ELCA Exposed News on Called To Common Mission and "Christian Nationalism"
"Christian Nationalism"What is Christian Nationalism?. . .If you google that phrase on the ELCA web site, you get several pages of results, starting with this one: “ELCA presiding bishop, Christian leaders issue statement against Christian nationalism,” dating back to 2019. But what is this evil that the bishops deplore? An ELCA Study Guide On Civic Life and Faith offers a definition: . .
Christian Nationalism and who is a real AmericanRead Exposing the ELCA Blogs about "Christian Nationalism" hereCalled To Common MissionCalled to Unity by Faith Alone. . .CCM proponents reasoned, the time is long overdue for us to fulfill the original wishes of Luther, Melanchthon, and the Wittenberg Reformers. However, as this paper will clarify, the Reformers rejected any notion of episcopal succession or “historic episcopate. . . ”
Faithful Dissent. . .I am, therefore, disturbed that Called to Common Mission mandates acceptance of an ecclesial system as a prerequisite for altar and pulpit fellowship. It is enough that there be faithful preaching of the Gospel and administration of the sacraments. . .
CCM Verax
(Website devoted to telling the truth behind Called to Common Mission) Called to Common Mission (CCM), the ecumenical agreement between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Episcopal Church in the USA, is arguably the greatest act of deception ever cultivated by an ecclesial denomination in the history of North America. . .
The Order of Deacon: Stepping stone to being ordained a pastor (2020). . . to make the office of deacon a stepping stone to being ordained a pastor is an absolute contradiction to Lutheran theology. Nevertheless, the ELCA will do ministry the Episcopal way. It’s required by CCM. . .
Problems with CCM, simply explained. . .Does he come by virtue of his own power, his own Word (Christ), directly to us, or must God be channeled to us through a clerical system which is endowed with a special power to make God / Jesus present. . .
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Why bother with voting? An ordained diaconate is a done deal.
. . .For years ELCA leaders have promoted a false narrative about CCM, knowing that once the agreement was adopted, the ELCA would be locked into taking on the threefold order of ministry at some future time. . .
A confessional protest regarding —the ELCA's adoption of "Called to Common Mission
. . .At issue, we believe, is, not only the relationship between the ELCA and the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), but, even more importantly, the continuing commitment of the ELCA to be a denomination faithful to its own "Confession of Faith" as stated in its constitution and faithful to the Lutheran Confessions as found in The Book of Concord. . .
The ELCA takes another step on the road to the Episcopal/Roman Catholic priesthood
. . .The above 2016 and 2019 constitutional changes are required steps on the road to the Episcopal/Roman Catholic threefold hierarchy of bishop, priest, and deacon. . .
PREDICTIONS FULFILLED, ELCA APOSTASY COMPLETE?
A letter to the Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Written in 1998.