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* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Keep a Good Lent!
Posted on 03/11/2011 1:21:21 PM PST by SmithL
Two Aberdeen police officers were called to a meeting Thursday night at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, which is considering leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The second vote on the issue will be taken this Sunday at 10 a.m.
Jack Hieb, president of the church’s congregation council, asked that the police be called during the meeting, which was held in the Fellowship Hall.
The meeting was held to give individuals the opportunity to be considered members for Sunday’s election, Hieb said.
He said he knew the meeting was going to be contentious. Two people, he said, continued to disrupt the meeting after they were heard, he said.
One of those individuals, Jon Fogarty, said Friday that “there was full-blown college hazing” during the meeting. He said church leaders are trying to limit the membership.
I’m not even going to speculate which side any of these folks are on. It is obvious that the actions of the ELCA continue to cause much pain and heartache in congregations all across the country.
A good argument for keeping decent church membership records at all times. It makes a difference.
I know a pastor who had people come to vote at a meeting who had literally not stepped inside the church in forty years.
When my Church starts having Homosexual Bishops and performing marriages for homosexuals I will either find a new Church or quit going and hold my own Sunday services.
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Keep a Good Lent!
I wonder what the reference to "college hazing" meant, but I guess we weren't meant to know.
Drat, I wanted all the juicy details of the meeting, LOL.
Leni
Such fellowship this ELCA abandonment of the Bible hath wrought.
"Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements that oppose the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them."
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