>>Promoting acceptance of sexual behavior has replaced the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the primary mission.
Sadly, this has become true for many “Christians”. I was at a Via de Cristo event a few months ago and two people were wearing a rainbow button with “ELCA” on it. The gay agenda has replaced the gospel for people like that.
This is also true of the Episcopal, Methodist and Presbyterian churches as well as many others. Their love has waxed cold.
These idiots think they are being nice to a downtrodden piece of humanity. In reality they are giving their souls to the devil.
certainly we can love homosexuals and try to help them, but not by advancing their perversion into normality and trapping other into their perversions.
Especially children should be sheltered from these mentally ill people. Teeat homosexuals like you would treat any other sick people, but do not think that accepting their sickness is going to help them. It will only condemn you.
This is dreadful.
I have not left the Lutheran Church. But clearly, this part of the Lutheran Church has left me.
The primary mission of ANY Christian church is to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This denomination has subordinated that mission to something else, focusing on forgiving the sin, even celebrating it, while doing nothing to reform the sinner.
The burgeoning population of lesbians in ELCA seminaries is a problem. The church leaders have been foisting them off on small rural congregations in order to avoid angering the big givers in large congregations. However, no one wants Rev. Jane and her “wife” living in the parsonage, so they quit coming to church and another congregation is destroyed.
Satan is laughing all the way to the desecrated altars. God moves another lamp stand to Africa.
Very fulfilled WELS member here...try them sometime.
I have stopped going to Church, for now. Haven’t gone since the ELCA synod decided to promote sin.
in 1988 they had 5.2 million members, but they are now down to only 4 million members–a staggering loss of over 1.2 million members, or 23% of their membership.
I’m saddened they didn’t lose more.
I’m encouraged to read that donations are down from 88 million to 40 million in just four years. That says that the queers’ allies don’t have all the money. Unfortunately, the schism leaves the queers’ denomination with all the land, buildings, and educational systems. I’m not sure abandoning the dysfunctional parent body is the way to go; I think if all the orthodox Lutherans (well...) out-hustled the queers, they could still take back their churches.
I know a lot of Christians have the attitude that it isn’t worthy to fight over material things, but I hate to see Satan get all the colleges, meetingspaces, etc. We are told to be cunning like wolves. Christianity tried going underground and focusing on purely the spiritual world once. The result was that ancient Christendom is ruled by Muslims.
BTW, the author of this article, Kevin Vogts, is a friend of mine. Just saw him last week at our LCMS national convention here in St. Louis. We're both LCMS pastors.