[lightman]

Second of two news releases from the ELCA house organ.

Now I'll go back and fix the formatting on the first one.

[lightman]

Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!

* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.

[Breto]

We need a Martin Luther to reform the Lutherans. Lucifer has entered the church.

[April Lexington]

I have yet to hear or read the word JESUS in ANY ELCA service. REPENT... for the Kingdom of G-d is near!

[April Lexington]

All those who cannot follow the Lutheran Confessions should call themselves something else. Either you are Lutheran or you are something else. STOP besmertching Lutheranism!!!

Save the Lutherans!

[StarfireIV]

Thank You Lightman. You just helped me find a new congregation. I knew I was headed out the door of my old one when the pastor cited Stephen Colbert in one
of the sermons months ago.

[xone]

"The ELCA has fallen into heresy. It is time for confession and time to resist. It is a time for new life." Those who do not agree with CORE are not enemies, Spring told the convocation. "They are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Be gracious in your dealings with them," he said.

The congregants may not be the enemy, but even those that don't agree with the changes from the convention but remain in the ELCA and stay silent are 'working for the enemy'. Deal graciously yes, but admonish them to return to repentance and forgiveness. Some members are in fact working for the enemy outright even though they don't discern it. Others have their politics above faith in God and are knowingly working this destruction but fearing not God, don't care.

[Honorary Serb]

These ELCA “house organ” news releases are not a compete waste. My former ELCA congregation has an ELCA news feed, and so anyone who sees the feed on their website is forced to confront the collapse of the ELCA.

They must now confront this latest blow to their “Churchwide expression”:

http://www.elca.org/Who-We-Are/Our-Three-Expressions/Churchwide-Organization/Communication-Services/News/Releases.aspx?a=4302

I still have friends in my former congregation. The congregation is VERY complacent, planning major building renovations and taking in “partnered” “gays” as new members. They have “blessed” “gay unions” as well.

And they are using the bogus “Lutheran” (ELCA) Study Bible, which the ELCA rushed out to beat the LCMS. I also wonder if that study Bible was done in imitation of the excellent Orthodox Study Bible, and to try to prevent ELCA members from ordering the OSB. The OSB, by the way, was NOT rushed out—its publication missed several deadlines by years, and it was long-awaited.

Now they have to confront the growing signs of the ELCA’s collapse (which I predicted before I left). They will be having a congregational retreat next weekend, so maybe they will discuss the collapse. I hope that they don’t just attribute it to “anti-gay bigotry”, which would be a major cop-out.

May the All-Holy and Life-Creating Spirit illumine my friends, and their entire parish!!!!