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Changing the Lord's Prayer

2/7/2022

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Trinity Lutheran Church in Chelmsford, MA is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

Below is the prayer they used in their January 23, 2022 service. (I recently shared an article about a different ELCA church changing the words of the Lord's Prayer. See here)

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"THE LORD’S PRAYER

Our creator in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kin-dom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil.
For the kin-dom, the power,
and the glory are yours, now and forever.
Amen." 

(See page 13 here)

In Matthew 6 Jesus tells us "This, then, is how you should pray" and He then gives us what we now call the "Lord's Prayer." 

This ELCA church changed the words that Jesus gave us, replacing words "Father" with "creator" and "kingdom" with "kin-dom."

Scripture tells us "Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar." - Proverbs 30:5-6.

But we see this happen all the time in the ELCA.  ​
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Born again
2/8/2022 10:31:45 am

Not surprising. This was a natural next step for the deceiver denomination. ELCA is a member of the National Council of Churches. This council has a communist agenda. The Democrat Party ran on Bernie’s communist platform and that evil is playing out now after the stolen election. ELCA pastors tout communist, woke, leftist principles. Connect the dots. Many Republicans are on board with this as well. Connect the money gravy train as well. Read the book Red Handed by Robert Schweizer.

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Didaskalos link
2/13/2022 10:35:08 am

Meanwhile, in non-apostate, non-heretical, non-syncretistic, non-universalistic (i.e., confessional) Lutheranism, there's this biblical counsel:

'The Truth Will Set You Free' -- https://witness.lcms.org/2022/the-truth-will-set-you-free/

“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Scripture claims that salvation comes exclusively in the name of Jesus Christ. Many people object to this claim of the Christian faith. Instead, they think of Christianity as one of many options.
[. . .]
"The world’s religions are not all different paths to the same God; we are not blind men feeling elephants in the darkness. A light has shined on those dwelling in darkness, and that light is Jesus Christ. Any teaching that turns our attention away from Him and the doctrine He has handed down through the apostles and prophets in His Holy Word must be marked and avoided. The danger is not merely a little bit of confusion, but of lies leading down the path to eternal damnation.

"In this issue, we have provided a short introduction to the major world religions and the Lutheran confession to their teachings. To be clear: This is just an introduction. If you are regularly in conversation with those of another faith, I encourage you to look at Concordia Publishing House’s “How to Respond” series. These books go into greater detail and provide advice on how to speak more knowledgeably to those of another faith.

"Our hope in this issue is to whet your appetite to learn more to sharpen your own witness to Christ and Him crucified."

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Didaskalos
2/8/2022 05:32:47 pm

In its "Reconciling in Christ" Sunday service, Trinity Lutheran does dutiful obeisance to the world's expectations of any church upon which it deigns to bestow its favor.

** The "Trinity" invoked at the beginning of the service: "In name of the Holy Parent, and of the Child, And of the Holy Spirit..."

** The prayer takes pains to conform to the zeitgeist by declaring the church's stance "firmly against racism, homophobia, transphobia and any other sin that makes people feel less than because of who God lovingly made them to be."

Then comes the irony that would go right over the heads of an apostate church: the first line of the opening hymn is "Open your ears, O faithful people, open your hears and hear God's word."

Truly, God's Word is nothing more than a paperweight or a doorstop or a coffee table adornment to the ELCA. "For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes— so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them." [Jesus in Matthew 13:15]

Charles Spurgeon, a real shepherd, warned pretenders:

“Let this be a gauge to you. That kind of preaching which allows you to indulge in sin—that sort of teaching which lowers the standard of God’s Word for you, and makes you think more of your own judgment than of the teachings of Christ—away with it. Let others have it if they like. “Enter ye in at. the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.””

“If you can dwell with the wicked, if you can live as they live, and be ‘hail-fellow well met’ with the ungodly, if their practices are your practices, if their pleasures are your pleasures, then their god is your god, and you are one of them. There is no being a Christian without being shut out of the world’s camp.”



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G. Wycoff
3/2/2022 10:22:53 pm

Why do they take such pains to avoid the word "kingdom"? The Bible does not mandate (nor condemn) any particular form of government for the nations. More importantly, the Bible makes it clear that the "kingdom of God" is not a political state at all:

"The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:20-21)

"Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself." (John 6:15)

"Jesus said, 'My kingdom is not of this world.' " (John 18:36)

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Mike
3/6/2022 07:12:27 pm

I get the impression that they object to kings more as males than as monarchs. Either way, their objection to the word "kingdom" is foolish.

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