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ELCA Pastor Lashes Out in Sermon at Exposing the ELCA, Calls Us “Lutheran Version of the WestBoro Baptist Church”

8/29/2017

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Taking a page out of the liberal extremists’ playbook, an ELCA pastor in a sermon to her congregation said that Exposing the ELCA was the Lutheran version of the hateful, deranged WestBoro Baptist Church. You know, the people that are famous for carrying awful signs and protesting at military funerals.
 
Here is the back story. A couple weeks ago, Exposing the ELCA posted a blog titled, “The Most Bizarre Sermon I Have Ever Heard: An ELCA Pastor Celebrates Transgenderism.” (see here) It highlighted a sermon given by ELCA pastor Andrea Roske-Metcalfe. 

Days later Rev. Roske-Metcalft took to the pulpit of Grace Lutheran Church of Apple Valley, MN saying, 

​“Our congregation was featured this week on the blog of Exposing the ELCA. This group has been around for several years. They’re basically the Lutheran version of the WestBoro Baptist Church because they really only exist to hate other people. In this case, they exist, in particular, to hate the ELCA, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which is our denomination. Because we love too many people. Because our understanding of God is too expansive. You know, because we don’t think the LGBTQ people are sinning simply because of who they are. Because we celebrate all manor of gender identity and expression. Because we are interested in interfaith conversations. Because sometimes we call God “she.” Because Jesus wasn’t white. And because we believe that Black Lives Matter. Because we believe that, in order to, take the Bible seriously, we can’t possibly take it literally. Because not all of our pastors are heterosexual cisgender men…” (listen here)

Grace Lutheran Church also took to Facebook with this post:

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(If you have Facebook you can view the church's post, "likes," and comments here.)

This is certainly malicious rhetoric by the ELCA pastor, but much of what Rev. Roske-Metcalfe said is an indictment on the ELCA. What this all comes down to is that far-left radicals control the ELCA. They twist Scripture and ignore the rest. They advocate positions that go against God's Word and are harmful to the people they think they are supporting.

What you need to understand is that ELCA leadership does not respect conservative, Bible-believing Christians/members; in fact they loathe you. They put up with conservatives for their financial backing, for the power and influence a larger membership gives the ELCA and for your family and children that they hope to influence toward their worldly, anti-Biblical values and viewpoints.
 
If you are tired of the ELCA leftists:

- demonizing you for holding to the truth 
- calling you homophobes, bigots, Islamophobes, haters, transphobic, racist, white supremacists, xenophobes and misogynists
- lying about you
- destroying people’s faith and
- encouraging people to live out sinful, harmful lifestyles,

it is time to get your family out of their churches, stop funding them and stop giving them a larger voice in this world. Leave and find a God-honoring church.
 

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As you can see, Exposing the ELCA is on the front lines. Please pray for this ministry, that Exposing the ELCA will continue to make a difference in God's Kingdom. 

And if you would like to help Exposing the ELCA continue to reach people with the truth of God’s Word and the ways the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is misleading people and mocking God with their false-teaching, gifts to Exposing the ELCA can be made here.


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John Williams
8/30/2017 12:09:20 am

"Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." Matt 5:12

The ELCAnite sermonette and press release make one thing very clear: many of their laity are watching, reading, noticing, thinking, and asking questions. They are looking at sites like ExposingTheELCA, and others, for clarity. And it is causing enough of a stir, that the ELCAnites must try to squelch it. Like all leftists, the ELCAnite clergy can tolerate anything and everything -- except disagreement! How dare anyone condemn sin -- that's why they can’t possibly take the Bible literally -- in their very own words! How dare anyone question their ELCA-nonsense -- that's violence! -- don't dare worry about terrorism, there's no real violence there, no, violence is when anyone dares to disagree by means of rhetoric, no, to question is to harm -- in their very own words!

For anyone who came to this site as a result of the GLC-Reggie debacle, please take a look at the many categories of discussion topics at this site. You will not find hatred here. Instead, you will find what the site's name promises: exposure. Exposure of facts that the ELCA finds so damaging that the only damage control they can muster is to call it "hate." Well, the truth sounds like hate, to those who hate the truth.



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Didaskalos link
9/2/2017 09:29:15 am

"The message they proclaim is not good news. Like those heralding a new emperor as the coming of a god, they are worshiping at the altars of misplaced compassion, human approval, and appealing lies."
-- https://stream.org/good-news-good-true-evangelicals-nashville-statement/

The depth of willful self-deception in the ELCA is scary.

God: "Don't do this. It's a sin. It'll kill you. If you defy Me, ignore My Word, and keep doing it proudly and unrepentantly, you'll damn yourself for eternity."

ELCA: "We're proud of it. We're going to keep doing it. We had a commission 'study' it and ‘discover' it's not a sin. We know better now than the Bible, Martin Luther, and 2,000 years of orthodox Christendom."

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Didaskalos link
8/30/2017 06:44:41 am

Here are just a few reasons Martin Luther -- in his own words -- is included in Rev. Roske-Metcalft's defensive "the Lutheran version of the WestBoro Baptist Church" calumny.

1. "In the first part we shall consider which persons may enter into marriage with one another. In order to proceed aright let us direct our attention to Genesis 1 [:27], “So God created man . . . male and female he created them.” From this passage we may be assured that God divided mankind into two classes, namely, male and female, or a he and a she. This was so pleasing to him that he himself called it a good creation [Gen. 1:31]. Therefore, each one of us must have the kind of body God has created for us. I cannot make myself a woman, nor can you make yourself a man; we do not have that power. But we are exactly as he created us: I a man and you a woman. Moreover, he wills to have his excellent handiwork honored as his divine creation, and not despised. The man is not to despise or scoff at the woman or her body, nor the woman the man. But each should honor the other’s image and body as a divine and good creation that is well‑pleasing unto God himself." -- [ "The Estate of Marriage" - http://www.lutherdansk.dk/Web-Living%20as%20husband%20and%20wife/Living%20as%20husband%20and%20wife.htm ]

2. "..the heinous conduct of the people of Sodom ” [is] “extraordinary, inasmuch as they departed from the natural passion and longing of the male for the female, which is implanted into nature by God, and desired what is altogether contrary to nature. Whence comes this perversity? Undoubtedly from Satan, who after people have once turned away from the fear of God, so powerfully suppresses nature that he blots out the natural desire and stirs up a desire that is contrary to nature." (Luther’s Works, Vol. 3, 255)

3. "54. Here then we have these two, the faith and the Gospel, that these and nothing else are to be preached throughout Christendom. Let us now see who are to be the preachers and who the learners. The preachers are to be angels, that is, God's messengers, who are to lead a heavenly life, are to be constantly engaged with God's Word that they under no circumstances preach the doctrine of men. It is a most incongruous thing to be God's messenger and not to further God's message. Angelus means a messenger, and Luke calls him God's messenger (Angelus Domini). The message also is of more importance than the messenger's life. If he leads a wicked life he only injures himself, but if he brings a false message in the place of God's message, he leads astray and injures every one that hears him, and causes idolatry among the people in that they accept lies for the truth, honor men instead of God, and pray to the devil instead of to God.

55. There is no more terrible plague, misfortune or cause for distress upon earth than a preacher who does not preach God's Word; of whom, alas, the world today is full; and yet they think they are pious and do good when indeed their whole work is nothing but murdering souls, blaspheming God and setting up idolatry, so that it would be much better for them if they were robbers, murderers, and the worst scoundrels, for then they would know that they are doing wickedly. But now they go along under spiritual names and show, as priest, bishop, pope, and are at the same time ravening wolves in sheeps' clothing, and it would be well if no one ever heard their preaching." [ Martin Luther — Sermon for Christmas Day; Luke 2:1-14 http://www.trinitylutheranms.org/MartinLuther/MLSermons/Luke2_1_14.html ]

When will ELCA pastors and leaders stop pretending the Bible-overruling, God-defying, Luther-contradicting, law-unto-itself ELCA is Lutheran . . . or Christian?

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W from MN
8/31/2017 12:21:35 pm

Talk about hate filled comments coming from the some of the pulpits when anyone disagrees. Looks like some of the ELCA kings "are really not wearing any clothes" but their intolerant extreme opinions also seem to be supported by many of the ELCA folks in prominent leadership roles. Even though there are some very good candidates is it any wonder why seminaries are having financial problems with the very liberal ministers being churned out in too many cases!

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Dave from Minnesota
9/5/2017 03:48:02 pm

I'll ask it again here (rhetorically) since this is specifically about what I view as an "anything goes" ELCA congregation.

To the leaders and members of Grace Lutheran Church of Apple Valley Minnesota......is there a line that you will never cross, no matter what pop culture says? Will you put in writing that you will never support polygamy? Incestual relationships? Abortions used for sex selection? Euthanizing senior citizens? If the government tries to close down religious schools that are orthodox, would you stand by those schools?

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