Transgender Pastor to Speak at ELCA's Youth Ministry Extravaganza

12/27/2016

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

This conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will feature ELCA Pastor Asher O'Callaghan. This is a woman who presents herself as a man and is the first transgender person to be ordained through the regular ELCA ordination process.

It is tragic to see the ELCA elevate sexual confusion to this level.

In Jesus our Savior,

Pastor Tom Brock
Pastorsstudy.org

Here is how the ELCA conference describes her:

Before becoming a Lutheran pastor, Asher fancied himself spiritual but not religious. He thought he was done with organized religion after growing up transgender and bisexual in a fundamentalist church. But then he stumbled into a church called House For All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado where God messed up all his plans. There he heard an invitation he couldn’t help but share. From Christ’s open table he heard: “Behold who you are. Become what you receive.” Becoming what he’s received has led him to earn a Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary, to pastor a small mountain congregation called Zion Lutheran Church in Idaho Springs, Colorado and now to serve as Program Director of Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries.

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5 Comments

Didaskalos link

12/28/2016 08:05:48 am

In one Biblically grounded paragraph, Martin Luther destroys both of the ELCA's favorite God-defying sexual apostasies:

"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."

-- Martin Luther: "Living as Husband and Wife" (Vom Ehelichen Leben. WA 10 II, 275-305)

Curt

12/28/2016 01:57:17 pm

Is this the 2018 national conference in Texas he's referring to? That's scary.

Dan Skogen

12/29/2016 04:07:18 pm

I believe this is a 2017 conference in Louisville.

June link

1/3/2017 08:11:24 am

Does this really need to be said to persons of faith & of the cloth?
What would Jesus have us do with gays and transgender persons?

7/10/2017 06:19:01 pm

Here's a thought June, explain to them what God says in the Bible. What God wants from us and why we are to put HIM first not our own desires. Explain that we can be forgiven and accepted by Jesus shed blood if we accept HIM and ''go and sin no more''. Maybe a good idea to also touch on what happens to those who choose not to accept Jesus as Lord..we will all die and death is not the end.

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