Territorial Bloggings

Some people might be wondering just what the big deal was/is about what the ELCA did at their Churchwide Assembly (CWA).

Is it that it was about homosexuality? Same-sex unions? Homosexual clergy?

While those are all sinful things, they are actually just symptoms, side issues if you will, of what the real problem is.

The real apostacy is this: ELCA has knowingly broken with Scripture (and secondarily with Confessions & Tradition) as the sole authoritative normative measure. IOW, God’s Word has been knowingly set aside.

Witness this quote from a write-up on the CWA, describing an amendment to the Social Statement on Human Sexuality that was adopted (both the amendment and then the amended Statement were adopted):

“The next amendment came from Bp. Kurt Kusserow, SW PA:

It must be noted that some, though not all, in this church and within the larger Christian community, conclude that marriage is also the appropriate term to use in describing similar benefits, protection, and support for same-gender couples entering into lifelong monogamous relationships. The proposed amendment would change this to Recognizing that this conclusion differs from the historic Christian tradition and the Lutheran Confessions, some people though not all, in this church and within the larger Christian community, conclude that marriage is also the appropriate term to use in describing similar benefits, protection, and support for same-gender couples entering into lifelong monogamous relationships.

On this there was no speaking other than that of Bp. Kusserow. The amendment was approved 677-276.”

The Assembly knew what it was doing. They wanted to do this, and nothing was going to stop them from doing it, so that sin could be called good. The Revisionist agenda was not to be denied, no matter the cost.

I pray for the faithful remnant that is left in ELCA, that God may comfort them and strengthen them during this time, leading them to a place where they can once again rest in his Word purely preached and his Sacrament rightly administered, where the fellowship is not perverted. I also pray that those who have done this are brought to repentance, so that they might be led to that very same place of rest.

-ghp