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Exposing the ELCA: Ten Years Old and Needed More Than Ever

12/30/2019

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Ten years ago, December 2009, I began ExposingtheELCA.com.  

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of this ministry, designed to expose the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the ELCA's departure from Truth, God’s Word, historical Christian belief and teaching, and other troubling teachings and activities.
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Over these ten years, Exposing the ELCA has reached millions of people.

-  ExposingtheELCA.com has had over 2.7 million page views
 
-  Our website elcatoday.com has had 280,000 page views

​Publications in which I have been quoted directly or those who have shared content and have referenced or quoted ​Exposing the ELCA:

  • The Jerusalem Post
  • The New Yorker
  • Christian Examiner
  • ​The Daily Caller - article one
  • ​The Daily Caller - article two
  • ​LifeSiteNews.com
  • Pathos.com
  • WorldNetDaily - article one
  • WorldNetDaily - article two
  • ​The Christian Post - article one 
  • The Christian Post - article two
  • ​The Christian Post - article three
  • ​The Institute on Religion & Democracy - Juicy Ecumenism - article one  
  • The Institute on Religion & Democracy - Juicy Ecumenism - article two​
  • The Institute on Religion & Democracy - Juicy Ecumenism - article three
  • Ken Ham, founder of the Creation Museum, shared an article by Exposing the ELCA
  • Another Exposing the ELCA article shared by Ken Ham
  • Lutherans For Life
  • American Family Radio news interview
 
This ministry also has five Facebook pages or groups that reach hundreds of people daily.

We face an organization, in the ELCA, that has almost 20 billion dollars in assets and has brought in income, in the past, that has exceeded 2 billion dollars a year (see here).  They have millions of allies, thousands of websites and social media pages, dozens of educational institutions and a publishing company that they utilize to preach and teach their falsehoods.  

Shockingly, heretical leaders, preposterous teaching and radical policies in the ELCA have grown immensely in the last decade, and there are still 3.3 million ELCA members and millions of potential members who need to know the truth about the ELCA. 

Just peruse our "Newly Added Articles and Information" section on our homepage to see the height of the ELCA's heresy, and understand the need to carry on this calling, to expose the beliefs, teachings and actions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.


Can you help support the work of Exposing the ELCA?  

In 2018, Exposing the ELCA was given less than an average ELCA pastor makes in one week. It is imperative that this work continues, but support is required.

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In Christ,


Dan Skogen

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Queer ELCA Christmas Pageant Attended By ELCA Bishop

12/26/2019

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ELCA mission start, Dreams and Visions, last week held their second annual Queer Christmas Pageant. Delaware-Maryland Synod Bishop Bill Gohl was in attendance and posted about it on his Facebook page:

"One of our Delaware-Maryland Synod ELCA mission starts, Dreams and Visions, curated a holy space to welcome a rich diversity of people to incarnate and celebrate the birth of Christ. It was joyful, it was poignant, it was holy. I'm grateful and proud that Pr Emily M. D. Scott is my colleague, humbled by the community she creates, and astounded by how the Word becomes flesh through this ministry." (See here or below)


ELCA Pastor Lura N. Groen was also in attendance and wrote:

"We were all anointed with frankincense, myrrh, and gold eyeshadow. My Bishop, Bill Gohl came forward and was anointed by a drag queen." (See here or below)

This is the state of the ELCA, which many of you are members and are supporting.  Do you think God is pleased with the ELCA? Do you think our Lord and Savior wants you to be part of a denomination which leads people into sin?  The time is now to leave the ELCA and find a church that preaches in accordance with God's Word. 

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Rev. Emily Scott is the pastor of Dreams and Visions.  (Read more about her here)

Read about the ELCA church's first queer Christmas pageant here.

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More pictures of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America service:
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Above is a picture of ELCA Bishop Bill Gohl in attendance of the Queer Christmas Pageant.

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"Operation Christmas Child" Attack Article Recommended By ELCA Bishop

12/23/2019

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Kristen Kuempel is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) bishop of the newly named Northwest Intermountain Synod. Bishop Kuempel took to Facebook on October 2, 2019, to comment and share an article that attacks Franklin Graham's Operation Christmas Child (OCC) organization. 

The recommended article contains the assertions that "Samaritan’s Purse president Franklin Graham spews ever more hateful rhetoric about immigrants and Muslims" and that Operation Christmas Child is one of the "more toxic forms of charity."

The bishop-recommended article offers additional hollow criticism and then ELCA Bishop Kristen Kuempel concludes her post with a self-serving suggestion: "If this article changes your mind about OCC but you still want to help, check out the ELCA Good Gifts program."

One thing to know or remember about Operation Christmas Child is that they include a Gospel booklet, with their boxes, that shares Bible stories and invites children to follow Jesus, helping children know about our Lord and Savior. When was the last time you saw ELCA charities doing that?


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Another Tweet by the ELCA bishop has her attacking Franklin Graham:

Nor does Franklin Graham. https://t.co/SC5Prkv1ut

— Kristen Kuempel (she/her/hers) (@kristen_kuempel) October 7, 2019


​If you reject the ELCA bishop's implications and behavior, see here to be part of Operation Christmas Child's God-honoring work.

Click here to read another Exposing the ELCA article of an ELCA leader attacking Operation Christmas Child.
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ELCA National Magazine Says that Jesus had 'rebellious and haughty moments'

12/20/2019

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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.)

Frank Honeycutt, a pastor of the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has written a number of articles for the ELCA’s national magazine Living Lutheran. In the December issue, he says of Jesus “...he undoubtably...threw a tantrum or two, and grew up into a teenager with occasional rebellious and haughty moments...I’m convinced Jesus didn’t pop out of his mom’s womb preprogrammed to always do and say the right and perfect thing. This last sentence may unnerve some Lutherans...”

It certainly does. If Jesus was rebellious and haughty, then He sinned. If Jesus sinned, he would have to pay for his own sins on the cross and could not be the spotless Lamb of God who sacrificed himself in our place for our sins. The Bible teaches that Jesus was indeed both fully God and fully man. But the Bible also makes it clear that Jesus never sinned (Hebrews 4:15, 1 Peter 2:22, 1 John 3:5, 2 Corinthians 5:21). In John 8:46, Jesus challenged the Jewish leaders “...which one of you convicts me of sin?”. They couldn’t. But apparently the ELCA’s national magazine feels it can convict Jesus of having “rebellious and haughty moments.”

This is tragic false teaching. See the entire article in the link below.

Just to recap some of the ELCA’s actions: it recently ordained a transgender pastor who called Jesus “an SOB”...this summer it passed an interfaith resolution saying we don’t know what God thinks of non-Christian religions and refused to affirm Jesus as the only way of salvation...the ELCA publicized a TV program that presents a Lutheran transgender 13-year-old as a “hero” and the ELCA healthcare plan paid for the child’s hormone blockers...and the ELCA continues to pay for abortion for any reason whatsoever in its healthcare plan which is funded by offering dollars.

If you are still an ELCA Lutheran, I strongly encourage you to make this your New Year’s resolution: to find a more biblical denomination where I can give my offering dollars joyfully knowing they will go toward proclaiming Jesus as the only way of salvation, and will not go toward hormone blockers for children and abortion.

Sincerely in Christ,
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Pastor Tom Brock

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(Read the ELCA article here) 


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Listen to this homosexual ELCA pastor encourage the ELCA Churchwide Assembly to openly celebrate their pro-homosexual decision

12/16/2019

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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.)

​This summer the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America held its churchwide assembly. One of the preachers, a homosexual pastor with a “husband“, remembered the 2009 ELCA decision to ordain practicing homosexuals.  He encouraged them not to celebrate that decision behind closed doors, but to celebrate it openly.

Even this liberal crowd did not seem to me to be overly excited about his message. Perhaps that is because the 2009 ELCA decision caused the greatest church split in American history and has cost the ELCA  a huge number of members and donations.   

During the 2009 decision, conservatives were assured that both liberal and conservative views would be honored on the issue. However, this summer’s ELCA assembly had no speaker who was allowed to annunciate the traditional, biblical understanding of homosexuality.  So much for both sides being honored.

If you want to hear how a Lutheran pastor tries to justify his homosexual behavior in the name of Christ, started at minute 13:17 below.

In Christ,

Pastor Tom Brock



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Rev. Bradley Schmeling sermon.  Wednesday Worship at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly 2019.
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ELCA Bishop Retweet Calls the Salvation Army a 'Garbage Organization'

12/12/2019

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Kristen Kuempel is a newly elected bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. (See Bishop Kuempel's description of herself on the right)  Last month she retweeted a person's tweet that said:

"A reminder this holiday season that the Salvation Army is a homophobic, transphobic, uncaring, garbage organization" (See below).

The Salvation Army is a Christian denomination that loves everyone and holds to the teachings of God's Word. 

The fact that an ELCA bishop demonizes and portrays the Salvation Army this way tells you everything you need to know about the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  
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How do you think ELCA leadership feels about their members who believe God's Word,  that homosexuality is sinful and that trying to be a gender you are not, is harmful?

Why would anyone who trusts the Word of God support and be part of one of their churches? 

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Additionally, as you consider how Bishop Kuempel reacts to those with whom she disagrees, ask yourself, when reading her tweet below, is this the type of language and behavior you want to see from a leader in your church?  Why does the ELCA  allow this?

Fuck this guy. https://t.co/UrjMJt5mEC

— Kristen Kuempel (she/her/hers) (@kristen_kuempel) November 16, 2019

Kristen Kuempel is the Northwest Intermountain Synod Bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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ELCA Publicizes 13-Year-Old 'Transgender Hero'

12/9/2019

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Last year, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America endorsed transgenderism by having a 12-year-old "transgender" person and his/her advocate mother speak to 31,000 youth at the ELCA Youth Gathering. (See here)  This last week, the ELCA is pushing the transgender narrative by promoting a television show about about this same child, calling him/her the "Marvel's first transgender hero." (See below)

This liberal, Bible-defying, God-mocking denomination is encouraging and celebrating sinful lifestyles.

Attending and financially supporting the ELCA makes it possible for the ELCA to push their sinful agenda and pay professionals to indoctrinate people under the guise of Christianity. 
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2018 @elcagathering speaker @MightyRebekah just became @Marvel’s first transgender hero! Check out her origin story below:@disneyplus #MightyRebekah #Marvel #HeroProject #DisneyPlus #lgbtqyouthhttps://t.co/xwsA7t1nKp

— ELCA Lutherans (@ELCA) December 6, 2019

​ELCA pastor Emily Heitzman writes:

@MightyRebekah: You are sooo brave, strong & such an inspiration! Not only R you giving youth the confidence 2 be themselves, but you R also giving adults Iike this 38 yr old bisexual ELCA pastor the confidence to be myself. You truly ARE changing the world! #FaithfullyLGBT pic.twitter.com/QuYgZ3IHoK

— Rev. Emily Heitzman (@PastorEmilyH) December 6, 2019

Of course, "Rebekah's" mother is heavily promoting her child's show. Below are a couple examples.  "Rebekah's" father is an ELCA pastor. 
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Pastor Tom Brock had an excellent post about this story.  I will embed it below:
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A Dominatrix Christmas: Nadia Bolz-Weber, the Most Prominent Pastor in the ELCA

12/4/2019

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Well-known Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) pastor, Nadia Bolz-Weber, recently posted pictures of herself from 1995 saying "Proof that in 1995 I dressed up as a dominatrix for my Christmas Card which just said:  Bad Santa. #yourwelcome" (See below)

​Sexual perversion is rising in popularity in the ELCA as evidenced in this example.  And ELCA leadership makes no attempt to quash it. 
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Fact is, Rev. Bolz-Weber is very popular within the denomination, both with ELCA leaders and members, despite her vulgar words and heretical beliefs.  (See here and here) She has been elevated into positions of great influence by ELCA leadership including speaking at multiple ELCA National Youth Gatherings. 



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    Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.  
    ​1 Thessalonians 5:21

    Dan Skogen

    Former ELCA seminary student and former ELCA member who is fed up with the ELCA's consistent mockery of God's Word.


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