[lightman]

Link in source url in header is to main page of Bishop Eaton's messages; all of the messages are pdf files.

The message printed here comes via ALPB forum http://www.alpb.org/forum/index.php?topic=2542

[lightman]

Contrast the depth of this Synodical Bishop’s Advent message with the drivel served up by Presiding Bishop Hanson, which I posted earlier this evening.

[Nosterrex]

There is much with which I agree with Bishop Easton, but he is still ignoring the elephant in the room. I would like to know why he is not calling homosexuals to repent? What about perverting God's Word and misleading his flock? Do these not need repentance? It is very easy to talk about repentance, but I want to know for what we should be repenting?

[rhema]

I am convinced that this is not a financial crisis, nor is it a membership recruitment crisis. It is a spiritual crisis. We have coasted in this church and its predecessors for generations. We cling to a nostalgic image of the church that we remember from our childhood. And since the average church-going Lutheran is twenty years older than the average U.S population, that childhood was a long time ago.

A good start, but he needs a different verb: "We have drifted, intentionally so, from the Bible in this church because we have loved the praises of men more than the praise of God . . . ."

[Honorary Serb]

Elizabeth Eaton is that tyrannical pseudo-bishop who “enforced church discipline on schismatic congregations” by forbidding dual membership in LCMC and ELCA.

I hope that ALL the congregations involved did the right thing and left the ELCA!!!

Eaton comes out of the hyper-liberal “gay”/feminazi combination of Harvard Divinity School and University “Lutheran” “Church”, Cambridge, MA. It figures.

Our Orthodox (OCA) Bishop also called our diocese’s loss of membership and money over the years a “spiritual crisis”. He was right. But the real issue is all too many cradle Orthodox and lukewarm converts who have thrown away the inestimable treasure of Orthodoxy to join the morass of our society, and in some cases even to become Episcopalians. Meanwhile, so many others desire the treasure of Holy Orthodoxy, and become converts. Gospodi pomilui!

On a very happy note, one of our member who left the Orthodox Church to become Episcopalian returned! May many more do so. And our little congregation has many 20- and 30-somethings, including families with a growing number of young children. We have many teens as well. Thanks and praise to God!!

The REAL spiritual crisis in the ELCA is something else entirely, of course.