So... no longer Lutheran?
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
This won’t end well.
This sound smore like a Unitarian church than any Lutheran church I ever visited.
Marin Luther would have hammer in hand
It reminds me of what Ezekiel saw when he was told to dig through the side of the Temple and report what he saw there.
Then the order went out to mark everyone crying for Jerusalem, and then the slayer went through and killed those without the mark, starting at the Temple.
Mushrooms for communion
Apostasy: It’s Not Just For Breakfast!™️
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“We have seen where the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will be in 30 years, and it’s in the form of herchurch, a heretical church in San Francisco...”
San Fransisco.
Figures.
I do NOT miss the Bay Area!
And then there is this-
I was waiting for statement which tells us this is a big joke, but that line never came.
I have my own beliefs and I think all Christians believe in something slightly different if you really get into the nuance. I also believe that a divided community makes us weak and allows the enemy of Christ to win. I try to remain an ally and accept the broadest definition of Christian and realize that I may not have it all right either, “but lets work together” on the bigger issues.
That said, even I who tries to throw the biggest possible tent and include all Christians have a hard time stomaching this crap.
This isn’t Christian. It’s as simple as that.
In fact, if Luther (E Lutheran CA) were alive today, he would literally whip and push these heretics from the pulpit. Realize, he was a Catholic priest and very conservative. His goal was never a split from the church, rather to reform it because of the 95 thesis he saw wrong. These people are cult members, their leader a heretic, and the ELCA should change its name, removing Luther from it.
They are allowed to do whatever they want, but when you use names like Christian and Luther as defining terms, but rebuke everything these teach and stand for, when you adopt some entirely new philosophy and doctrine but still want to use some symbols from some other group which you are not part of, that is akin to what liberals like to define as “cultural appropriation.” That cross, Bible, terms like Christian and Luther don’t belong to them anymore. They are something entirely new and different.
...Who are now probably rolling over in their graves.
Which of Martin’s theses covers that?
And to think I grew up in the Lutheran church (although I think it was the somewhat more sane Missouri synod).
The XXXA sinks further into Satan’s abyss of apostasy.
One major difference between the Catholic and Lutheran churches is that you can tell who the chosen faithful and who the damned heretic Lutherans are simply by where they meet—chosen faithful in LCMS, WELS, and a few smaller groups, damned heretics in ELCA. Eventually the “traditional” Catholics will realize they are in the wrong place wherever Francis and his prog cardinals rule, and ask the Spirit to provide them a real pope who really cares about the faith.
Pope Francis: Why didn’t I think of that stuff?
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...”
II These. 2:3
I’d say the falling away is in full swing - but I’m sure we haven’t seen anything yet. The lawless one can’t be too far behind.
We have seen where the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will be in 30 years, and it’s in the form of herchurch, a heretical church in San Francisco within the Sierra Pacific Synod, the most progressive entity of the ELCA.
That group ("herchurch")'s been around for quite a while.
Built on defective theology and ends on defective theology.