Posted on 08/13/2022 6:53:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) top bishop has formally apologized on behalf of the denomination to a delegation from a Spanish-speaking “Latine” congregation whose pastor was abruptly fired last year by a transgender bishop.
“This is an opportunity to remind ourselves of all of the anti-racist commitments and apologies we have made as a church and to offer a public recommitment to become an anti-racist church,” Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton told voting members at the denomination’s Churchwide Assembly in Columbus, Ohio.
The August 8-12 Assembly included a series of apologies for systemic racism as well as for mistreatment of indigenous peoples.
The Churchwide Assembly is the primary decision-making body of the mainline Lutheran denomination. It follows in-person and hybrid conferences this summer of the Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (USA) and Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops. United Methodists delayed their General Conference a third time until 2024, citing COVID-related challenges.
The Rev. Nelson Rabell-González was fired by Bishop Megan Marie Rohrer as pastor of Iglesia Luterana Santa Maria Peregrina in Stockton, California this past December. Charges of ecclesiastical abuse swirled around the firing, with Rabell-González appealing directly to Eaton.
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I guess that nails it!
That’s a man a very ugly man
Satan on parade.
In case you are an inquirer about Christianity:
This is not it.
When you see the fruit associated with folks having been turned over to a depraved mind on display, take warning and realize their spiritual condition that the fruit in their lives is shouting at you ... and flee from having fellowship with such persons.
Even before that person was elevated in leadership and it was obvious that they would not repent when called to do so, then no matter what office they claimed to hold they should have been put out of the church ... and if the hierarchy of men won’t put him out then the faithful should leave and go elsewhere.
No building, or whatever, is worth the price that comes from continued fellowship with such persons.
ELCA is lost. I THINK Missouri and Wisconsin synods are solid, that’s it.
They’ll let anyone call themselves a “church” no matter how decadent
Same thing with a “minister”.
If the ELCA wasn’t anti-Christ, one might wonder.
When the powers and principalities take over your church, weird stuff happens.
Anti-racism IS racist. It involves intentionally making judgements about a person’s actions based solely on race. There is nothing more racist than that.
I was raised in this denomination. When I was 18, I left that church. That was waaaay back in the 70’s and they were hypocrites then. They voted out our pastor after he admitted being an alcoholic. Instead of standing by him and helping him recover and pray for him, they got rid of him. He never came to church at any time drunk or even with alcohol on his breath. One of the things that got me angry is that there were people that voted to oust him that were adulterers and remarried to other people and there were a few! Sat in church like they were holier than thou. Never went back.
ELCA isn’t really Lutheran.
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