Openly Gay Married Man Elected Bishop of ELCA's Southeastern Synod

Openly Gay Married Man Elected Bishop Of ELCA's Southeastern Synod

6/2/2019

Rev. Kevin Strickland was elected Sunday, June 2, 2019, to be Bishop of the Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). He is the second openly gay man to be elected bishop of one of the ELCA's 65 synods. ELCA churches in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee are part of the Southeastern Synod.

Previously, Rev. Kevin L. Strickland was the Assistant to the Presiding Bishop of the ELCA and Executive for Worship. He is married to another man.

Bishop-elect Strickland was recently featured in an article by ReconcilingWorks, a LGBT organization where he recounts:

"For many years, I felt like I was 'broken' as I fought the internal struggle to come out and say that I was gay and to not only do that but then to continue being able to serve as a pastor in this church. I felt shame, brokenness, sense of not being right. Then a dear friend and pastor, reminded me, I was exactly what God created and even in what may feel broken to me, God calls it beautiful. I now can claim that I am a beautifully and wonderfully created child of God who is gay. Being broken-open means I now live free as the person that God created me to be. In that broken-openness, there is such beauty." (See here)

In the ELCA, and world, it is common for people to say that "God made me gay." This is a lie. It diminishes who God is. God does not call sin beautiful. What is beautiful is God's grace and forgiveness in view of our sin.

The ELCA is in rapid descent into darkness, and this becomes more and more evident every week. They brazenly place their own view over that of God and His Word. God is calling His people out of this depraved denomination; if you are remaining, will you heed His call?

Before Rev. Strickland was elected Bishop of the Southeastern Synod, the ELCA's first homosexual bishop, Guy Erwin, tweeted:

Listening to my friend Kevin Strickland give his final speech before the Bishop’s election in the SE Synod. Tweeting—to try to stop crying. @SoCalSynod #sesassembly
— Bishop Guy Erwin (@BishopErwin) June 2, 2019

ELCA Synod Bishop Kevin Kanouse came out as a homosexual while he was bishop.

Below is Rev. Tom Brock's response to the ELCA election of Kevin Strickland:

5 Comments

James Young

6/2/2019 05:22:20 pm

Correction: he is "married" to another man, as that word has been redefined by the Supreme Court to pander to the radical deviancy lobby. He is not married in any Christian sense of that word.

Iōannēs

6/15/2019 12:19:19 pm

Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling. Now that the ELCA is celebrating PRIDE, we can see how they continue to stumble away from the Word. Whoever is of God, hears the word of God. It is truly sad that it can be so plainly stated, and yet so willfully ignored.

Didaskalos link

6/3/2019 07:08:23 am

"For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it." [Isaiah 3:9a]

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

. . ."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.

. . . "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."

John

6/4/2019 09:32:51 am

This is what happens when a denomination preaches self-righteousness = I am the measure of rightness. They might call it "beautifully and wonderfully created," "broken-open," "naked and unashamed," or any number of slogans, but it is basically egoism. Which leaves you with little to celebrate except "pride."
Which closes your congregations as they admit that the emperor has no clothes ("naked and unashamed," indeed!).

ELCAnites, it is bad and getting worse. Won't you repent?

6/10/2019 01:44:52 pm

Is it still worth praying for the ELCA? Is there anything worth saving?

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