....[Nagel]...”But this affirmation by a wider community makes this a bigger ordination than normal.”....
1. Like many “mainline”/lameline “gay””pastors” and “bishops”, Ms. Nagel is puffed up with arrogance!!!! Her “ordination” is in reality of ZERO importance, since it is completely invalid. Perhaps many of her audience are mere curiosity-seekers, who are coming to see a freak show!!!!
2. The ELCA “gay” lobby, “Lutherans Concerned” (LCNA), invites us to see an online version of a TV documentary, “For the Bible Tells Me So”.
http://www.lcna.org/lcna_news/2008-01-15.shtm
In their introduction to the video, LCNA states:
......”My understanding is that Jesus, in Matthew 19 and Mark 10, says that sexual union is valid in a one man/one woman relationship,” Pastor Dave Glesne says.
“When someone says this is what the Bible says, my response to them is ‘no;’ that is what it reads. It is the struggle to understand context and language,”.....
The entire lameline “gay” movement is based on twisting Scripture beyiond what it “reads” to a distorted version that supports the “gay” agenda, but contradicts the entire witness of the apostolic Church. Similarly, lameline feminists, globalists, and muslim-enablers do a similar job of Scripture-twisting to support their agendas, which are not unrelated to the “gay” one.
The ELCA willfully ignores this:
"When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studies in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise. God in revealing His Word neither intends nor permits the reader to be confused. He wants His children to understand." [Dr. D. A. Waite, Ephesians, p. 10]
The Bible proclaims its authority to judge its readers; the ELCA proclaims its authority to judge the Bible.