Woman leaves Lutheran church, National adoption of resolution prompts action

Carroll County Times ( Westminster, MD) ^ | 9/8/7 | Diane Reynolds

[P-Marlowe]

There's one on every thread like this...

She's usually the first.

[P-Marlowe]

You must have missed this part...

[Iscool]

Hey, I resemble that remark...

[RobinOfKingston]

My pastor says he is hanging in there until the next convention to see what direction they will follow.

That is (gutless) pastor-speak for "Pleeeaaase don't make waves."

I have learned in the past several years that there are shepherds who eat mutton.

[VOA]

The assembly passed the resolution by a vote of 538-431.

Well, I guess that's the last word.
538 "church" power-players issuing that apology to Sodom
and Gomorrah.
Good thing these smarty-pants are helpin out The Big Guy,
as he apparently forgot the apology in The Holy Bible.
(/SARC...but mostly that's what I see in this voting)

[MinuteGal]

I just happened to catch a promo on a TV station the other night.......and sorry to say I don't recall what cable channel.

There's a TV special coming up titled "Jewish, Christianity, Islam.....One God".

The propaganda and moral relativity never stops, does it?.

I'm happy and blessed to be a baptized, confirmed, life-long Lutheran member of the Missouri Synod.

Leni

[marshmallow]

Naysayers not withstanding, this sort of hanky panky has already resulted in numerous Episcopalians swimming the Tiber. There's no reason to think that the same won't occur as the homosexual activists make further inroads into the Lutherans.

Your haste to scoff at Salvation's comment shows that you know it.

[xone]

lol

[SeaHawkFan]

That’s going to leave a mark.

[Salvation]

**My faith is built on what the Bible teaches, and I will not go where it isn’t being followed,” she wrote in an e-mail.**

You know as well as I do that the Catholic Church follows the Bible and what it teaches.

[red irish]

Now you know the Catholic don’t believe in the bible and we worship Mary and the Pope is the antichrist? Right. Same crap all the time. But hey the Mormons have been taking some serious heat.

[Iscool]

You know as well as I do that the Catholic Church follows the Bible and what it teaches.

If I believed that, I'd be a Catholic myself

[Iscool]

Now you know the Catholic don’t believe in the bible and we worship Mary and the Pope is the antichrist?

Just remember, you're always welcome home to a Protestant, Bible Believing church...

[Titanites]

Just remember, you're always welcome home to a Protestant, Bible Believing church...

There is such a thing? What about:

• confess to another
• baptism with water now saves
• stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught whether by word or our epistle
• this is my body
• whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven
• man is justified by works and not by faith alone
• faith without works is dead

[Titanites]

I meant to ping you to #36, also.

[IslandJeff]

This decision left the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a conservative Lutheran denomination of 2.6 million members, equally perplexed about the actions of its larger relative

I don't think one would find too many LCMS members affirming my bolded portion of this quotation.

[DragoonEnNoir]

I would argue that the distinction between ‘Protestant’ and ‘Catholic’ is entirely a human one.

God only sees those who are in obedience to Him, and those who are not. None of our churches is perfect, but it is the duty of every follower of Christ to maintain unity and love within the body, and to correct and rebuke our brethren when we stray from sound teaching.

As to the issue of gay ordination, I think people often confuse loving people, with telling them that what they do is ‘ok’.

A person who is a practicing homosexual is living in direct opposition to the Word of the bible. Absolutely, we should love and welcome homosexuals into our churches, but this does not mean we change what God teaches us to suit the itching ears and fashions of the world.

People would not allow an alchoholic to head AA. Similarly, a church should not be lead by an unrepentant person.

[DragoonEnNoir]

Oh... as an aside, I can recommend the Church of the Lutheran Brethren as a synod with sound biblical teaching.