ELCA Churchwide Assembly - Live thread

8/8/05 | aberaussie

[aberaussie]

The first half was heavily traditionalist and the second was heavily revisionist. The traditionalists were so well spoken, I was just extremely impressed.

[sockmonkey]

**A thread on 'Renewing Worship', if you haven't seen it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1452064/posts **

Okay, I went to that thread, and then to the pdf that shows the revisions to the hymns (all 600 plus pages of it). Obviously the ELCA has been taken over by Satan's minions, aliens from another planet, or by those who want to remake God in their own image, and have a feel good church of the Great "whatever we think is hip".

I called my still a Lutheran Mom afterwards, and was reading her some of the hymns, and their scarcely recognizable revisions..Sorry, but when they changed chariots of wrath to thunderclouds in my favorite hymn, I just became totally PO'd at them.

I'd like to nail 95 theses to their heads with railroad spikes.

[aberaussie]

For the Lutheran Live thread:

Resolution 1 passed. No surprise there.

We are now debating amendments and substitutions to Resolution 2. The first substitution basically authorized congregations to allow their pastors to bless couples in covenanted unions. After more than an hour of debate, it failed 67% to 33%. The original resolution is still before us, with several more amendments/substitutions to debate.

The voting members decided to limit debate on subsequent amendments/substitutions to twenty minutes. Debate on the original resolutions will not be so limited.

Please keep praying, folks!

[aberaussie]

I was pulled aside today by someone who works in the ELCA Chicago office who told me word has it that the Goodsoil action at the assembly today was a set up approved by the presiding bishop. Don't know more than what I was told. I have no way of substantiating it more than that, except that another person told me that it had been arranged in advance that no arrests would be made.