tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post1103301998606461883..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: What does liberal mean. . . Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-20515903551628165112018-05-08T11:10:05.214-05:002018-05-08T11:10:05.214-05:00Liberalism is a mental illness.Liberalism is a mental illness.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-41360947776558959192018-05-07T21:12:27.030-05:002018-05-07T21:12:27.030-05:00"Liberal" church bodies make bold change..."Liberal" church bodies make bold changes based on "social justice" and then lose members as a result. Rather than step back and re-evaluate, the leaders double-down and lose even more members. It is fascinating that the ELCA leaders do not comprehend that they caused this mess. They refuse to acknowledge that they could begin reversing the downward trend by returning the ELCA to the 1958-era doctrines of the predecessor bodies. Alas, the leaders are too proud to admit the ELCA experiment was a flop.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-54768444365028575702018-05-05T21:20:57.818-05:002018-05-05T21:20:57.818-05:00"What does liberal mean. . ."
A "p...<b>"What does liberal mean. . ."</b><br /><br /><a href="https://www.macucc.org/files/images/keynote1.jpg" rel="nofollow">A "pastor" like this</a>.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-41951367726692274002018-05-05T18:12:05.722-05:002018-05-05T18:12:05.722-05:00Translation: Your truth is not my truth and there...Translation: Your truth is not my truth and there are no absolutes. Ethics and morality are based on situations and the context of culture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-24825698103039329112018-05-05T10:20:07.737-05:002018-05-05T10:20:07.737-05:00As the 2009 XXXA Church Wide Assembly wrapped up t...As the 2009 XXXA Church Wide Assembly wrapped up their meeting which had approved ordaining active homosexuals two days earlier, on Friday, August 21, 2009, Rev. Matthew Harrison <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mft66uHsaMg&t=9m16s" rel="nofollow">answered a question</a> (at 9:16) from Rev. Todd Wilken on <i>Issues, Etc.</i>:<br /><br /><b>Wilken:</b> "Is apostasy too strong a word to describe what we’ve watched over the last — better part — of the decade that culminates this afternoon in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America?"<br /><b>Harrison:</b> “No, it is apostasy. There’s no way around it. It gives me great pain to say that, but there’s no other word for it.”<br /><br />In 2012 the CTCR, along with President Harrison as one of the advisory members, issued a <a href="http://lcms.org/Document.fdoc?src=lcm&id=1820" rel="nofollow">Response</a> report on the XXXA, which stated, "The ELCA has now taken this step, embodying apostasy from the faith once delivered to the saints.”<br /><br />These statements indicate that the "liberal" XXXA is not a Lutheran religious organization, nor is it even considered a Christian religious organization (although there may be Christians within it). Missouri Synod pastors should baptize any children coming from the apostate XXXA, who claim to have been "baptized" in the XXXA after 2009, just as converts from the Mormon church are baptized in the Christian church.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-68292472765170672062018-05-05T06:25:27.140-05:002018-05-05T06:25:27.140-05:00Essentially and fundamentally, ELCA self identifie...Essentially and fundamentally, ELCA self identifies itself as an apostate body. As with similar churches today, they usually get worse, becoming arrogant and more rebellious to the word of God day by day. John Joseph Flanaganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06596324816480709495noreply@blogger.com