ELCA Synod Announces "Reconciling Sexuality Week" to Be Held at ELCA Seminary

ELCA Synod Announces 'Reconciling Sexuality Week' to Be Held At ELCA Seminary

6/14/2019

The North Carolina Synod of the ELCA sent out their newsletter March 5, 2019. It reveals a lot about the synod and where it stands on LGBTQ issues.

One section of the synod newsletter announced Reconciling Sexuality Week, which will be held at the ELCA's Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (LTSS). See below.

Additionally, the North Carolina synod shared an article titled, "In this to the end," which speaks to the recent vote by the Methodist Church on gay marriage. The synod email reprinted part of the article which states, "'We're in this to the end,' sang LGBTQ United Methodists and their allies. They prayed. They hugged. They pulled out more chairs as people packed a worship service hosted by the LGBTQ-affirming Love Your Neighbor Coalition on Wednesday morning (Feb. 27) in a meeting room at the Holiday Inn, a day after a three-year-long push to make their church more inclusive had been blocked. Many at the worship service committed to staying in a denomination that voted Tuesday (Feb. 26) to reiterate language in the Book of Discipline, its rulebook, saying LGBTQ people could not marry or be ordained in its churches."

See here

The synod also gave this invitation, "Join us for Theology on Tap weekend" for a "weekend of craft brews."

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Didaskalos link

6/16/2019 06:09:06 am

"This [Reconciling Sexuality Week] will . . . [provide] attendees with the tools, dialogue and theology to implement good pastoral care."

ELCAspeak translation: Too many of our bumpkins in the pews are still not buying the get-cozy-with-sexual-sin apostasy we're peddling. We have to find sneakier ways of inveigling these hayseeds into swallowing our doctrines of demons.

"'We're in this to the end,' sang LGBTQ United Methodists and their allies."

If they refuse God's kindness that leads to repentance, the end will be eternally bleak.

". . . In 1 Corinthians 6, St. Paul gives vital clarification on a subject where there is much foggy thinking among those who ask questions like, 'What should the Church's approach to homosexual Christians be?' The apostolic answer is that there is no such thing as a homosexual Christian. There are brethren who struggle with various temptations, to be sure, and may on occasion fall to them before rising again. But believers who resist homosexual lust are not 'homosexuals.' They are just Christians, as are the rest of us with our own besetting sins.

". . . Given this apostolic definition, however, we cannot—we dare not—say there is any such thing as a 'gay (or lesbian, etc.) Christian,' for the Christian by definition has been cleansed of his homosexuality. He cannot regard himself as a homosexual—or idolater, or thief, or drunkard—nor can the Church affirm him, or the various acts associated with the old vice, as such.

There is no 'homosexual voice within the Church,' for the homosexual's conversion entails a choice—This, or That—the sin, or the Faith. He cannot have both, nor can the Church in any way accommodate the sin from which he has been cleansed. It is wholly and actively and vehemently against it as a destroyer of the souls it has been called to save. It labors among the saints only in the accomplishment of what has already been done in Christ: cleansing, sanctification, and justification in the Name of the Lord."

'Just Christians' -- https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=26-04-003-e

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