[Psalm 73]

"The line in the sand is forcing churches to comply."

My pastor was at a pastor's conference last fall - they were told to expect to go to jail in the near-future.
Paul had counted it as a joy to be imprisoned for the Gospel.

[jboot]

they were told to expect to go to jail in the near-future

Old Roger has gotten much more canny since he tangled with Saint Paul. Few pastors are going to go to jail. But plenty of pastors and church employees are going to be stripped of their livelihoods, pensions and children's college funds, plenty of missionaries and hospitals are going to lose their financial support, plenty of grand old church buildings are going to be sold at auction and plenty of hopes, dreams and futures are going to be sacrificed on the altar of butt-sex.

A martyr's cell would be preferable to the financial and social ruin that is going to be visited on our pastors and priests.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

We have had similar conversations in our church (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod). That's a far cry from the ELCA who will actually ordain, or marry a homosexual, huh?

I don't even like to hear the term, "Lutheran" because it means no more than the term, "Christian".