(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.) My alma mater, Luther Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, recently brought in womanist preacher Denise Dunbar-Perkins. At the end of her sermon Reverend Dunbar-Perkins had the congregation stand in a circle as she led them in a strange exercise. I thought I had seen the strangest Luther chapel a few months ago when the first ELCA transgender pastor preached that Joseph's "coat of many colors" can also be translated "princess dress" and then prayed "Our Mother in Heaven..." But this latest feminist service urging the congregation to "receive the gifts of the pushy womb" is perhaps even stranger. I invite you to listen to two minutes of the below (start at minute 32). This is the kind of ridiculous heresy that results when we believe we are free to reject "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" language for God and invent our own images for God. This all started back in the 1990's with the "Reimagining God Conference" when Christian feminists from around the country gathered in Minneapolis. It was controversial back then and now it is being streamlined into Luther's chapel services. Luther Seminary was liberal back in 1979 when I graduated, but it still had a fair number of professors and administrators who would not have stood for this kind of strange worship at chapel. I wonder if any faculty today are questioning what is happening at Luther. Sincerely in Christ, Pastor Tom
4 Comments
Didaskalos
5/8/2018 05:55:42 am
It couldn't be plainer that the highest allegiance of ELCA feminist clergy is not to Jesus and His Word, but to feminism, whose chief credo is sexual libertinism and whose chief sacrament is abortion.
Reply
SemiPietistLutheran
5/9/2018 10:23:47 am
Serving currently in a very conservative congregation in an even more liberal denomination than the ELCA... , ... this is a sad trend of consumerist heresy. Went to a colleague's service where she ended her message with God is like us.... God is intersexed.... thus the transgendered are in the image of God.....
Reply
John
5/9/2018 01:45:35 pm
The prevailing wisdom is that this trend is consumerist, but I wonder. More are leaving than joining, congregations and schools are shutting, not starting. Across the aisle, all the old time religions are thriving. Maybe "pagan" is a better description than consumerist?
Reply
George
5/9/2018 06:55:30 pm
God is most certainly NOT like us. That is the conclusion of the atheistic left.
Reply
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Dan Skogen
Former ELCA seminary student and former ELCA member who is fed up with the ELCA's consistent mockery of God's Word. If you have been helped and blessed by Exposing the ELCA's ministry, please help us continue to proclaim the truth of God's Word to ELCA members who need to hear it.
Give online by clicking the "donate" button below: Categories
All
Archives
November 2024
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. - Ephesians 5:11
|