Posted on 07/26/2004 4:51:56 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
LOL
I stand corrected. I think it was the "Jay" that pushed it over the top for me.
The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time; so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and to save the world from suicide."
T.S. Eliot, Christianity and Culture
TonyRo76 is in charge of the Lutheran ping list--send a message to him if you want to be on it (if he doesn't do it automatically anyway because of this message of mine).
The Missouri Synod is troubled in part because it fights over much smaller differences than those we fight over in the ELCA, which I do not fully understand--LCMS Freepers, please help me out! They just had a very divisive presidential election, for example. The LCMS also is in trouble because of its large anti-liturgical "church growth movement" faction that dilutes and de-empasizes the sacramental life that is central to most orthodox Lutherans, especially an evangelical catholic/Evangelical Orthodox Lutheran like me. (There are "growthers" in the ELCA, too. And there are evanglical catholics in the LCMS--it's all very complicated for an outsider--and many insiders--to understand. There are even "ELCA wanabe" liberals in the LCMS, although I can't understand why.)
To The Pastor--thank you for continuing the good fight. I hope that you are a member of the Society of the Holy Trinity, or are at least familiar with the Evangelical Lutheran Confessing Fellowship, so that you do not have to fight alone. For your information, I am a layman who subscribes to "Lutheran Forum", and attend a Serbian Orthodox congregation in addition to my ELCA congregation. God bless you!
Good point. Never say never!
I think Pr. Henrickson can shed some light on the LCMS's troubles.
Wonder if Bishop Hansen will continue to look the other way....
Yes, thank you. I was raised in a different church, and recently married into the Lutheran church. There's so much that I just don't understand. Lutherans comport themselves much differently than I'm accustomed to...
Please put me on the ping list....
Please send this thread to the entire Lutheran Ping list, so that other Lutheran Freepers can see the latest assault of the revisionists upon us.
I am convinced that the revsionist/gay strategy is to wear us down with acts such as this one, so that no matter what the vote is in 2005 (or whether there is a vote at all), they win. And it will make it that much harder for us to decide what to do in 2005 and beyond, i.e., whether to stay in the ELCA or to leave.
LOL
Pastor,
I am a member of an ELCA-affiliated church just a few miles south of the Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg. There are not less than six ELCA-affiliated churches within a couple of miles of my home, but no other Lutheran churches. I am not sure exactly what my church will do if the ELCA decides to embrace an abomination that is clearly condemned by Scripture. However, I do know that my family as well as a number of our friends will not attend a church that has turned its back on the Word in such a manner.
Perhaps at least one of the Lutheran churches in town will continue to follow the teachings of Christ, even if it means leaving the ELCA.
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