Exposing the ELCA has introduced ELCA Rev. Lura Groen to you in the past. (see here) A couple weeks ago, Rev. Groen proudly posted, on her Facebook page, her delight that during Reconciling Works morning prayer time at the ELCA's Churchwide Assembly, they would be using a "Blessing" and liturgy she wrote.
Reconciling Works is an organization that has been pushing LGBT rights, approval, gay marriage, gay clergy and the blessing of homosexuality in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for a good number of years. Here is Rev. Groen's Facebook post: Here is ELCA pastor Lura Groen's "blessing": May the Mighty One dance Her fierce dance on all the walls of injustice. May the Strong, Proud Mama keep all Her babies safe. May the Femme of all Femmes paint us in beauty. May the Seductive One change our hearts. May the Love of the Universe wiggle Her wide hips at you, and wrap Her thighs around you. May the Promiscuous One make love to you, And may She rock your world. (see here) (Reconciling Works did not recite the 4th, 5th or 6th sentences.) This is blasphemous. "(T)he Promiscuous One make love to you," "wrap Her thighs around you." This is the direction of the ELCA. As more and more CINO's (Christian In Name Only) and false teachers graduate from ELCA seminaries, the denomination that is already rejecting much of Scripture will be increasingly championing doctrines of demons.
Here is a liturgy by ELCA pastor Groen called "a Liturgical Proclamation of Queer Holiness." It too was recited at the ELCA's Churchwide Assembly Reconciling Works morning prayer gathering:
My Beloved Queer Ones, (y)our lives are holy. (y)our lives are holy. (y)our dancing is holy. (y)our dancing is holy. (y)our protest is holy. (y)our protest is holy. (y)our grief is holy. (y)our grief is holy. (y)our rage is holy. (y)our rage is holy. (y)our community is holy. (y)our community is holy. (y)our gender presentations are holy. (y)our gender presentations are holy. (y)our bodies are holy. (y)our bodies are holy. (y)our sex is holy. (y)our sex is holy. (y)our love is holy. (y)our love is holy. (y)ou are holy. (y)ou are holy. We are holy. (see Rev. Groen's blog with this liturgy here) (The Reconciling Works speaker added a few lines to this liturgy. - Here is a video of the blessing and liturgy. The ELCA Bishop of the Southwest California Synod, Guy Erwin attended this prayer gathering and can be seen in the video below. The liturgy begins around the 5:10 minute mark) This is vile, crazy and a heresy that permeates the ELCA.
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Doug McClure
8/26/2016 12:24:00 pm
Here's what the Bible says about Christians In Name Only:
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Doug McClure
8/26/2016 02:15:12 pm
"Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate." (Titus 1:15)
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8/26/2016 02:31:07 pm
Pity the ELCA, which thinks it’s breaking new religious ground with its ever-expanding list of “progressive Christian” practices.
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Sherianne Caldwell
8/26/2016 03:15:54 pm
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this! So very beautiful. ELCA women clergy are the best!
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KATHERINE LARSEN
8/26/2016 04:12:59 pm
God Bless the ELCA. I guess there is no historical precedent for passionate merging with God in the Christian mystical tradition...
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Dakota
8/26/2016 10:20:42 pm
I trust you are either using sarcasm or are just trolling.
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Troubled Lutheran
8/26/2016 05:34:31 pm
What never seems to surprise me is the complete and utter contempt for Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. I don't understand the fascination with almost a narcissism of distorting the truth of The Greatest Story Ever Told: Jesus Christ Our Lord. But then the ELCA thinks that by catering to culture, it's answering the Gospel's mission.... All it is doing is alienating those who are hungry and thirsting for the real, TRUE Word of God... not this self pandering BS
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Wayne
8/26/2016 09:47:08 pm
May God forgive you, for you know not what you do. God has given you over to your desires and you don't even know it! Please consider this and seek God's forgiveness before it is too late!
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Pr. Jack
8/26/2016 09:53:31 pm
As long as the ELCA keeps ordaining these little wiccans with their vile and disgusting anti-Christian "thealogy," there is simply no hope for the ELCA--none! As an orthodox confessional pastor with years of experience, I could not find another call in the ELCA, yet "this church" bends of backwards for lesbian wiccans and sodomites. The bottom line is that any church that tolerates this heresy and blasphemy is not a part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. Faithful Lutheran Christians, get out of the ELCA!
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Doug McClure
8/27/2016 12:41:02 pm
Under the Old Testament law, prostitution and lechery could not be even remotely associated with the worship of God.
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E.M.
8/27/2016 02:20:50 pm
It's completely sad, disgusting and vile that this heresy in the ELCA continues. But God is sovereign and just, loving and merciful and He will deal with these false teachers and apostates in His own time.
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JS
8/27/2016 03:07:30 pm
This is not a "pastor.". I miss the days when every pastor seemed to me like only a few do now... Charles Stanley and John MacArthur come to mind. And I'm not that old. What the heck happened?
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Aj Robinson
8/27/2016 06:31:47 pm
Thanks for posting the video with this. I would not have believed this if there wasn't video proof. I'm...haunted.
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Sasha Kwapinski
8/29/2016 01:49:22 pm
Will this "proud mama" keep the unborn safe?
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Dakota
8/29/2016 07:56:46 pm
I couldn't help but notice this was presented in front of a garbage can.
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10/24/2016 07:05:37 pm
I belong to a conservative Lutheran denomination. I wish ELCA would not call themselves Lutheran. They are becoming too removed from solid Lutheran teaching. Enlightening creative insight should build from solid theology, not the mush I read from some ELCA theologians – theologians who seem to be trying to impress their listeners with novelty. A creative dancer needs a solid floor on which to dance. ELCA's floor is getting soft.
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Christina Pillado
4/8/2017 05:56:31 pm
Dear God, what next! There are no words to convey my disgust and horror at the path the ELCA has chosen to go down! My parents (Daddy was an LCA pastor in the 1950s and 1960s) are turning over in their graves! I would not be surprised, in the least, to hear that the ELCA is connected to Pizzagate, either!
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Ed
4/11/2017 01:55:25 pm
It would be better never to have been born, than to teach this non-Christian dun.
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