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The ELCA's Continual, Relentless Pro-LGBTQ Message

8/24/2017

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If you are an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America member who believes Scripture, that homosexuality is a sin and that marriage is only to be between one man and one woman, then you are at odds with your denomination. You are the target of a propaganda effort by ELCA leadership to push their pro-homosexuality viewpoint on you and your family. The ELCA, by way of their institutions, publications and social media (among others) are bombarding people with their false, anti-scriptural, pro-LGBTQ view. Let me show you some examples. 

The ELCA magazine Living Lutheran wrote an article titled, "​Equal participants in the body of Christ: LGBTQ members find spiritual home in ELCA congregations." In the article you will find three pro-homosexual stories and one pro-transgender story. (see here)

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The ELCA, through Living Lutheran, also published this pro-homosexual article titled, "​A dad’s concern." (see here) It is written by an ELCA pastor. 

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The ELCA Gulf Coast Synod tweeted that "LGBTQIA people are good & holy & made in the image of God.” See below. 


LGBTQIA people are good & holy & made in the image of God. @lura_groen #tlgcs #ELCA #PulseShooting #PrayForOrlando pic.twitter.com/EknejS1rvB

— Gulf Coast Synod (@GulfCoastSynod) June 14, 2016
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Another article from the ELCA’s Living Lutheran website says, “We want to ensure that LGBT individuals are in the fabric of our church and that it is never questioned.” (see here)

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The ELCA's Metropolitan New York Synod published an article on their website about two of their synod churches participating in gay pride marches. They title the article "Pride: conversations and connections." (see here) 

The ELCA synod's article claims falsely, as so many in the denomination do, that the ELCA's social statement, "Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust," is “grounded in scripture and Lutheran theology.”
 
The article also says that a resolution was brought to the “. . . 2017 Synod Assembly that asks us to have deeper conversations with one another ‘that will seek to cultivate and nurture listening to one another’s stories, concerns, and fears, especially concerning issues of human sexuality and the call for full inclusion of all on the gender spectrum.’" (here is the link to this resolution)

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One month ago the presiding bishop in the ELCA wrote this moral and political social media post:

LGBTQ people serve our church and serve our country. I am grateful for their service.

— Bishop Eaton (@ELCABishopEaton) July 28, 2017

Then the ELCA Facebook page followed up with this today:

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​And here we have the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at the Metro D.C. Synod Assembly with a rainbow banner, a symbol of support for homosexuality, front and center:


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The ELCA Young Adults' Facebook page chimes in:


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The cover page of the June 2017 issue of Living Lutheran highlighted a teenager who won a contest with a doodle of ​"eight diverse teenagers lined up in an over-the-shoulder embrace. On their shirts were symbols of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, LGBT pride, gender nonconformity and disability rights." (see here, front page and page 17) 

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(Former) ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson made a video (below) where he talks about bullying of gay people for "being the people God created them to be."
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​The shot below sat on top of the page of an ELCA Facebook group that has almost 14,000 members:
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The red sign in the above picture declares, "​Queer Saints." 

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The founder and moderator of this 14,000 member ELCA Facebook group, Rev. Clint Schnekloth, wrote an article for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette saying, 
​“June is Gay Pride month, and I'm taking a moment to proclaim loudly and proudly how thankful I am for the increasing number of Christian faith communities who celebrate LGBTQ+ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer] lives, and who partner with them to deepen our shared Christian walk of discipleship.”

​He goes on, “LGBTQ+ people are leaders in our congregation, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, and in our wider denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. They serve on council, teach our Sunday school classes, are called as pastors and much more.” (see here)

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​Just a couple of weeks ago the ELCA's Lower Susquehanna Synod posted a page on their website detailing their becoming an RIC synod, which means they are accepting and supporting homosexuality, as well as LGBT participation in church leadership. The page included a number of videos and additional information in support of their message. (see here) 

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Below is a social media post by the ELCA's Sierra Pacific Synod in support of people marching in Gay Pride events: 
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Another Living Lutheran magazine article by the ELCA tells us:

"The (sic) can also be said of same-sex couples who are seeking acceptance in a congregational setting. All congregations are supposed to be welcoming, but there’s a difference between lip-service and genuine acceptance and hospitality. Eight years ago the ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted in support of LGBTQIA folks both as rostered leaders and members within the church body, yet how many of our congregations make a point of posting visible signs of welcome to this community? Better yet, how many congregations are willing to have a Pride Sunday in addition to Mother’s and Father’s Day celebrations?" (see here) 


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​The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, a seminary of the ELCA, posted this on their Facebook page: 

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Below is a response to an Exposing the ELCA post from Mike Rinehart, bishop of the ELCA's Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod. Notice his view of those with an accurate historical and biblical view of this issue.


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Here are a number of other Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Living Lutheran articles presenting homosexuality in a positive light:

  • It is a sign of welcome
 
  • Observations on homosexuality in the New Testament
 
  • ​Equal participant in the body of Christ: LGBTQ members find spiritual home in ELCA congregations
 
  • ​Living on a prayer: One man's cross-country journey in honor of his father

  • ​Extending and receiving welcome

  • ​There is a place for you here

  • All are welcome​

  • ​Campus ministry becomes place of welcome after election
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Here is another pro-homosexual article from the ELCA magazine Living Lutheran. As you can see below it was shared by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Living Lutheran Facebook pages:
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Link to the article here. 
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Friend to Exposing the ELCA, Rev. Tom Brock, recently wrote about the above ELCA article and shared his concern over the ELCA's pro-homosexual agenda. Here is what Pastor Brock wrote:
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No surprise here: Yet another ELCA article promoting gay pride.

Gus Barnes, Jr., a seminarian of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, writes a June 25th article for the Living Lutheran website, the official magazine of the ELCA. He writes:
 
"I am now back at Wartburg (Seminary); will marry my spouse, Steve, this summer; and will finish school by the first week of February. My faith is strong, knowing the challenges I may face in the future. My inner pride is carrying me through the journey to ordination....This pride flows through me, a gay man in an interracial relationship. This pride keeps me grounded in my faith daily..."
 
There has not been one article with a conservative viewpoint on homosexuality in "Living Lutheran", but there have been an abundance of articles like the above painting transgenderism and homosexuality in a positive light. In 2009 the ELCA agreement was to respect both conservatives and liberals on this issue. Living Lutheran has given no space to the traditional, Biblical point of view. The abundance of pro-gay and pro-transgender articles shows that Living Lutheran's leadership has an agenda and the powers that be in the ELCA are allowing them to push their agenda through the ELCA's national magazine.
 
Yet one more example of why members of the ELCA should leave this erring denomination and join a more biblical branch of Lutheranism. ELCA offering dollars help support Living Lutheran.
 
Sincerely in Christ,
Pastor Tom Brock


(See Pastor Brock's article here)
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Pastor Tom Brock had this to say in another blog:

“Around the country, ELCA churches are often found marching in some of these lewd parades. The ELCA has a practicing homosexual bishop in southwest California who has a 'husband' And last year the ELCA's executive for worship (a 'married' homosexual pastor) came out with official materials so that ELCA pastors can perform gay 'weddings.' The ELCA materials declare this blasphemy: 'God joins this celebration, pouring out the Holy Spirit to bless your marriage...' ELCA presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton called the materials ‘faithful.'"  (see here) 
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Below is a small taste of all the pro-gay messages happening from individual ELCA pastors and churches:

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Here is another:
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Next is the popular ELCA pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber's church:


Happy Pride pic.twitter.com/dmBxCw3TxW

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) June 18, 2017
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This ELCA Pastor tweets:

@JohnWisniewski visits @GSEquality to encourage our lobbying efforts on behalf of equality for #LGBTQ people in NJ. #advocacy #ELCA pic.twitter.com/wULjcG1z17

— Annemarie H Cook (@BoldLutheran) June 26, 2017

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Then you can read this newspaper article about a tiny ELCA church which mentions them being an RIC church here. 

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Lots of ELCA Lutherans marching in this Gay Pride parade:

A beautiful day yesterday at #cbuspride! So joyful to be with the churches of the #elca and #reconcilingworks here in Columbus. There is a place for you here! #acceptingall #trinitylutheranseminary

A post shared by Kriss Buss (@matt25_40) on Jun 18, 2017 at 1:14pm PDT

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This ELCA church makes a public witness by marching in a gay pride parade and posting their pictures for the world to see. (see here and below)



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How sad and evil that ELCA members, both straight and those struggling with same-sex desires, are being deceived and bombarded by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, pushing their pro-LGBT agenda. An agenda that stands in direct opposition to God and His Word. 

3 Comments
Didaskalos link
8/25/2017 05:53:09 am

Martin Luther, were he alive today, would have long since denounced and departed from the ELCA. Luther forthrightly called homosexuality the sin the Bible says it is: "Whence comes this perversity? Undoubtedly from Satan, who after people have once turned away from the fear of God, so powerfully suppresses nature that he blots out the natural desire and stirs up a desire that is contrary to nature." [ http://apprising.org/2009/08/30/martin-luther-on-homosexuality/ ]

Unrepented of, homosexuality is eternally deadly. John Piper writes:

. . . "Lie: “. . . the practice of sodomy is delightful, not deadly.” The second word in this sentence that may be twisted is “practice.” When the Bible links “men who practice homosexuality” with “thieves,” and says that neither will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9–10), it is important to note two crucial things.

"One is that the warning is not sounded against those who are tempted to steal, but who practice stealing — thieves. Similarly, the warning is sounded not against those who are tempted to practice homosexuality, but against those who actually do practice it. To be sure, there are all kinds of inward heart-lusts that are sinful, but the focus here is on the practice.

"The other crucial thing to see is that there is salvation. The church is made up of forgiven sinners who make war on their soul-destroying sins. “Such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:11).

"In other words, not all practice of sin excludes from the kingdom of God. “All sins will be forgiven the children of man” (Mark 3:28). The sins that exclude from heaven are the sins we keep on pursuing without regarding them as God-dishonoring, and without seeking forgiveness through Jesus, and without making war on them as the enemies of our souls."

-- "Satan and Sodomy: Understated and Inflammatory Words" http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/satan-and-sodomy

As Dan's article amply and tragically proves, the ELCA is now sold out to promote a sin that leads to eternal damnation. There is nothing Christian about a denomination that defies God, overrules His Word, and leads its people away from the kingdom of heaven. There is no reason to stay in such a denomination, as S. M. Hutchens writes:

LEAVING BEHIND

"I do not believe it is as difficult to decide when to leave corrupted religious bodies as those who stay in them often make it appear. Typically, part of the official confession or constitution — to which all members by simple virtue of their membership automatically become party — is altered to oppose the faith at a single meeting or convention or ballot or publication. The point at which that is done — at which a person can no longer as a Christian subscribe to the entirety of the group’s stated beliefs or practice — is the point at which leave must be taken. If it is not, the sea of ambiguity on the conditions of departure immediately becomes bottomless, and no reason to withdraw except the ridiculous “some-further-outrage-or-other-will-be-the-last-straw” is any longer possible.

"In cases where the noxious change is not formally instituted, it is not much more difficult to make the decision. When it is clear to honest observation that an Alteration of Desolation has become generally tolerated or accepted, it is time to withdraw.”

— S. M. Hutchens (Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, May/June 2014)

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John
8/25/2017 02:27:14 pm

Eight years later, it is clear that the whole lump has been leavened.
The ELCA now lifts high more sinbow flags than crosses -- notice that the sinbow has only six letters and colors, but the rainbow has seven letters and colors. And notice that the RIC "cross" is really a pagan ankh. Yes, those were deliberate choices by the designers.

I just look forward to the day when they follow Thrivent's example, and drop the term "Lutheran" from their name.

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James Young
8/26/2017 10:56:54 am

We got out just in time....

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