Posted on 04/26/2010 2:16:51 PM PDT by SmithL
Mary Sanders, right, presents a gift to pianist Colleen Van Egmond-Avila at a reception after Sanders' final service at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Galt. Ed Lindquist is at center. Sanders is leaving after 12 years, following her congregation's vote to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
A second Lutheran church in the Lodi-Galt area has voted to leave its parent organization over the sanctioning of sodomy.
Separating the wheat from the tares.
My dad calls the ELCA “the Church of Whatever”.
Exodus
Hey, Mary, don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya. This church is obviously better off getting a pastor that agrees with their desire to adhere to biblical principles.
How can a church be Evangelical and pro gay pastors?
“Come out from among them”-St. Paul
There are clauses in the contract regarding what happens when you walk away from "the plan".
I'm guessing this particular Lutheran priest figured out pretty quickly that her current retirement package is more beneficial in the long run than the new one offered by the new affilation.
What these preachers, priests, and prayer leaders need are portable retirements. Then they wouldn't have to make such ignant looking decisions.
“I believe the spirit led the results of the vote”
The spirit of demons, yeah, but not the Holy Spirit.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America??How can a church be Evangelical and pro gay pastors?
Because "evangelical" doesn't always and in all contexts mean "conservative protestant who aren't the mean fundamentalists".
I would interpret this differently. The ELCA left the scriptures, and a second church in this area voted to stay with scripture. There isn’t a lot of room for honest “interpretation” when it comes to homosexual behavior and scripture, just for reading the Bible and following God’s word or choosing to ignore God’s word.
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
The Church of Psychobabble.
Any “church” with a woman as a pastor (of any sort) is already well down the path to perdition.
She can’t be a great pastor if she believes the pro-gay elca vote, which was ironically preceded by a lightning strike on the cross of the church where they were meeting to vote that morning, was a ‘Holy-Spirit led’ vote.
It was a ‘spirit’ led vote, but not the Holy Spirit. that is for certain.
and of course biblically women are not allowed to be pastors. She could be a great Christian education teacher, just not a pastor.
Did you hear her explanation? She agrees with the pro-gay vote. She said she thinks God made the vote turn out that way.
I take her at her word.
This is a twist on “going Galt.”
It's the retirement package ~ they'll say anything to stay in the good graces of the folks who manage it.
Better to let ELCA keep her priestesses....
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