“ I am not amused. ”
Posted on 07/09/2024 9:33:42 PM PDT by Morgana
Living Lutheran is the official and primary publication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Founded in 1831, it had a monthly circulation of over 133,000 households in 50 countries, sharing news of the denomination’s activities, institutions, congregations, and synods in paper distribution before going fully digital in 2024.
They recently ran a glowing feature of The Table church in Nashville, TN. Led by ‘pastor’ Dawn Bennet, the magazine praises her for her work in ministering to the LGBTQ community, saying in part:
The Table is the first ELCA congregation in the Southeastern Synod with the specific goal of serving the LGBTQ+ community, Bennett said. “This innovative ministry sought to establish a safe place for the community to discover their belovedness and belongingness within the Christian lens. It is deliberate work, albeit tender work,” she added. “The Table offers an affirming place for all women, particularly our LGBTQ+ identified women, to explore their being and belonging.”
It’s also the first LGBTQ+ Women of the ELCA group, which makes Bennett a trailblazer. But Bennet said she hopes it will not be the only one of its kind. “By God’s grace and our commitment to creating innovative ministry in our future church, to be the first means to also pave the way for others to create this kind of specialized unit to serve their own context,” she said.
We’ve featured Bennett, a self-described bisexual/queer woman, a few times before. Our assessments have always been through a far more critical and appraising lens, both for her ordination service, one of the more bizarre we’ve ever seen, and after she attended the Pride parade topless with body paint and pasties covering her.
For the ELCA, however, frolicking nude or getting ordained surrounded by drag queens are not bugs or disqualifying activities. Rather, they are features. These transgressive acts are valued in their clergy and appreciated by the ELCA’s leadership, and we expect to see her profile within the demonic denomination only get higher and higher.
*pics on link BARF ALERT*
Some of the guys in the back roll seem to have mixed up Easter with Halloween. Ghouls, not girls.
“She makes it easier to understand the appeal of Jezebel to the people of Israel.”
Appealing? What is appealing about that? I need a sodium bicarbonate after just looking at the pics on this link. I could not possibly understand why anyone finds this appealing.
Please do not confuse leftist ELCA with us conservative Lutherans!
An older lady I volunteer with is ELCA, conservative in many ways, but she’s approving of another female coworker who is marrying a woman. She’s also shocked that I’m not approving of female pastors.
“ I am not amused. ”
Why don’t they just get it over with and merge with the Unitarian Universalists?
Probably because the Unitarian Universalists are too conservative for the Satan-led XXXA.
You may have something there!
LOL
If my memory is correct, ELCA is the outfit importing Somali’s into St Paul/Minneapolis.
They are not doing God’s work at all in any respect. Just another evil branch of the rat party.
These “people” are clearly EVIL!
And, INSANE!
Yeah, they’re just like everybody else. /megasarc
I remember the kind and gentle American Lutheran Church that I grew up in.
It joined the new ELCA and I was astounded that a family in the church denounced the ELCA and left the church.
Now, I understand what they were warning us all about. Then, I 2005 or so, I sat in church and listened to one of our delegates to the convention waxing eloquently about the enlightened church position on homosexuality, and I got up, took my young son by the hand and walked out. God led us that morning to a LCMS church in a nearby town and I haven’t crossed the threshold of the ELCA since.
It is obvious that the ELCA is no longer a religion, but rather a perverted cult.
Is it just me or do you also find it interesting that the first three letters of LGBTQ+ are Let’s Go Brandon.
They are trying to add a ‘P’ for pedophelia. You watch.
I’m just here for the nude photo of a Pastrix.
Me too, I left the Lutheran church over 45 years ago due to the progressive shift. From a family of 3 Lutheran pastors, including one that
was a ‘circuit pastor’ on the Great Plains that came over from Norway in the mid 1880s.
Sad what the ELCA has become.
It happens to EVERY church. Satan will never leave one alone.
Church buildings and denominations come and go but the true body of Christ will never fail.
Went from Lutheran to Presbyterian. Left that church (PCUSA) about 8 years ago due their stated progressive position. Our conservative church couldn’t abandon without ‘buying’ the physical building and property WE PAID for. So adios. Now go to an extremely small bible based church (generally about 20 adults and 12 kids every Sunday).
The “It’s all about me” church
There are several good, solid theological reasons to oppose female pastors. I do not disparage those reasons.
However, I have also observed a most persuasive practical reason to oppose female pastors: The females who most loudly clamor for the approval of female pastors are manifestly unfit for ministry.
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