ELCA bishop regrets the 'harm' done by the Lutheran Church once teaching that homosexual behavior is wrong

6/26/2023

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

In yet another gay pride video produced by a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the below bishop regrets the “harm” done by prior ELCA teaching that homosexual behavior is wrong. That teaching changed in 2009 (not 2012 as the bishop states) when the ELCA supposedly became enlightened and compassionate and started ordaining practicing homosexuals and performing gay weddings.

I myself personally struggle with same-sex attraction but I abstain for the sake of Christ and my soul. I can tell you that the below video is not loving. It is not loving to condone a behavior that will exclude people from God’s Kingdom for eternity. The bishop needs to follow the Bible’s teaching in I Corinthians 6:9-11 and stop kowtowing to the culture.

Back in 2009 when the ELCA approved homosexual behavior, conservatives were assured that their viewpoint would also be honored in the ELCA. I know of not one ELCA bishop who publicly upholds the traditional, biblical point of view.

Sincerely in Christ,
Pastor Tom Brock

4 Comments

Didaskalos link

6/26/2023 03:02:19 pm

Pastor John MacArthur, whose biblically faithful Grace to You ministry advances the kingdom of God every day, wrote a June 26 blog post -- "The Character of a Compromising Church" [ https://www.gty.org/library/blog/B230626 ] -- that unerringly capsulizes the quisling ELCA and its servile hirelings:

"...the church today works incredibly hard to appear as much like the culture as possible. For decades, it has been popular for church leaders to make their services look, sound, and feel exactly like secular gatherings and events. Many churches today are indistinguishable from the concert venues and theaters of the world. They fastidiously imitate the latest pop-culture trends, desperate to seem relevant and cool.

"Such events are built on a philosophy of pragmatism: If it produces the desired effect, they’ll do it. The result is a church that is sinner-friendly—not God-friendly, and certainly not sinner-frightening. It’s a show built in the image of the pagan world. And as the world grows increasingly hostile to the gospel, the sinner-friendly church must compromise more and more to maintain its attractiveness. Leery of offending anyone, they emphasize physical and emotional experience, not spiritual worship; superficial affirmation, not conviction; sentimentality, not theology; entertainment, not edification; and frivolity, not solemnity.

"Worse still, they’re petrified of rejection and persecution, so they will always fall in line with the world’s expectations and ever-changing social norms. Many churches today turn a blind eye to sexual immorality; others won’t talk about sin at all. They ignore the topic, occasionally focusing on troublesome issues in life but never declaring the power, presence, and destructive damage of sin or naming it as an offense to God’s holiness requiring judgment. It’s a therapeutic church culture, designed to make sinners feel comfortable, welcome, and validated at any cost.

"But worldliness does not make the gospel look attractive; it makes it look impotent. These churches need to realize the grave disservice they are doing to the cause of Christ and the progress of the gospel. A church that’s just like the world has nothing to offer to the world—it’s merely another mode of disposable entertainment. And how could they think such worldliness could be offered to God as worship? . . ."

Rebecca

6/27/2023 10:24:35 am

Amen. I have long said that the churches sound like a concert and has is drawn in young people by the thousands? Not in most churches. It has just turned off many who can't take it anymore.
I don't believe young (or old) go to a church expecting a rock concert! I think they expect More from a church. They expect it
to probably step on their toes a bit.......
The churches I was in that taught BIBLE were packed!

An Interested Reader

6/28/2023 01:24:19 pm

This is what a portion of your ELCA offerings are funding along with abortions and other very left learning agendas. If the surveys taken on the shrinking of the ELCA synod in 20 years come true, they may only require a couple of bishops as they rest of them will not be needed or will not be affordable anymore!

Born again

6/28/2023 07:11:13 pm

Obviously this “bishop” has not read the Bible.

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