirit” language for God as you instead seek for more “expansive, inclusive” language for God. 

ELCA leaders, you should not deny Jesus’ teaching on the reality of Hell as your head bishop did when she told a Chicago newspaper “If hell exists, I think it is empty“. 

ELCA leaders, your head bishop should not produce another gay pride video this June as she has done the last two years to celebrate LGBT pride month. 

ELCA leaders, you should not put a confused 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a girl on stage to promote transgenderism to 31,000 teenagers at the national ELCA Teen Assembly.

ELCA leaders, you should not send your head bishop to the White House to promote abortion rights as she did before the fall of Roe v. Wade. 

ELCA leaders, you should not vote down an amendment stating that Jesus is the only way of salvation (John 14:6) as you did at the ELCA national assembly.

Because of all of the above, I encourage everyone who is still a member of this denomination to find a more biblical Christian denomination to join.

In Jesus our Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock


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ELCA Falsely Claims God Calls All People His Children

5/17/2023

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America made the following post on Facebook. 
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​The ELCA has failed to correctly impart God's Word to people, as is documented on this website. Here is another example of the ELCA telling people something that goes against the truth explained in Scripture. 

The post, speaking to God, says "You call all people of the world your children." This is not what the Bible says. God's Word tells us in John 1:12, "But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, the gave the right to become 
children of God". You can read similar statements like this in the Bible that have the same sentiment.  (learn more about this here)

Please stop listening to ELCA leaders, ELCA pastors, ELCA institutions, and ELCA publications.

Know the Bible, do not just believe what you are told by others. Check them against what God's World says. This is true for all pastors, including those that are not ELCA but have been educated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 


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ELCA Lutheran magazine article encourages Native American worship, smudging, and making offerings to Mother Earth

5/15/2023

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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 Twitter - here.)

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In the November, 2021, edition of Living Lutheran, the official magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, a writer talks about how she practices both Native American religion and Christianity. She partakes in smudging ceremonies, burns tobacco as worship, and makes offerings to “Mother Earth”.

I remember years ago when I was still part of the ELCA, the Minneapolis Area Synod convention had a prayer time in which people turned to the north, south, east, and west, to pattern our worship after Native American prayers to the four winds. I got to the microphone and said “I am German, my ancestors worshipped Thor and Odin, are we going to incorporate Thor worship at our next convention?”

I went home to my Lutheran congregation and preached how the convention is now incorporating pagan practices. A dear Native American woman of my church came up afterward with tears in her eyes and said “They are trying to take us back to what Jesus saved me from!”

Some believe that the various world religions are all aspects of the same God. The Apostle Paul did not. He believed pagan Roman religions were not worshiping God, but demons (1 Corinthians 10:30).
It is tragic the ELCA’s national magazine does not see that.

In Jesus our Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock


(See page 28 of article here) 

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