The ELCA Vault - Room Nine
The ELCA Vault is a collection of articles, blogs, and documents related to issues with the ELCA. Marriage Amendment (half way down the page). . .There are other Lutheran groups in the state and nation that do not agree with the resolution passed by the Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA. . .
The Gospel of Inclusion. . .one phrase has popped up in several conversations; the “gospel of inclusion.” With discussions within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America revolving around human sexuality and the ministry policy changes of CWA 2009, inclusion has been one of many buzz words. . .
Minneapolis-area Lutherans weigh marriage amendment. . .Close to 1,000 Lutherans, representing the congregations in the Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, are slated to vote Friday at the group's annual assembly. The resolution states the marriage amendment "would prevent one group of committed couples and their families from pursuing ordinary legislative or legal means to gain the support and protections afforded to all other. . ."
What's New?
. . .But, to the leaders and scholars of the ELCA, human experience, tradition and knowledge lifts up one’s bound conscience above the authority of Scripture and allows them to disregard verses that do not correspond to their terms and allows members to make Scripture say whatever it is that one desires. . .
News from Lutheran CORE (see pages 3 and 8)
. . .a group of Hispan-ic pastors met with a delegation of ELCA leaders, urging them to call on the ELCA to repent. With no change in the ELCA’s position, the congregation that Pastor Eddy Perez serves signed a resolution, declaring themselves to be out of communion with the faction within the ELCA that has rejected the Bible as the final authority. . .
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The Bigger They Are
. . .Those that uphold the authority of Scripture and desire to break fellowship with the ELCA do so with great trepidation and sadness. Those that have been given no choice but to leave and join a synod true to the Lord, pray that those trapped within the ELCA have their hearts and minds opened to the fact that ELCA doctrine drives them away from our Lord. . .
Community of Hope celebrates 10 years in Rosemount
. . .In 2009 Community of Hope separated from the ELCA. . .The church functions as an independent Lutheran church, but Graves said church is exploring affiliations. . .
ELCA Bishop Duane Pederson Wages Battle with Grace Eau Claire, Announces Divorce
. . .After the vote, Pederson wrote in an email to a large number of undisclosed recipients, “This past week, I initiated contact with a number of folks who have provided leadership to those who oppose disaffiliation. . ."
Metaxas' new biography of Bonhoeffer
. . .they teach that Jesus was certainly not born of a virgin, that he never physically rose from the dead, and that most of the miracle stories in the New Testament were non-historical inventions of the human authors designed to make a theological point. . .
Sexual Ethics Online Course
. . .This became clear in the ELCA Churchwide Assembly of 2009, in which that church broke with Christian teachings on many fronts, but most dramatically on the moral assessment of homosexual conduct. . .
Rules, Rules, Rules
. . .the leadership of the ELCA encourages its’ membership to place themselves above our God. If they could just understand how much harm they are doing by affirming sinful behavior. . .
The Church Lite
. . .That is the ELCA in a nutshell. Less of that pesky troublemaker from Nazareth who claims to the Son of God, and more protests, campaigning, and signing petitions.
Theologically and intellectually the ELCA's laity and clergy are very weak. The ELCA is primarily a political organization in thrall to a god of secular politics. . .
Theologically and intellectually the ELCA's laity and clergy are very weak. The ELCA is primarily a political organization in thrall to a god of secular politics. . .
Look Who’s Separating Now
Judge: Grace Lutheran must postpone annual meeting
. . .Nestingen said the lawsuit and turmoil over the congregational split "has strengthened us. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but 45 people were willing to come up there and stand tall for us, and drive one and a half hours each way in bad weather. That says something about the commitment among our members.". . .
In Opposition to God - The ELCA's Pro Abortion Position - Witness Stone Blog
The Enemy Within
. . .The ELCA has met and actually embraced the enemy. The enemy is the sin of lifting up the self over our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This love of the self is how Satan leads us to sin, by inferring that we are equal or more important than our God. . .
ELCA's Financial Decline Continues - Witness Stone Blog
. . .Many faithful, Bible believing Lutherans have decided to stop funding the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America because it has taken the worldly "wide road" that leads to destruction. . .
Reconciled in Christ
. . .Bishop Hanson, describe just how a diversity of beliefs causes our faith to rise and to see and understand His majestic love and authority. Illuminate us how those who declare that faith in the Risen Christ is unnecessary to gain salvation can still walk as God walks with us. Rationalize to us poor uneducated, unwashed masses that accept that without faith, we cannot enter into His kingdom. . .