“I am so glad that I went LCMS.”
It’s coming there too. They are just a few years behind ELCA.
Plenty of Dr. Guy Erwin’s kind serving as LCMS pastors — just protected and covered up by the organization.
I dont think the LCMS will go that way. But if it does, I’m looking for a new church
It’s sad. One place this can hide is earthly denominationalism. “Oh, we need to be good Lutherans (or Catholics, or Baptists or whatever) and he might be a hinky person but he sure talks up the Lutherans (or Catholics, or Baptists or whatever). So we’ll turn a blind eye and not call him out on it in love.”
Lord, I hope not. There isn’t another Lutheran option in town.
Not if President Matthew Harrison has anything to say about it.
Marriage and the Church
by Pastor Matthew Harrison, President of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
It’s coming there too. They are just a few years behind ELCA. Plenty of Dr. Guy Erwin’s kind serving as LCMS pastors — just protected and covered up by the organization.
I didn't know. Discouraging.
3/27/2013 – The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod President, Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, sent a letter to the Boy Scouts of America explaining the seriousness of the potential membership policy change and described the “crisis of conscience” that may force congregations to reconsider their support of the organization. Excerpt below …
“… (A) “challenge for our churches in allowing the decision to remain local rather than national lays in the fact that some communities have larger and more politically active gay and lesbian groups. In these communities, the local Boy Scout Council may impose the acceptance of homosexual scouts and scout leaders upon troops sponsored by the local congregation. Should this occur, the Boy Scouts effectively will have superseded the authority of our church teaching, of the local pastor and of the congregation — perhaps even placing us in legal jeopardy.” In the letter, Harrison also pointed out that this policy change could mean that “scouts from troops sponsored by congregations of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod potentially would be interacting with openly homosexual scouts and scout leaders at regional and national scouting activities….”