What’s Going on In ELCA Churches?

2/17/2017

It doesn't take much effort to find heretical and controversial things happening in ELCA churches. So let me show you just a few things I've found.

Would you like to be part of the “Feminine Sacred Circle” at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in North Hollywood, CA? Here's what that's about:

(see here)

Or you could be part of a Queer Virtue lecture taking place at ELCA pastor Clint Schnekloth's Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

(see here)

On the “Queer Virtue” book website it tells us “Authentic Christianity is and must be queer.” And one of the book reviews on the website is by Emily M.D. Scott, an ELCA pastor, who was a main speaker at the 2015 ELCA National Youth Gathering. She writes:

“A breath of fresh, queer, air…With vivacious smarts and a wicked sense of humor, Edman compels her readers to fully embrace our gloriously multifaceted God-given identities. If you’ve wondered if you can be fully queer and fully Christian, the answer is a resounding “yes,” and Edman will show you the way.'
—Emily M.D. Scott, Pastor, St. Lydia's -- A Dinner Church, Brooklyn, NY”
(see here)

Redeemer Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, MN devotes a page on their website to Black Lives Matter.

(see here)

And of course you have ELCA churches trumpeting their encouragement of sin.

Augustana Lutheran Church, Omaha, NE

St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in North Hollywood, CA, the church that has the “Feminine Sacred Circle,” also has a vast LGBTQ Ministry (see here)

3 Comments

Dave from Minnesota

2/18/2017 03:51:19 pm

Several Minneapolis-St Paul ELCA churches have rainbow flags outside and signs saying how welcoming they are to all. But these signs tell me they want hard-left liberals to come to their churches, but repel traditional Christians like me. As your post above shows, the point of no-return is long past and those attending ELCA will keep pushing that church farther and farther liberal.
When I first moved to the Twin Cities about 18 years ago, I went a few times to one of these churches....Gloria Dei on South Snelling. I wouldn't consider going there now for any reason. Also, they sponsored a bus to the women;s march in Washington last week. I wonder how many "pussy hats" were on that bus.

Didaskalos link

2/19/2017 07:29:06 am

"If you’ve wondered if you can be fully queer and fully Christian, the answer is a resounding 'yes,' . . ."

"Progressive Christian thinking"

It's as predictable as sunrise and sunset that ELCA apostates would get progressively louder and prouder in their trumpeting of let-it-all-hang-out sin. There's no more need to put on a facade of biblical Lutheranism, as ELCAnites sententiously tried to do when they hatched the first of their convention-vote rebellions against God.

Tim Challies' biblical indictment of pretend-pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber applies almost equally (probably minus the incessant look-at-me profanity) to a host of ELCA pretend pastors and pretend bishops. Substitute "they" for "she" and you've accurately captured a wide swath of the ELCA's ersatz shepherds.

“. . . And yet she [Bolz-Weber] boldly tells others how to live as Christians even while she is so obviously and braggingly deficient in godly character. See, somehow she equates transparency with suitability, as if her abundance of flaws, foibles, and outright sin serve as a résumé, as if they are evidence of godliness. But, biblically, nothing could be farther from the truth. This kind of transparency may masquerade as humility but is actually the very height of pride. She revels in the things God forbids and makes little of an office God holds sacred.

"Of course, her disregard for the office of pastor should probably not be a great surprise since the religion she describes bears little resemblance to Christianity, at least as the Bible describes it. And this, I suppose, is her point: She wants to recreate the Christian faith and make it palatable to the twenty-first-century culture. To do this she uses the Bible when and how it suits her, but without any consistency. She casts doubt on the miraculous and supernatural. She affirms homosexuality and transgenderism. She teaches a form of universalism. She outright denies all kinds of central Christian doctrines including, of course, Christ’s substitutionary sacrifice (which she mocks like this: “God gathers up all our sin, all our broken-ass junk, into God’s own self and transforms all that death into life. Jesus takes our crap and exchanges it for his blessedness.”). What remains in the end has only the barest, weakest, blandest hint of Christianity left.

"As I finished the book [Accidental Saints], I realized that I have read it before—or others just like it, at least. This is yet another in a long line of books meant to appeal to those who want to bear the name of Christ but without becoming like Christ. It’s not that Bolz-Weber doesn’t have any interesting or even helpful insights into life, into sin, and into human nature. It’s just that her brand of Christianity confuses worldliness and godliness. No wonder, then, that the eager masses are lapping it up. Her God calls us to himself but then leaves us to be whoever and whatever we want to be."

http://www.challies.com/book-reviews/accidental-saints

Sasha Kwapinski

2/22/2017 12:02:07 pm

Would support for "Black Lives Matter" include concern for all the Black lives that are aborted every year?

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