Lutheran (EL
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
Posted on 06/27/2023 8:28:39 PM PDT by lightman
A Lutheran church in Minnesota recited a “sparkle creed” about the “nonbinary God” and Jesus’ “two dads” during its Sunday service, according to a live stream recording on YouTube.
Edina Community Lutheran Church Pastor Anna Helgen asked the congregation to stand in “body or spirit” to “confess our faith” in the “sparkle creed,” according to the recording. The church went on to chant a statement of faith in the “nonbinary God” and in Jesus Christ, “who had two dads.” (RELATED: Churches Embrace Pride Month With Drag Queen Story Hour, Queer Proms And Gay Concerts)
“I believe in the nonbinary God, whose pronouns are plural. I believe in Jesus Christ, their child, who wore a fabulous tunic, and had two dads and saw everyone as a sibling child of God,” the church recited. “I believe in the rainbow spirit who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity. I believe in the church of everyday saints, as numerous, creative and resilient as patches on the … quilt. Whose feet are grounded in mud and whose eyes gaze at the stars in wonder. I believe in the calling to each of us that love is love is love, so beloved let us love. I believe, glorious God, help my unbelief, Amen.”
Helgen then led a prayer to the God of “expansive and inclusive love” for shrinking honey bee populations and “climate justice,” according to the recording. The church also prayed for the upcoming Pride festival, for “all LGBTQIA+ leaders” and for those who have felt excluded due to their “gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other human distinction.”
Helgen included a quick shout-out during the prayer to Taylor Swift and prayed that God would help them “shake it off” when life gets difficult, according to the recording.
The church’s website emphasizes its commitment to combating racism and LGBTQ discrimination, and confessed to “land theft” for being located on Native American land.
“We acknowledge that Edina Community Lutheran Church is located on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary lands of the Dakhóta Oyáte*, the Dakota nation,” the church’s homepage reads. “Acknowledging this painful history, we as a congregation confess our complicity in the theft of Native land and acknowledge that we have not yet honored our treaties. We further confess that Christians and Christian churches have benefited from this land theft. We commit to being active advocates for justice for Native People and to truth-telling that leads to healing.”
Helgen did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
There’s only two possibilities here. Either this is the Babylon Bee, or these church people are possessed.
That’s it.
Martin Luther will be spinning in his grave.
Stand up, walk to the door, take off your shoes, and clap them together to beat the dust off.
Luke 10:10-12
But whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your city which clings to our feet we wipe off in protest against you; yet be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’ I say to you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
It would be interesting to see some old-fashioned Indians come to take their land back, drive away the palefaces, and fire the church.
The only time I have ever come close to walking out of a church service was forty years ago in a UMC that had something similar to this, but no where nearly as bad. Not even close.
Yeah ...
Two words; Ridiculous and Poisonous!
Just like there are Wannabe Indians, there are Wannabe Lutherans.
Target an institution, the older the better.
Start working on changing definitions of words related to that institution.
Using the changed definitions, get people into the institution that are absolutely, diametrically opposed to the institution, its history, its mission, its makeup, its nature.
Those people work from inside to change everything about the institution.
Thus, Conquest's Second Law: “Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.”
Martin Luther would NOT approve!
Many of them are DWFs who look disdainfully upon the mono-married as being somehow lacking in maturity.
Replaced the Cross with the Pentagram. Sacrilege & abomination.
Shrug. Edina Lutherans. They gave up being Christian a long time ago. I believe they’re Lesbitarian now.
I have to assume this is an ELCA.
Or, perhaps purely independent Lutheran?
Is this a fayg church?
Yeah ...
That’s problem number one.
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