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Minnesota Lutheran church to feature “gender-expansive pronouns for God” in “explicitly transgender and non-binary worship service”

10/2/2022

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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.)

The below church is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The biblical language of referring to God as “He” and “Father” is being challenged in many ELCA congregations which now also refer to God as “Mother”. This is because many “progressive” pastors think male language for God is oppressive and patriarchal. But Jesus taught us to pray to “Our Father who art in heaven”, never once to “Our Mother”. But these pastors seem to think they are better experts in language for God than Jesus Christ. And this is not just some radical individual church, the head Bishop of the whole ELCA has also prayed publicly to God as “Mother.”

The person who sent me the below is concerned for her loved ones who attend this church. I would be too.

If you are still a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, time to leave and join a denomination which unashamedly worships God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We cannot improve upon the teaching of Jesus Christ and people are arrogant who think they can do so.

Sincerely in Christ,

Pastor Tom Brock
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"They" (world's first transgender bishop) are asked to step down

5/31/2022

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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.)

A year ago the very liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected the world's first transgender bishop. This is a woman who looks like a man and who wants to be called "they". Now, she (I refuse to say "they") has been asked to step down by the very, very liberal head bishop of the ELCA. You will see in head Bishop Elizabeth Eaton's letter (linked) below, Eaton is very willing to call this singular woman "they". The transgender bishop was not asked to step down because transgenderism denies who God creates people to be, but because she allegedly mishandled a situation with an Hispanic church.

In our sad age of sexual confusion, it is tragic that the ELCA leads the way in confusion by electing a transgender bishop to begin with, and then consistently referring to her as "they".

In Jesus our Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock

PS In September at the transgender bishop's installation service,
Bishop Eaton prayed to the "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" also as "Parent, Child, and Holy Breath" and "Rain, Estuary, and Sea"

 (Here) is Bishop Eaton's press release about the situation
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Bizarre praise for "they", the first transgender ELCA Lutheran bishop

2/28/2022

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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.)

Below you may read the entire story of church leaders praising the election of a woman who presents herself as a man. Megan Rohrer was elected as a bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Rohrer likes to use the pronoun "they" to refer to herself.

Here is praise from Reverend Mark Holmerud, the retiring ELCA bishop she replaced:

“My prayers will be with Bishop-Elect Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer as they prepare to take leave of their current ministry and assume the role of bishop for our Sierra Pacific Synod, I am confident that they will be blessed by the people of our synod through prayer as they serve..., May God’s peace and guidance of the Spirit be with Bishop-Elect Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer as they serve and lead in our midst. They will build on the pandemic experience and move the Sierra Pacific forward.”

This nonsense of calling a single person "they" is further evidence that much of the ELCA has adopted the LGBT agenda of doing away with traditional, Biblical sexuality. Two years ago at the ELCA's national assembly it was commonplace for delegates at the microphone to announce their preferred pronouns before they spoke.

Sexual confusion--from calling God "Mother" to ordaining practicing homosexual and transgender people--reigns in the ELCA.

Sincerely in Christ,
Pastor Tom Brock

Read article here. 


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Beware, another ELCA Lutheran Youth Gathering is coming…(Update: It is Canceled)

1/31/2022

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(See the end of the article for the UPDATE. The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.)

​Two years ago the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at its teen Youth Gathering had 31,000 teenagers chant “I renounce the lie that queerness is anything other than beauty”. That same event put an 11-year-old boy who thinks he is a girl on stage to promote transgenderism.

Below are three of the ELCA youth leaders who are involved in the upcoming ELCA Youth Gathering. As you can see, they announce their “preferred pronouns” to make sure they are being gay/trans inclusive. That should be enough of a clue not to send your teenager to the ELCA Youth Gathering.
In Jesus our Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock

PS. The ELCA Youth Gathering page at elca.org shows 16 “Meet the Team” youth leaders, and everyone of them lists preferred pronouns.




Article announcing the cancelation of the 2022 ELCA National Youth Gathering is here.

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Not respecting God’s “preferred pronoun” (He) in the ELCA Lutheran denomination

1/26/2022

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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.)

​Back in 1979 I was a student at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Luther Theological seminary. I was about to graduate and was given the opportunity to preach in chapel. Students were given a list of guidelines for speaking in chapel, one of which was to avoid masculine references for God. In one of my classes, if you referred to God as “He”, you had to put a footnote at the bottom of the page and explain why.  I did.  I wrote “Because that is the way the Bible refers to God.”
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​Fast forward to today. A while ago at Luther Seminary, a transgender chapel preacher said “Let us pray the Lord’s Prayer in whatever way you are comfortable, “Our Mother who is in heaven…”.  At the ELCA’s recent Churchwide Assembly, many delegates announced their “preferred pronouns” before they spoke, regardless of whether those pronouns matched their God – given anatomy.   This was their way of being “trans inclusive”.   In today’s strange world of religious liberalism, if you don’t call someone by their “preferred pronouns” you are doing “gender violence.”

What about respecting God’s “preferred pronoun”?   God consistently revealed Himself as “He” in both the Old and New Testaments. Yes, there is some female imagery for God in the Bible, like when Isaiah talks about God caring for us as a mother.  But the pronouns are always masculine and Jesus never prayed to God as “Mother” but only as “Father”.

This kind of desexing of God language is also taking place in the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, and the Presbyterian Church USA.  

How about respecting God’s “preferred pronoun”?

Sincerely in Christ,

Pastor Tom Brock




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ELCA 'Living Lutheran' magazine: The Holy Spirit is a 'her'

11/22/2021

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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.)

​The first article in the October 2021 edition of Living Lutheran, the official magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, says this: ”And the Spirit transforms you and me by her relentless presence in, with, and among humanity”.

The Bible never calls the Holy Spirit “her” or “she”, but that does not stop the feminist ELCA from revamping the biblical language for God. Indeed, years ago, the ELCA came out with its most recent hymnal which desexed all the Psalms to get rid of masculine pronouns for God.

I hope you attend a good church which unashamedly worships the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is the only true God.

In Jesus our Savior,
Pastor Tom Brock

PS The same article also talks about the “kindom” of God (whatever that is) instead of the “kingdom of God“.  I’m presuming we can’t even say the word “king” anymore because that is too patriarchal and oppressive.


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A very woke church: 'My pronouns are 'they' and getting rid of God as 'He'

9/21/2021

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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.)

Christ Lutheran Church in Blaine, Minnesota, is a congregation of the liberal Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I stumbled upon the below from their website, which encourages everyone to announce their preferred pronouns when introducing them/their/him/her/itself. It also appears they will now avoid referring to God as "He."

Whether the people at Christ Lutheran like it or not, God has revealed--dare I say it--Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are in no position to think we are so enlightened that we may correct God in His use of His preferred pronoun.

Sincerely in Christ,
Pastor Tom Brock

From Christ Lutheran's website:
This congregation wants to ensure that all people feel welcome at Christ Lutheran Church. For that purpose, a Welcoming Team was formed in 2020. Their work has begun, with a focus on ensuring that LGBTQ+ people have a safe space within the church, and to provide ways to be inclusive to the LGBTQ+ community... 

(read more from their website here) 

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​The strange new world of ELCA sexuality: The new Lutheran transgender bishop is a "they"

7/5/2021

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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.)

Below is a glowing article from the website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America about the denomination's recently elected first transgender bishop. This may be the first transgender bishop of any denomination anywhere as the ELCA leads the way in embracing new sexualities. The ELCA has also had two practicing homosexual bishops, one of which retired as bishop and is now an ELCA seminary president.

If you read the below article you will notice the transgender bishop is not referred to as "she" but as "they." This is the bizarre, new world of a denomination that has abandoned biblical sexuality and has embraced a secular world-view.

Sincerely in Christ,

Pastor Tom Brock

(See article here)


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ELCA advocacy claims "no political agenda" but lists people’s "preferred pronouns", including a woman who wants to be called "they/them"

8/13/2020

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(The following article is from Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.)

Watch the video below to see where offering dollars go in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The video claims that ELCA advocacy does not push a political agenda, while pushing the LGBTQAI+ agenda to the hilt.

You may go to ELCA.org and view their press releases of liberal causes. As I said in an earlier post, the ELCA does not lean to the left, it falls over to the left. But, they say, they don't have a political agenda.

In Jesus our Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock

(See video here or below)


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ELCA Shares LGBT+ Guide that Teaches to Ask Others What Personal Pronouns They Use

6/29/2020

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recently shared a LGBT+ organization's article with the comment "Each of us is a beloved child of God, perfectly and wonderfully made, just as we are. Thanks to ReconcilingWorks for this Lutheran introduction to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression."

​The article's photo of alternative pronoun name tags was included on the ELCA Facebook post. 

Out of the hundreds of LGBT+ supportive posts and articles by the ELCA and their leadership, I can not find one that holds to the Biblical view that homosexuality is a sin and not God's will for people. 

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The article accompanying the ELCA's name tag picture teaches "Sex, gender identity, and gender expression can be experienced on a continuum, creating a nearly infinite combination of identities. The binary gender system says that there are only two genders. Here, we can see that gender is truly far more complex this binary system."
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​Rev. Tom Brock had this to say about the ELCA Facebook post:


"A man used to be 'he' and a woman 'she'. Not anymore in the 'enlightened, woke' world of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

If there is any doubt that this denomination has gone radically liberal, look at the below article from the official Facebook page of the ELCA.

And, again, if you are still a member of the ELCA, time to take your money, time and talents elsewhere and join a Biblical denomination." 
(See here)


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ELCA National Assembly Votes to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Ordaining Practicing Homosexuals, as Delegates Announce their 'Preferred Pronouns'

8/23/2019

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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.)

If you go to minute 58:30 of the video below and watch for about 7 minutes, you will see the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America discuss whether to celebrate their decision 10 years ago to ordain practicing homosexuals, a decision that caused the biggest church split in American history and which caused the ELCA huge membership loss. You will notice the delegates announce their preferred pronouns before they speak. One ELCA lesbian pastor, who is “married” to another ELCA lesbian pastor, speaks with emotion. After the discussion, delegates voted 91 per cent to celebrate their defiance of Scripture.

ELCA membership and donations are shrinking, ELCA seminaries are downsizing, one seminary has closed, but the ELCA forges ahead in affirming homosexuality and transgenderism.

I encourage you to watch a few minutes of the below. This is the bizarre new world of the ELCA where delegates tell us what their preferred pronouns are, whether those pronouns match their God-given anatomy or not.

In Jesus our Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock


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