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Wrong Way Rimbo: ELCA Bishop To Officiate Same-Sex Wedding

3/20/2014

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ELCA Bishop Robert Alan Rimbo of the Metropolitan New York Synod announced last week that he will be officiating a same-sex wedding this summer. To my knowledge, Bishop Rimbo will be the first ELCA bishop to do this.

Jesus tells us, “Small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life” (Matt. 7:14). God then warns us of false teachers that teach contrary to God's Word, leading people the wrong way and down the broad road to destruction (Matt. 7 +). Bishop Rimbo and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are acting contrary to Scripture and are leading people into bondage to sin. Bishop Rimbo's actions and words tighten the chains of bondage around people who are embracing their sinful desires and are being affirmed in them with the blessing of clergy and the Church. The ELCA and Bishop Rimbo are those whom Jesus warned us about.

Last week Bishop Rimbo was featured in a Wall Street Journal article, where we learned of his intentions to officiate at a same-sex wedding. It is greatly disappointing to read of the extent to which Bishop Rimbo will go to embrace worldly values which go against God's Word.

Readers of the article also learned a lot more about the high-ranking ELCA leader – like his unique, gospel-less ways to try to “rebuild his flock.”

Here are some highlights from the article:

  • "'The younger demographic wants a religion that won't divide,' (Rimbo) said, referring to social issues like gay marriage.”

  • “Bishop Robert Alan Rimbo may be the only spiritual leader trying to rebuild his flock with giant crossword puzzles in the subway and interactive art projects involving dye-filled soap bubbles.” 
    (An ELCA minister in charge of the interactive art projects said) “Did most people pick up on this spiritual message? Probably not."


  • “As for Bishop Rimbo, he hasn't exactly been afraid of stoking controversy: He came out for the practice of intercommunion, in which Christians of different denominations can receive Communion at one another's services.”

  • “And several years ago, he lent his support to a proposed Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center site that had drawn criticism, arguing that the branch of Islam preached by the proposed center's imam is 'in my opinion, the most tolerant and pluralistic.'" (read article here)

Throughout the whole article there was not one mention of Jesus or God.

Five years ago Bishop Rimbo was quoted by a reporter saying, "
After years of personal struggle, of study, of conversations, I believe that people who are gay are created that way. Who am I to deny something that God has created?” (see here)

Bishop Rimbo's personal belief goes completely against Scripture.  Who is he to deny what God has said in His Word?


Pilot Douglas Corrigan, in 1938 filed a flight plan saying he was going to fly to California but he somehow ended up in Ireland. He later said that he must have made a navigational error and flown the “wrong way.” (see here)  This incidence earned Douglas Corrigan the nickname “Wrong Way.”

Much like Corrigan, Bishop Rimbo and the ELCA leadership, who are supposed to lead people to Christ, are leading their flock and all those listening to them the wrong way, down a road that is broad but leads to destruction. ELCA Bishop Rimbo and his denomination, in my view have also earned the nickname, “Wrong Way.”

Read more about Wrong Way Rimbo here and here -

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Didaskalos link
3/20/2014 09:38:12 am

The Ear-tickling Lutheran Church in America continues to try gimmicky apostasy as its strategy to gain congregants. And it continues to hemorrhage members year after year after year. [ http://juicyecumenism.com/2013/08/14/always-declining-the-evangelical-lutheran-church-in-americas-stillborn-quarter-century-of-existence/ ]

Mark Tooley writes in a First Things article:

". . .And, yes, Bishop Rimbo will conduct his first same-sex union in June, although his “conversion” on the issue occurred long ago in the 1980s. The ELCA voted in 2009 to permit same-sex rites, and although the article doesn’t mention it, ELCA membership losses thereafter accelerated. “The younger demographic wants a religion that won’t divide,” he explains, apparently believing that same-sex unions have been broadly unifying.

"Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo’s focus—at least in this profile—is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches. (The bishop mentions the 2009 vote on same-sex unions that persuaded several conservative Asian congregations to quit the ELCA in New York.)

"There are many urban churches in New York and elsewhere successful with that group, especially the young professionals Rimbo thinks will approve of his impending same-sex union. Tim Keller of the conservative Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is famous for his Redeemer Church in Manhattan, which with its various church plants has attracted thousands of members. He remains conservative on theology and sex while admitting that many of his urban church attenders are socially liberal.

"I have noticed this phenomenon in the vibrant churches of Washington, DC that attract young people. The churches, most of them founded over the last decade or so, are conservative, typically Anglican, PCA, Assemblies of God, or Reformed. Many of their young congregants, mostly new to the city and living in hip, newly gentrified neighborhoods, are socially liberal. Yet these young social liberals are not attending the dozens of theologically liberal old line Protestant churches in DC whose beautiful sanctuaries are typically half or more empty with disproportionately old congregants on Sunday morning. These churches tout their openness to same-sex marriage as the supposed siren call for youngsters, largely without effect.

"Why? I conjecture that even young social liberals desiring to worship prefer churches with spiritual vitality that profess a transcendent message challenging their own worldly preferences. In other words, these young people aren’t that much different from other spiritual seekers almost everywhere who, consciously or not, cleave to a faith that demands rather than accommodates. . . .

"If Bishop Rimbo were willing to postpone his same-sex rite and experiment instead with theological orthodoxy, he might be surprised by the result. He might even preside over a Lutheran revival in New York."

http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/03/how-to-reach-the-hip-urban-and-socially-liberal -- "HOW TO REACH THE HIP, URBAN, AND SOCIALLY LIBERAL: OUTREACH IN THE CITY"

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Mark Hollmann
3/22/2014 12:31:09 am

Here is a link to the Wall Street Journal article for free:

http://wagner.edu/newsroom/wsj-profile-wagner-college-trustee-robert-rimbo/

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Dan Skogen
3/22/2014 03:35:22 am

Thanks, Mark! I changed the link in the article to this one.

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