ELCA gay pride worship service: “Bring your trans bodies…scarred bodies… pierced bodies”

7/30/2024

(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 two minute video is of a gay pride worship service of a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. During the prayer Jesus is referred to as God’s “Child” (“Son” would be sexist) and states: “You sent your Beloved Child to dissolve the binaries”. Really? Jesus said that God made us binary, male and female (see Matthew 19:4-6). The pastor reads from a children's book “’Twas the night before Pride…the drag queens all brushed their wigs with great care.” A youth tells his/her/their story of coming out as transgender. During communion the pastor tells everyone to “Bring your trans bodies, your bodies destined for metamorphosis, your scarred bodies, your pierced bodies…”

The good news is, as you can see from the video, almost nobody attends this church.

In Jesus our Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock

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Didaskalos link

7/30/2024 04:00:23 pm

One hundred years ago, G. K. Chesterton foresaw a sin-recategorizing society. In the midst of sin's brokenness and a host of governmental and religious bodies actively promoting that brokenness, there is still hope.

'Pointing to the Right Path' [July/August 2024 Issue of Gilbert Magazine]
by Dale Ahlquist, President of The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton
-- https://www.chesterton.org/pointing-to-the-right-path/

"We believe there really is a peril. It is not so much in the actions as in the assumptions. It is not so much in the sins for which individual sinners are pilloried, as in the sins for which they are not pilloried; the sins that seem to be no longer regarded as sins at all. It is in the things taken for granted; the things passed over; even the things forgotten, that the glaring change appears. It is involved in the very words used to whitewash it. People say, “There were blackguards like that a hundred years ago and in every age.” The answer is “Yes; there were blackguards like that a hundred years ago. But there were not respectable people like that a hundred years ago. Society did not assume a convention of sin, which only became unconventional when it actually turned into crime. It is not that more people have broken the law; it is that the law is broken; broken in the sense of having broken down.”
-- G.K.’s Weekly, April 4, 1925

Once again, one hundred years before the fact, G.K. Chesterton tells us what’s going on right now.

Sins are no longer regarded as sins. Sin is respectable. The law has broken down. And the peril is real.

The law is not just permitting sin. It is enforcing sin. Those who offer opposition to sin are now outlaws. Consider the sins our sorry society has come to accept as law. Easy Divorce. Entitled contraception. Perverse sex that is not merely sanctioned but enshrined under the sacred word “marriage.” And the latest and most absurd: the mutilation known as transgenderism. All of which would have been unimaginable a handful of decades ago. But Chesterton imagined it. He prophesied it.

In the end, he says, the exaggeration of sex becomes sexlessness. We are no longer drawn to the bait on the hook. We are drawn to the hook itself.

The only debate, as Chesterton predicted, is not about what is evil but what evils are excusable.

The peril is real. The pitfalls. The falling into the pit. The danger is nothing less than damnation. But what is also real, exceedingly real, is the way out of that path to peril.

We can still turn things around.

But will we? Are we? Think about this. Abortion has lost its status as a national right and has become a local battle again – which we are losing at an incredible rate. What are we going to do about that? We can start by making the issue even more local. Even more local. It starts in our homes, where we nurture life. Family life. From there we spread the culture of life to our neighborhoods, then to our communities, to our cities, to our states. The culture has to change in order for the laws to change. But it has to start at the local level. The followers must become leaders.

I suggest that our role is not that of street corner preachers screaming the warning that the end is near (though even these serve their purpose for the few souls who happen to be on the street and who somehow respond and repent). We have to make the case for truth without the focus on condemnation, that is, we must present the good as invitingly as possible, not merely as bait but as the feast itself. We have something very good to offer. An alternative to sin.

Sin is slavery. Even though slaves want to be free, they enjoy the security of slavery. Freedom means responsibility. The slave has lost his responsibility. Responsibility is harder work than being told what to do and what to think and what to expect. But at a certain point the slave who is shown no dignity and respect realizes that he must at least respect himself. It is then that he sees that he wants to be free. Even if freedom is the harder road. . . .

Rebecca

7/30/2024 05:05:13 pm

I listened to a few moments. I expected lightning to strike---BUT GOD.... but God loves these delusional, deceived and deceiving people. I pray Jesus so radically saves them that they will feel that kind of lightning!

Born again

7/30/2024 07:50:58 pm

As witnessed in the woke anti-Christian Olympic opening ceremony, satan is running rampant on this earth. The same is true in this demonic denomination. Speak out people, pray. Christ wins in the end.

8/8/2024 02:16:45 pm

Leftist Marxist VP candidate Tim Walz had an article link on Citizen Free Press. The title basically said look at the leftist church he goes to. An ELCA Lutheran Church in liberal-sota immediately came to mind. Clicked the link and there it was… Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St Paul. No surprise. Thanks to this website for educating me.

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