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Contrast the depth of this Synodical Bishop’s Advent message with the drivel served up by Presiding Bishop Hanson, which I posted earlier this evening.
A good start, but he needs a different verb: "We have drifted, intentionally so, from the Bible in this church because we have loved the praises of men more than the praise of God . . . ."
Elizabeth Eaton is that tyrannical pseudo-bishop who “enforced church discipline on schismatic congregations” by forbidding dual membership in LCMC and ELCA.
I hope that ALL the congregations involved did the right thing and left the ELCA!!!
Eaton comes out of the hyper-liberal “gay”/feminazi combination of Harvard Divinity School and University “Lutheran” “Church”, Cambridge, MA. It figures.
Our Orthodox (OCA) Bishop also called our diocese’s loss of membership and money over the years a “spiritual crisis”. He was right. But the real issue is all too many cradle Orthodox and lukewarm converts who have thrown away the inestimable treasure of Orthodoxy to join the morass of our society, and in some cases even to become Episcopalians. Meanwhile, so many others desire the treasure of Holy Orthodoxy, and become converts. Gospodi pomilui!
On a very happy note, one of our member who left the Orthodox Church to become Episcopalian returned! May many more do so. And our little congregation has many 20- and 30-somethings, including families with a growing number of young children. We have many teens as well. Thanks and praise to God!!
The REAL spiritual crisis in the ELCA is something else entirely, of course.