|
(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and X - here.) Many years ago, I graduated from Luther Seminary, a seminary of the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. When I graduated, Luther was moderate to liberal. Today it is radical. Luther has brought in transgender preachers at chapel. Luther held a pagan Native American smudging ceremony during chapel. Chapel services have featured womanist/feminist preachers with periodic prayers to “God the Mother.”
In a previous post, I explained that due to shrinking attendance and finances, a few years ago Luther had to sell off half of its seminary buildings. Did Luther Seminary learn from this? No, two years ago Luther hired a "queer theologian". Please take a look at today’s announcement from Luther below. Luther is now having to sell all of its seminary buildings, downsize and relocate. This is tragic. I think of the godly Lutherans who founded Luther Seminary in 1892 and how aghast they would be to see what it has become. I cannot help but think of the verse from Revelation 2:5, “If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. Therefore, remember, from where have fallen and repent, and do the deeds you did it first. Or else I am coming to you, and I will remove your lampstand from his place, unless you repent” (Revelation 2:5). In the providence of God, I think it is best that seminaries like this close. And many liberal seminaries of the ELCA Lutheran, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian Church USA, Episcopal and United Methodist seminaries are shrinking and closing. If a seminary is promoting unbiblical teaching, it is probably best for the Kingdom that it closes. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom Brock (see here)
3 Comments
(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and X - here.) Reverend Donna Simon, a lesbian with a “wife”, has been elected as bishop of the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I believe that makes 9 practicing homosexual bishops in the ELCA. The ELCA also elected the world’s first transgender bishop but “they” had to step down over alleged racism. This is yet another reason to leave this aberrant denomination. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom Brock www.stmarkhopeandpeacekc.org/pastors-bio  This is not a parody: ELCA Lutheran synod hosts Queer Confirmation retreat for fifth-graders6/2/2025
(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and X - here.)
Look at the Queer Confirmation youth retreat below that the Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is hosting for fifth-graders, fifth-graders!
Don’t walk, run from the ELCA. 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 X - here.) In recent years, Christian bakers and florists have been taken to court for not servicing homosexual weddings. President Trump desires to end these attacks on religious liberty, but Midwest bishops in the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America believe this is “dangerous“ and a conflation of Christian fundamentalism with “Christian Nationalism”.
This reminds me of a few years ago when Elizabeth Eaton, head bishop of the ELCA, went to the White House to lobby for abortion rights. If you have any doubt that the ELCA is all about liberal politics, go to elca.org and hit “news“ and see political pronouncement after political pronouncement. This is your ELCA offering dollars at work. Time and energy that should go to spreading the gospel of Christ are going elsewhere. The ELCA has shrunk 40 percent in membership since its founding in 1988, and it should. 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 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) 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.)
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
A message from the ELCA -
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 |
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. If you have been helped and blessed by Exposing the ELCA's ministry, please help us continue to proclaim the truth of God's Word to ELCA members who need to hear it.
Give online by clicking the "donate" button below: Categories
All
Archives
May 2026
 Exposing the ELCA is on Facebook 
Follow Exposing the ELCA on Twitter
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. - Ephesians 5:11
|
RSS Feed