Upcoming ELCA Youth Gathering Promotes Homosexuality to Youth

6/15/2014

By Pastor Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. Facebook users can follow Pastor Brock by going here and twitter users here.

The ELCA's "Western States Youth Gathering" begins June 27 in Thousand Oaks California. One of the speakers is Bishop Guy Irwin, the ELCA's first practicing homosexual bishop. One of the workshops offered to the youth is the following (I know what LGBT means, but what now is LGBTQQIAA+? The list of "sexualities" just gets stranger):

TITLE: LGBTQQIAA+ in the Lutheran Community...

PRESENTER: Laura Shkouratoff and Rev. Craig Minich

DESCRIPTION: In order to create a healthy, non-judgmental environment, we aim to lead a youth focused discussion about LGBT inclusion in the ELCA Lutheran denomination. Using multimedia resources, we will get an overview of LGBTQQIAA+....

Please pray that some youth and adults have the courage to speak out against this sinful craziness.

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Didaskalos link

6/16/2014 12:14:31 am

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)

Stand Firm: Or End Up on the Wrong Side of Eschatology
by Anthony Esolen

. . . Demands of the New Religion

Now let us be quite clear. We have not chosen this fight. The new religion has come to us, and it demands total submission. It demands that we cease to worship God, and that we cease to tell the truth. We have come to the cleft in the road, what Lewis called the great divorce. God will, if we allow him, heal our evil ways; Jesus came to call sinners. But God can no more accept evil in his household than he can cease to be God. He is holy. He will wash our grubby robes white in his blood, but Truth cannot lie. He cannot declare the unclean to be clean. He can only make it clean by his grace.

The new religion of sex requires us to take down the Cross and erect something else. We must not do so. It requires us to abandon our fellow men to lusts that destroy the common good, as even sociologists, often the slow kids on the block, have begun to see. We must not do so. It requires us to subject our bodies to the phantasms of homeless postmodern man. We must not do so. It requires us to avert our eyes as our little brothers and sisters are dismembered. We must not do so. It requires us to wink as the minds of children are subjected to confusion in order to ratify the choices of adults. We must not do so. It requires us to subordinate political liberty to sexual license. We must not do so.

It requires us to spit upon the Cross, to sink our fingers in the blood of innocent children, to harden our hearts against the crushed lives of brothers and sisters who learn to their dismay that Priapus is a stupid and stupefying idol. It requires us to like ourselves rather than love our neighbors. It requires us to tell a deadly lie.

Raise One Sword

We must not do so. We shall not do so. Truth is truth to the end of time. Even if the battle appears lost, let each Christian raise one sword at least against the lie. Even if the fight is fierce, the warfare long, let each Christian remember that our Captain triumphed in and through the hour of his utter defeat upon Calvary. We set our faces like flint. While there is breath in our lungs and blood in our hearts, we will not cease to tell the truth, and we will not bend one inch in homage to the idol.

The Lord does not require that we win. He requires that we be steadfast. The battle is not ours but his. Yet let us not suppose that we are doomed to lose this fight. The gates of hell are not iron; the gates of hell are straw. For a vanguard has gone before us that our opponents cannot see, whose very existence they do not suspect. It is that great cloud of witnesses—and they are armed in the full array of God. •

Will Rheiner

6/16/2014 09:54:37 am

In the unlikely event that any ELCA member would have the intelligence or the strength of character to say "Enough is enough, we're leaving," his slippery pastor already has a plan. He will say "Oh no, wait, at this very moment I have a friend [or cousin or something] who is introducing a [non-binding] resolution [with no chance of succeeding], asking the ELCA to reconsider its position on ... [whatever the reason you're leaving]." If the readers think that's just my cynical imagination, read the comment by "lutheranpastor" at http://thesheepdogsspot.blogspot.com/2013/07/sinister-minister.html

6/17/2014 03:25:27 am

Chances are, any Bible-honoring Christian and confessional Lutheran ready to bolt the ELCA would have a long list of reasons for doing so. His/her answer to the blandishments of the wolf in pastor's clothing should be, "Pastor, I'm biblically commanded not to be part of a church that abets damnation rather than salvation. Tell you what: I'll stop propping up the heretical ELCA, leave your church to go to a confessional Christian church, and stay there until the ELCA decides to repent, honor the Bible, and follow the Lord of the Church. When . . . if . . . that ever happens, call me about the possibility of my returning. . . to a church you're not pastoring."

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