(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and twitter - here.)
I just read the current issue of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's official magazine. There are three letters to the editor responding to the magazine's recent glowing article on the ordination of the ELCA's first transgender pastor. All three letters are on the "pro-gay" side. Perhaps there were people who wrote sharing disagreement over this latest tragedy in the ELCA and perhaps the editors did not choose to print them. On the other hand, the one place (often the only place) one can find a conservative opinion in The Lutheran is in the Letters to the Editor section. I'm guessing here, but perhaps no one wrote to complain about the ELCA's endorsement of transgender clergy. If you know the history of The Lutheran magazine, it has been liberal for a long, long time. And its subscription rate has dropped hugely over the years. I am guessing that many of the conservatives who would have once written in have long since cancelled their subscription. When the ELCA ordains a transgender pastor and no one complains, wow, have things gone wrong. When I pray for the Church these days, I pray that those churches which are heretical will repent. I also pray that those churches which refuse to repent will die. I pray the people in those churches will be moved into good, Biblical churches. This indeed is happening. The growing churches in America are the Bible-based, often non-denominational, churches. And the churches which are dying are the ones which have abandoned the authority of Scripture to embrace homosexual and transgender pastors, universalism, de-sexing God language, and lessening of missions (the ELCA, United Church of Christ, Episcopal Church in America, Presbyterian Church USA). Please pray for Christ's Church today, that the Lord would grow the churches which honor Him and shrink those which do not. In Jesus our Savior, Pastor Tom Brock pastorsstudy.org
4 Comments
Martin Schneider
11/14/2015 08:19:22 pm
Didn't the "Lutheran" magazine several months ago state that they were going to limit the number of "contrary" letters because they were divisive?
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Marcia Taylor
11/16/2015 02:13:56 pm
I'm now happily Southern Baptist after being Lutheran for 64 years. In fact my family was Lutheran all the way back to Germany having emigrated here in 1765. I used to get "The Lutheran" magazine but found I was angry and upset by page 3 of each issue because of its liberal propaganda.
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David
11/16/2015 02:25:53 pm
Why didn't you go to the LCMS or even NALC or LCMC or WELS?
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Marcia Taylor
11/16/2015 04:07:29 pm
I am in southeast PA. No WELS, NALC, LCMC anywhere near me. There is a LCMS about 10 miles away but it only has 50 members and doesn't seem to have much energy. This is ELCA territory! Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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