ELCA Lutherans Nationally Pay For Abortion, But Not Crisis Pregnancy Centers

8/24/2015

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

The ELCA officially and nationally does not give money to crisis pregnancy centers which help women bring their babies to term. Individual ELCA congregations are free to do so, but nationally the church does not.

What does the ELCA nationally pay for? Abortion, for any reason (and no reason), in its health care plan for pastors and their families. The ELCA health care plan is funded by offering dollars. That's right, your offering dollars at work, killing unborn children.

Years ago when I was still an ELCA Lutheran, I sent out a letter to all 11,000 congregations of the ELCA telling them about the ELCA abortion payments. I received a letter, I think from a pastor's wife, who told me she was so grateful the ELCA "was there" to pay for her 16-year-old daughter's abortion.

If ever the Old Testament word "Ichabod" ("the glory has departed" from I Samuel 4:21) applies, it does to the fact that a number of liberal, mainline Protestant denominations pay for abortion with offering dollars. The days of child sacrifice are back.

In Jesus our Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock

2 Comments

Didaskalos link

8/25/2015 05:45:19 am

Good news: as the ELCA continues trying to curry favor with the Christ-rejecting world by funding abortion, other churches are awakening to the biblical mandate to stand in the gap for God’s preborn babies. [ https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+24%3A11-12&version=ESV }

“. . .My own local parish, which is heavily engaged in opposing human trafficking and slavery, is not mobilized on confronting abortion. But at Saturday’s protest [against Planned Parenthood], I met up with half a dozen others from my congregation, plus my diocesan bishop, who has been tireless in his advocacy for the sanctity of human life. As one of my friends shared, “I’ve never protested anything before now” – but this scandal had raised her awareness of the issue and brought her out onto the sidewalk with us that morning.

"This Sunday during the prayers of the people, my parish prayed for “all of those who are abused, trafficked and aborted” – the first time in six years that I have heard the “A” word uttered there.

"I’m grateful for our parish work at the food bank, the shelter for abused women and partnering to end unjust incarceration or human slavery abroad. Every part of the body of Christ works to advance the Gospel in the world. Assisting women and children endangered by the practice of abortion is one part of this."

https://juicyecumenism.com/2015/08/24/nationwide-protest-against-planned-parenthood-draws-tens-of-thousands/

Didaskalos

8/26/2015 01:29:51 am

Psalm 106:37 -- "They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons."

Is the abortion-condoning, abortion-funding ELCA comfortable with keeping this company?

"Meet the New Public Face of Abortion-on-Demand: Satanists"
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422999/satanist-abortion-advocates?target=author&tid=1048

"One story is interesting, two stories even more so. But six stories are a trend, in this case a particularly appropriate one: Satanists are become a leading public voice for abortion rights. In their mockery of Christianity they reveal the dark heart of abortion-on-demand: the radical worship of self. . . .

"The Satanists adhere to such edifying statements of principle as “Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!” and “Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!” They also declare that man is “just another animal.” It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate set of doctrines for the rutting life of the sexual revolution, where restraint is evil, physical experience is king, and people are simply sentient mammals trying to get the best out of life. A baby is thus no more sacred — and often less — than any other animal. Just ask Cecil the Lion.

". . . A person who is willing to kill another person for the sake of preserving their own prosperity or emotional health is declaring that their life is supreme — their existence is at the center of all things. This is the core of Satanist theology. So when Satanists declare their creeds, they strike uncomfortably close to the rotten core of the abortion-rights regime."

And the rotten core of denominations that have installed themselves as judges over the Bible.

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