The Most Bizarre Sermon I Have Ever Heard: An ELCA Pastor Celebrates Transgenderism

7/25/2017

(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and twitter - here.)

Grace Lutheran Church of Apple Valley, Minnesota, is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In the below sermon, Pastor Roske-Metcalfe preaches about a woman in her congregation who is now a "man" named Reggie. The pastor says this woman's "authentic self" is now as a male. The pastor goes on--and on and on--about how to refer to this person. Reggie does not want to be referred to as "she" or "he". Reggie wants to be referred to as "they" and "them."

The ELCA voted in 2009 to ordain practicing homosexuals. They did not vote to ordain transgender pastors, but the ELCA leadership is doing it anyway.

Prior to this sermon, the strangest--and saddest--sermon I had ever read was sent to me by a woman at an ELCA congregation in northern Minnesota. It was her pastor's "coming out" sermon in which he told the church how God had led him to his homosexual partner. But the below is even worse. Prepare for 12 minutes of the strangest sermon you will ever hear.

Let us lovingly deal with people who experience gender confusion, life can really mess people up. But let us not add to their confusion by lying to them and telling them they are whatever they think they are. If God made you a male, you are a male, even if you think God made a mistake. Jesus said "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female?" (Matthew 19:4). Jesus does not add "or transgender, or bisexual, or lesbian or homosexual."

Sincerely in Christ,

Pastor Tom Brock
pastorsstudy.org

8 Comments

Didaskalos link

7/26/2017 07:19:20 am

Authorities whose truths the ELCA rejects:

1. Jesus: “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female?” (Matthew 19:4)

2. Martin Luther: "In the first part we shall consider which persons may enter into marriage with one another. In order to proceed aright let us direct our attention to Genesis 1 [:27], “So God created man . . . male and female he created them.” From this passage we may be assured that God divided mankind into two classes, namely, male and female, or a he and a she. This was so pleasing to him that he himself called it a good creation [Gen. 1:31]. Therefore, each one of us must have the kind of body God has created for us. I cannot make myself a woman, nor can you make yourself a man; we do not have that power. But we are exactly as he created us: I a man and you a woman. Moreover, he wills to have his excellent handiwork honored as his divine creation, and not despised. The man is not to despise or scoff at the woman or her body, nor the woman the man. But each should honor the other’s image and body as a divine and good creation that is well‑pleasing unto God himself." [ http://www.lutherdansk.dk/Web-Living%20as%20husband%20and%20wife/Living%20as%20husband%20and%20wife.htm ]

Non-authorities whose whims the ELCA kowtows to:

1. the Christ-rejecting world

Dave from Minnesota

7/26/2017 12:25:23 pm

I suffered through the entire thing. Besides the anti-Christian dogma, it’s just weird and goofy. It’s like the ELCA is being taken over by 19 year old gender studies majors from Evergreen College. If this was 15 years ago, you’d say it’s from some weird cult.

The question I always have for ELCA leaders……what line will you never cross? Polygamy? Incestual marriage? No. Its only a matter of time before you push those agenda’s on your remaining churches.

For about 20 years there was resistance to the pop-culture crowd, which helped put the brakes on some of the church's changes. As the remaining true Biblical Christians pass away or leave the ELCA, that will only accelerate the goofyness as that resistance is now all but gone.

7/31/2017 05:17:15 am

With sin-approving "friends" like ELCA pastors and bishops, who needs enemies?

"The friends we need would rather see us embarrassed by conviction than killed by sin." -- http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/we-need-friends-to-fight-sin

John

7/27/2017 09:53:20 am

I also suffered through it. No mention of Jesus Christ in it -- no, it was All About Reggie. And Reggie's Pronouns. And Reggie's Comfort. And of course, the few obligatory God-name-droppings to keep up the charade that it still qualifies as church. Yes, the show must go on, pay no attention to the heretic behind the curtain...

Sandy

7/30/2017 07:01:27 pm

I could barely make it through that horrible disgusting speech! How deceived these so-called pastors are and everyone who goes along with them.

7/31/2017 03:12:36 pm

I'd like to hear from a psychologist type person on who is attracted to becoming ELCA clergy. Is it social justice warriors who want to change the world? In their own image? Why do they take whatever the newest pop culture trend is and decide to change the church's doctrine to match? I'm not talking about worship service trends, but actually changing what the church believes in.

I asked the other day....what line won't the ELCA cross? Is there any? I'd like to go back to 1987 and ask Herbert Chilstrom what he things about....then list the various crazy initiatives the ELCA has promoted over the past few years.

Marjorie Boyd

8/5/2017 04:42:00 pm

This is just one of the reasons that when my ALC church became ELCA I left my church.

Dan link

1/28/2020 10:43:34 am

I attend an ELCA church. What I hear in Sunday School and “worship” is very saddening. But,I’ve decided to continue to attend as my mission field. It’s sad that people that attend the church never hear law and gospel preached.

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