ELCA Pastor Announces He Will Preach Against Scripture

6/19/2023

An ELCA pastor is publicly stating that he is going to preach "against" the Word of God at his church service. The only surprise here is that he is admitting it.

ELCA pastor Clint Schnekloth writes, "this Sunday I plan to preach AGAINST the text. I do so in solidarity with the millions around the world who have been the targets of this non-reciprocal and colonial discipling."

The Biblical text for Rev. Schnekloth's "speech" is from Matthew 28:16-20.

You can find this post on Rev. Schnekloth's Facebook page here.

5 Comments

Didaskalos link

6/20/2023 08:36:18 am

More "Hath God said?" from the ELCA. Translation of the ELCAspeak equivocation "I think it is likely these verses are not original to Matthew but the addition of a redactor" : "We in the ELCA will cheerfully bowdlerize and ignore any part of the Bible that offends the secular world, the adherents of religions that cannot save anyone, and our fellow heretics in universalism-preaching 'progressive' churches."

And Jesus still says, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. . . If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels." [John 14:6; Luke 9:26]

Robert Benne -- former Professor of Religion and Chair of the Religion and Philosophy Department at Roanoke College, and former ELCA member [ see "ELCA Hits Bottom" -- https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/10/elca-hits-bottom ] -- wrote of the ELCA:

"Keeping the Main Things the Main Things"
-- https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/08/keeping-the-main-things-the-main-things
[…] "The final main thing I wish to address is evangelism. I will never forget a lecture I once heard by a former director of Global Missions for the Evangelical Church of America, to which I used to belong. In her lecture, she recounted the sins—mostly regarding “colonialism”—of previous generations of missionaries. After listing each sin, she led a chorus of new bureaucrats in chanting: Never again, never again. Soon after that meeting, the ELCA formally gave up pioneer missionary work (“pioneer” missions being missions to those who have never heard the gospel) in favor of “accompaniment,” or helping already established churches in other countries. Instead of evangelizing those of other religions, we were to dialogue with them.

I am not against accompaniment or respectful dialogue; but I find it shocking that a church would forswear pioneer evangelism—brazenly “dismissing the Great Commission as a symbol of the past,” as my old friend Jim Scherer put it. The Great Commission is the command of Jesus himself.

The faithful still support pioneer missionaries at home and abroad; I am proud that my own church body, the North American Lutheran Church, does so. But make no mistake: These ventures will continue to be attacked in the future. According to our culture, evangelism—in other words, acting upon the conviction that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life—does not honor diversity, inclusivity, or equity.

The world today is relentlessly attacking the faith on three particular fronts: the Christian teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, the Christian commitment to the sanctity of life, and the Christian duty to evangelize the nations. These are core commitments of Christian faith and life. They are main things. Let us keep them main things."

Rebecca

6/22/2023 01:50:14 pm

My God, my God, what does it take to wake these people up? Why become an elca pastor if they hate it all so much!

Born again

6/23/2023 08:46:51 pm

Preaching against scripture. More proof ELCA are a bunch of leftist operatives. If I were him I would be very concerned about my place in eternity and repent now.

Bob

6/26/2023 08:45:45 am

This guy doesn't care. He's an admitted commie

Bryan

6/29/2023 03:00:47 pm

What continue the charade. Be an atheist and cease and desist pretending to be a Christian pastor.

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