Gay Man Elected Bishop of the ELCA's New England Synod

6/8/2024

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has elected it's third homosexual bishop this year. The ELCA has a total of six practicing homosexuals who currently are bishops. (likely to grow in number this summer)

ELCA pastor Nathan Pipho was elected bishop of the New England Synod. He is gay, as he explains in an article he wrote,

"It was the saints at Good Shepherd, North Quincy, who took a chance on a pastoral candidate who was gay. This was seven years before the 2009 Churchwide Assembly lifted prohibitions on partnered LGBT persons serving as ordained ministers. It also coincided with the height of the clergy sexual abuse crisis that was hitting the Archdiocese of Boston at the time. Some of my friends counseled me this was not the best time for me to be open with them about my sexuality, that it was none of their business, that I should stay in the closet …but I knew for the sake of authentic witness I needed to be open." (See here)

Rev. Nathan Pipho is a "...past chair of the New England Synod Team for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Inclusion." (See here)

Since we are talking about Bishop-Elect Pipho, here is his position on a controversial transgender topic:

"Earlier this year, the Charlotte City Council passed an ordinance that affirmed the right of transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their gender identity. It was right and fair." (See here)

See photo here - https://www.masslive.com/galleries/TDQWQH3E3BDT3MOAXKH4J34Z2U/

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6/8/2024 03:01:25 am

Not a few of the ELCA’s clerical flacks for sexual sin spend huge chunks of their public lives playing the victim, excoriating confessional Christians who, esteeming and heeding God's Word, won’t affirm and celebrate the sins of the flesh that ELCA voluptuaries are so proud of. As the Apostle Peter puts it, “...they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same excesses of debauchery, and they slander you, but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.” [1 Peter 4:3-4]

Martin Luther sounds the same biblical warning:
Luther on Gal. 5:16 — “Persisting in sin is disastrous...Those who obey the sinful nature and continue to gratify its desires should know that they don’t belong to Christ. Even though people may label themselves with the name ‘Christian,’ they are only deceiving themselves.” (LW, 27:80)

Luther on Mark 4:15—“Satan keeps on tempting people to commit sexual sins and other terrible crimes because he doesn’t want people to believe in what God says and does. But the church and God’s people should regard Satan’s attacks on God’s Word and work as especially dangerous…Letting go of God’s Word is the root of all temptations.”(LW, 1:146)

Many ELCA leaders and parishioners are making an eternally disastrous choice to live impenitently in sin. It’s time they realize that Jesus’ Church will never join them or affirm them in their sins.

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

. . .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.
[. . .]
The Church never can and never will give satisfaction—and the homosexualist knows it, for he knows the words against him are ineradicable—to the declared and impenitent homosexual, the person who, through an act of the vermiculate will, has identified his person with a sin, whether he demands acceptance of his sin through "love," or vindication through identification of his perceived enemies as bigots. Whether he presents himself as an object of love or indignation, what he demands in either case is acceptance not of the person, but of the sin-bound and sin-defined person. He demands the declaration of spiritual authority that there is nothing objectively disordered about this binding of man to sin, and assurance that this monstrous amalgam can indeed enter the kingdom of heaven. This can never happen among Christians until they abandon Christianity, which is at war with every sin, and whose indelible constitution places all perversions of the perfect man at the muzzle of its canons. •

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Gay Man Elected Bishop of the ELCA's New England Synod

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