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ELCA Bishop Says Some of the Best Leaders of Congregations are LGBTQ+

8/2/2019

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Jim Hazelwood, bishop of the New England Synod of ELCA recently made a video for Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, an organization that "affirms and supports LGBTQIA+ Lutheran rostered leaders and those pursuing a call to rostered leadership, while engaging allied congregations and ministries to proclaim God’s love and seek  justice for all." (See here)

In the video
bishop Hazelwood said "I'm interested in finding the best leaders for our congregations period. Period.  Now what I have discovered is the best leaders for our congregations in New England are oftentimes people who are LGBTQ+.  And then, so that was the first thing I was looking for the best, and then they happened to be gay and I think that's really important. See the way I look at this is I think we have this opportunity to take the gifts of people and let them shine. And what I've found in my time as bishop in the New England Synod is that they are. I mean some of the most exciting and interesting and fascinating ministries are happening in congregations led by gay and queer pastors and it's fantastic. But but we wouldn't have had that opportunity if I hadn't said yes, if the church, the ELCA hadn't said yes."

The Bishop ends the vlog saying "...I'm grateful for ELM (Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries) and its partnership and all of the work that happens on behalf of the gospel of Jesus Christ here in New England and throughout the world."

Of course, practicing homosexual pastors are living in disobedience to God and in unrepentant sin. Their bishop should love them by telling and helping them turn from their sin. But in the ELCA, church leaders clap their hands, smile and praise those that need help and encouragement to leave the bondage of sin.


(See here)
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8/3/2019 05:27:26 am

What ELCA pastors and bishops would be preaching if the ELCA were Christian and confessional Lutheran:

“...Ninety percent of gay men surveyed by The Advocate (a gay magazine) claimed to have been born gay.1 And it’s true—homosexuals are born that way. We are all born with a sinful nature. We all naturally lean toward sin. The Bible tells us, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9). According to the Bible, homosexuality is just one sin among many that people gravitate toward.

"Some struggle with lying, gossip, jealousy, stealing, adultery, lust, or fornication, and others struggle with homosexuality. Just because a guy struggles with same-sex desire doesn’t mean God made him gay, any more than a guy struggling with anger means God made him a murderer. You have a choice about what you do with every temptation. You may not choose homosexual desires, but you do choose what you do with them."

. . . "The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6:9,10:

"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God."

"God clearly puts homosexuals in a list of those who will not be in Heaven, but the very next verse goes on to give great hope:

"Some of you *were* once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians 6:11, NLT).

"Some of the people in the church that this was originally written to were at one time practicing homosexuals, but Paul tells us that they found forgiveness and freedom from that sin, as well as others—and so can you.

"Through God’s power many homosexuals have been forgiven and changed. . . ."


'Coming Out of the Closet on Homosexuality' -- https://www.livingwaters.com/coming-out-of-the-closet-on-homosexuality/

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John
8/3/2019 05:48:57 pm

How Hazelwood and his ilk can live with themselves is beyond me. They are poster children for the seared conscience.
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron" (1 Tim 4:1-2)

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