Posted on 01/10/2021 10:23:59 PM PST by lightman
CHICAGO — The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), joined leaders from the National Council of Churches (NCC) in an open letter to Vice President Mike Pence, members of Congress and the Cabinet, calling for the removal of President Donald Trump from office.
The letter states: "Our faith instructs us to take seriously positions of leadership, not to lead others astray and to be careful about what we say and do.
"For the good of the nation, so that we might end the current horror and prepare the way for binding up the nation's wounds, we, as leaders of the member communions of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC), believe the time has come for the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, to resign his position immediately."
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About the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: The ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, with nearly 3.3 million members in more than 8,900 worshiping communities across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region. Known as the church of "God's work. Our hands.," the ELCA emphasizes the saving grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unity among Christians and service in the world. The ELCA's roots are in the writings of the German church reformer Martin Luther.
For information contact: Candice Hill Buchbinder 773-380-2877 Candice.HillBuchbinder@ELCA.org
yes
“Getting along” is somewhere on the “fellow traveler” continuum.
Your Pastor was VERY wise!
Correction: ...a political—not apolitical
They also celebrated the summer of BLM love and condoning the rioting and the looting and the violence.
As mentioned in the OP, thankful to be out of Epypt!
I’ll be polite, so I do not get my FR account suspended ... What an ignorant fool this woman is.
Tax the Churches!
Pat, is that you?
I prefer the Dan Ackroyd retort from the classic SNL “Weekend Update:
“....you ignorant slut!”
This is no LCMS- Missouri Synod. I would never remain a member of the ELCA you may as well join the Pope. Religion and politics don’t mix.
This is not the real Lutherans LCMS- They should be forced to change their names. They are heretics and their leaders are headed for hell
yes—or close by J Edgar Hoover
Church Lady Dana Carvey is LCMS
Republicans in the pews will blindly continue to fill the collection baskets every Sunday.
Not sure. The WCC certainly was.
I’m glad I left too! My little rural ELCA church in Maryland seemed OK until I went to a Synod assembly, which had nothing to do with sharing the Word and was exclusively dedicated to liberal Democrat politics. I left that church and began searching, thankfully finding an LCMS church that was faithful to God, not leftist politics.
I always make the distinction. I grew up around St. Louis and know Concordia and KFUO. My first serious girlfriend was LCMS. A church with integrity.
Me too!!!!
I have met Elizabeth A. Eaton! She is a fraudulent “bishop”, ands now disgraced herself horribly once again!!!!
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