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* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Christ is in our midst!
Posted on 01/19/2011 3:03:32 PM PST by rhema
The ELCA is taking harsh actions against African immigrant Lutherans who oppose the ELCA’s new teaching and policy on marriage and same-sex sexual relationships.
Two African immigrant congregations have been expelled from local ELCA congregations where they have worshiped at the direction of ELCA officials.
“Oromo congregations in Houston, Texas, and Denver, Colorado, were asked by their mission directors and host church to leave the church premises without delay. The reason they were given was they are not in agreement with the August 2009 Churchwide Assembly resolution,” the January newsletter of the United Oromo Evangelical Churches reported.
The 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted to change ELCA teaching and practice on marriage and sexual ethics to affirm same-sex sexual relationships and to allow pastors to be in those relationships.
The 2009 assembly also asked the ELCA to respect the “bound consciences” of those who disagree with the church’s new teaching and practice. But that part has been more difficult for ELCA officials.
“One of the things mentioned to the leaders of the church in Denver: ‘Rev. Gemechis Buba has resigned from his ELCA position and we assume you have a similar stand and we have no reason to keep you in our buildings,’” the newsletter reported.
The Rev. Dr. Gemechis Buba is the former Director of African National Ministries for the ELCA. He resigned his ELCA position Dec. 8 to accept a call to serve as Missions Director for the North American Lutheran Church.
Dr. Buba was the first prominent leader from the ELCA national offices in Chicago to leave the church body since the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly.
Members of these congregations came to America to escape persecution because of their Christian faith in their native Ethiopia under the Communist regime that ruled Ethiopia until 1991. Some of them were imprisoned and tortured because of their commitment to Christ. They now face a different kind of persecution in their new home because of their faith.
“We ask all of our church leaders to announce fasting and prayer time for the difficulties we currently facing,” the newsletter requests.
Those two congregations will be far better off either by themselves or joining another solid denomination.
"All bound consciences are equal, but some bound consciences are more equal than others."
Ah! Bound Conscience?
ELCA, church of abortionist tiller.
How is it respectful to those with “bound consciences” to tell them to get out of the church? With respect like that, who needs persecution?
Also, I find it quite telling that only Dr. Buba has resigned from the national offices. I guess it is hard to leave a big paying job on just a matter of conscience & morality.
How soon before the ELCA replaces the Cross with a phallic symbol?
Yes, homosexuality trumps charity & fellowship in the ELCA.
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Christ is in our midst!
Wow, don’t those ECLA guys love their gay blades and dead babies.
Local resident, Lot, with wife and daughters, evicted from Twin Cities area. Film at elev--
Ah! Bound Conscience?
Sounds kinky.
Behind the facade of egalitarianism by those who promote "bound conscience" lurks the BIG LIE.
The BIG LIE on which "bound conscience" is moral relativism asserting that Biblical sexual ethics are merely one's "opinion"; an "opinion" of no greater value than any others.
The witness of Scripture and Tradition are rendered subordinate to the testimony of "experience" and reason.
Behind the facade of egalitarianism by those who promote "bound conscience" lurks the BIG LIE.
The BIG LIE on which "bound conscience"is premised is moral relativism: Asserting that Biblical sexual ethics are merely one's "opinion"; an "opinion" of no greater value than any others.
The witness of Scripture and Tradition are rendered subordinate to the testimony of "experience" and reason.
ELCA = Ichabod
If they’re throwing in with queers and abortionists, they ain’t a church no more anyway.
Missouri Synod!
The nerve of them, holding to Biblical teaching.
And it was during that meeting that a tornado damaged the building where the abomination vote took place. It appears that Someone was not amused. I know some other pastors (not part of that apostasy) who agree with the reason for that whirlwind.
LOL!!!
He is and shall be!
This is total hogwash. I’ve know (and been a member of) plenty of ELCA Lutheran parishes that have housed congregations that are COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the ELCA. Most have been ethnic, immigrant congregations—Korean Reformed, Haitian Baptist, etc. (in one case, even Bulgarian Orthodox, and in another even Reconstructionist Jewish). These are usually protestant congregations that are independent of any denomination, and whose members cannot yet afford their own building. The host ELCA parishes have gotten along amiably with their tenants, received rents from them, and have been proud of hosting them.
Now we have ELCA parishes who are kicking out their ethnic, immigrant congregation tenants, even though they are Lutheran!!!! In fact, being Lutheran is a liability for them, just because they refuse to kow-tow to the “gay” agenda of the ELCA.
I am sure that some of the Korean and Haitian protestant congregations housed by ELCA parishes—not to mention the rare immigrant Orthodox congregation—do not go along with the “gay” agenda of the ELCA. But since they are not Lutheran, and thus do not directly challenge the ELCA’s “gay” agenda, they can stay, while the conservative African Lutherans are expelled.
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