“The Spirit moved” to get him elected claims new practicing homosexual ELCA bishop

5/7/2024

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

Bryan Penman is the newly elected bishop of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has a male partner and an adopted child. Penman says this about his election:

“So the spirit moved today, and I have a new call.
I stand on the strength of thousands who have helped me say yes to this call and who have paved the way in the church against the odds. Soli deo gloria.”

As a person who has personally struggled with same-sex attraction most of my life, I abstain from this behavior for the sake of Christ and my eternal soul (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). The Bible teaches that homosexual behavior is sin (see my article “What does the Bible say about homosexuality?” at pastorsstudy.org). Jesus taught us to deny ourselves, take up our cross daily and follow Him. Instead today in the ELCA people are taught to affirm homosexuality and transgenderism. This was done to 31,000 teenagers at the ELCA’s national Teen Gathering.

The homosexual bishop claims the Holy Spirit is the one who “moved” to get him elected. This, to me, is much too close to the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.

In Jesus the only Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock

P.S. If you struggle with same-sex attraction, go to restoredhopenetwork.org and see resources and a possible support group in your area

2 Comments

Didaskalos link

5/7/2024 08:11:53 pm

Martin Luther, who would have been a pariah in the ELCA, warns against having anything to do with apostate hirelings who promote sin and even impenitently model it:
[Gen. 19:24-5 --“Arrogant and stubborn people despise the Word of God and laugh at well-intentioned words of caution…We must guard against this false teaching. It’s not enough for these people to bring destruction on themselves. They intend to drag us down with them. Like the people of Sodom, they don’t realize that their sins will soon be punished.”(LW, 3:239)

The Anthropological Lie of "Same-Sex Marriage"
-- https://christoverall.com/article/concise/the-anthropological-lie-of-same-sex-marriage/

[ . . .]As Scripture is the Christian’s highest authority, that alone would suffice to explain the prohibition of homosexuality and same-sex “marriage.” . . .

First, homosexuality is an antithesis to the good of marriage and family life since it is oriented toward neither of these. Homosexual couplings are by nature non-generative and thus non-marital by design. When same sex couples pursue children, they are pursuing them as a reality extrinsic to what their relationship really is: fruitless. . . .Homosexuality is thus inherently sterilized sex by nature at odds with the body and sexuality’s essential purpose—procreation.

Second, homosexuality dishonors the body’s design by violating the organization of the body as a reproductive structure. As J. Budziszewski writes, “when a man puts the part of himself that represents new life into the cavity of another man that represents decay and expulsion, at the most basic of all possible levels he is saying ‘Life, be swallowed in death.’”[J. Budziszewski, What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2011), 93.] Such a stark statement vividly captures the moral repugnance of homosexual sodomy that Paul echoes in Romans 1:24–27.

Third, following from the previous statement, homosexuality is a repudiation of creation order and the generativity that is required for society’s continuation. It represents the apotheosis or culmination of an inverted creation mandate, where instead of fruitful sex meant to serve creation, sex is turned back toward the service of the self alone. Homosexuality and same-sex “marriage” do not serve the common good and in fact frustrate its fulfillment by teaching falsehood regarding what counts as human flourishing. Children in these arrangements are commodities trafficked by a regulatory regime that denies the child their natural right to their mother or father.

Fourth and relatedly, homosexuality is an idolatrous self-worship that collapses creational distinctions for the disordered love of similarly-sexed persons instead of love being directed toward “the other.”

Fifth, Scripture speaks condemningly of every instance of homosexuality within its pages (See for example, Gen. 19:1–13; Lev. 18:22; Lev 20:13; Rom. 1:18–32; 1 Cor. 6:9–11; 1 Tim. 1:8–11; Jude 1:7). Even if reason and logic were not available to confirm the problem with homosexuality, Scripture’s prohibition would be sufficient to justify its condemnation. And critically, such prohibitions are not clobber texts, picked at random. Rather, the whole tenor of Scripture frames marriage as an institution between man and woman. This is true in the beginning with Adam and Eve, in the Law of Moses, or in culmination of marriage—the union of Christ and his bride, the Church.

Pressing the point further, Scripture affirms the natural law’s evaluation of homosexuality as a misuse of the body. In Romans 1:26, Paul specifically identifies the fruitlessness of sodomy as “contrary to nature.” . . .

[continued: https://christoverall.com/article/concise/the-anthropological-lie-of-same-sex-marriage/ ]

Born again

5/8/2024 01:22:59 pm

It was a spirit that moved, but definitely not the Holy Spirit. Jonathan Cahn talks about these spirits in his recent book. Evil spirits.

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