Lutheran (ELCA) Ping!
Posted on 06/29/2007 3:05:08 PM PDT by lightman
Synod assembly season is finished – on now to Churchwide
FROM Emily Eastwood, Executive Director:
Dear Members of LC/NA and the RIC Community,
Now that the synod assembly season has concluded, time is of the essence as we move forward with our plans for Churchwide Assembly. With an unprecedented 23 synods representing 40% of the membership of the ELCA passing memorials to move the church toward full inclusion, we have the best chance yet to make real progress in August. Here's the dope:
1. Please come to Chicago for the assembly. The dates are August 6–11, 2007.
2. Please register as a visitor on the ELCA website. Cost is $50/person. Visitor status will allow you access to the visitor section of ELCA plenary hall and ELCA worship events. Register through www.elca.org, click on Churchwide Assembly. Registration ends July 15!
3. Please volunteer. Register to volunteer through www.goodsoil.org. Volunteer opportunities are described there.
4. If you are a voting member willing to network for full participation, please register through www.goodsoil.org as a voting member.
5. Housing is available at the Hyatt Regency through the ELCA. Register online for a room. The rate is $118/night plus tax. If you have a room and need a roommate give us that information when you register through www.goodsoil.org. Alternative housing recommendations are also available on the website.
6. The schedule of events is now available through www.goodsoil.org. But here are the highlights:
1. Tuesday – ELCA hearings on the Sexuality Study.
2. Tuesday – Educational session at the Hyatt following the hearings with Pastor Bradley Schmeling and members of his congregation in Atlanta.
3. Wednesday – earliest possible day for ELCA quasi-committee of the whole regarding memorials on blessings, delay, policy change, and refraining from discipline.
4. Wednesday – 8:00 pm Festival Worship at the Hyatt with Pastor Bradley Schmeling preaching. Reception following.
5. Thursday – possible day for ELCA debate on memorials – all hands on deck for silent prayer vigil in the hall.
6. Thursday evening following ELCA workshops at the Hyatt – Full display of the Shower of Stoles project with reception for voting members and visitors.
7. Friday – possible day for debate if not complete on Thursday
8. Friday – evening party for all goodsoil allies at the Hyatt
Remember the ultimate outcome is assured. Only the time, the when it happens, is in question. Win or lose in 2007, we will make history and real progress toward full inclusion. Come be a part of this chapter in the movement for full participation.
– Emily Eastwood, Executive Director
Believing, teaching, and confessing that "He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead....", indeed, there is an ultimate, eternal outcome assured for those who pervert the Word of God and glory in their shame.
First they demaand all citizens accept nonreality as reality, now they demand it of Churches. If the ECKA accets this make believe doctine, they are no longer of Church. A Temple of Satan perhaps, but not a Church.
Hmmmmmmm I was doing a spell check and it zipped right into post, don’t know how, maybe a glitch. Sorry for the typos.
toward full inclusion,
Is a buzzword for what? I'm guessing homosexuality.
Full inclusion is a nice way of saying ordination for non-celibate gays. By asking them to be chaste we are excluding them from full participation in the life of the church.
The ELCA is obsessed with homosexuality. Nothing else matters except accepting homosexuality, including the ordination of homosexuals and the “blessing” or “marriage” of homosexuals.
"But the practical result of this principle is one on which there is no need of speculating; it works in one unvarying way. When error is admitted into the Church, it will be found that the stages of its progress are always three. It begins by asking toleration. Its friends say to the majority: You need not be afraid of us; we are few and weak; only let us alone; we shall not disturb the faith of others. The Church has her standards of doctrine; of course we shall never interfere with them; we only ask for ourselves to be spared interference with our private opinions. Indulged in this for a time, error goes on to assert equal rights. Truth and error are two balancing forces. The Church shall do nothing which looks like deciding between them; that would be partiality. It is bigotry to assert any superior right for the truth. We are to agree to differ and any favoring of the truth, because it is truth, is partisanship. What the friends of truth and error hold in common is fundamental. Anything on which they differ is “ipso facto” non-essential. Anybody who makes account of such a thing is a disturber of the peace of the church. Truth and error are two co-ordinate powers, and the great secret of church-statesmanship is to preserve the balance between them. From this point error soon goes on to its natural end, which is to assert supremacy. Truth started with tolerating; it comes to be merely tolerated and that only for a time. Error claims a preference for its judgments on all disputed points. It puts men into position, not as at first in spite of their departure from the Church’s faith, but in consequence of it. Their recommendation is that they repudiate that faith, and position is given them to teach others to repudiate it, and make them skillful in combating it." (pp. 195-196)
From: “THE CONSERVATIVE REFORMATION AND ITS THEOLOGY as represented in the Augsburg Confession and in the history and literature of the Evangelical Lutheran Church” by Charles P. Krauth, D.D. (1871). [Note date]
Note all travel involved, arranging for hotel meeting rooms, food (potlucks are not possible under these circumstances), etc. That takes money, and they are well-funded. Perhaps, if they act like the secular "gay" organizations that are funded by the same people and foundations, they will lobby (including slick campaign materials), twist the arms of, and perhaps bribe delegates with perks to go their way. That takes more money.
What is the source of their funding? They are funded by filthy New World Order money!!!! Not only are the gaysbians corrupting the Lutheran church with gross immorality and false doctrine, but they are selling us out to the NWO!!!!
Yes, all people--us included--will have to face the dread judgment seat of Christ. But there may well be a penultimate outcome that the gaysbians, feminazis, "inclusive-language" liturgical heretics, "all-are-welcome" hymnwriters, and their enablers will not like one bit. If the gaysbians and feminazis "win", they may see rank-and-file ELCA laypeople and pastors leaving the ELCA rapidly and in great numbers-for LCMC, Missouri, evangelical Protestant churches, the Orthodox Church, and the Roman Catholic Church.
Then the "gay"- and feminazi-enabling ELCA mis-leaders will be left holding the bag with smaller numbers of congregations consisting mainly of freakish perverts, goddess-worshipers, unitarians, the confused, and those "too old to move". Perhaps there will be more than a few muslim infiltrators as well, trying to convert the most vulnerable of the latter three groups to islam. Meanwhile, those Lutherans who have left the ELCA will be fighting all that the ELCA heretics stand for, only more effectively because they won't be saddled with the heavy baggage that the ELCA mis-leaders saddle us with.
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