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ELCA Update From Rev. Dennis Di Mauro

3/18/2019

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A Biblical look at some of the ELCA's Teachings (video)

11/29/2018

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Also highlights ELCA pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber.
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Reverend Bolz-Weber leaves her ELCA Lutheran congregation in hands of homosexual pastor "married" to a drag queen

8/17/2018

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(The following article was written by Rev. Tom Brock of pastorsstudy.org. You can follow Pastor Brock on Facebook - here and Twitter - here.)

Reverend Bolz-Weber leaves her ELCA Lutheran congregation in hands of homosexual pastor "married" to a drag queen

You can't make this stuff up.  Last month Bolz-Weber promoted "the beauty of queerness" to 31,000 teenagers at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Teen Gathering, and now this.  I"m not sure how much lower the ELCA can sink.  How God must grieve.

If you are still a member of the ELCA I ask you to ask yourself "If this doesn't get me to leave the ELCA, what will?"  May the Lord lead you to join a denomination which doesn't promote immorality (and which also doesn't pay for abortion with offering dollars).

Sincerely in Christ,

Pastor Tom Brock


http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/08/16/nadia-bolz-weber-steps-down-from-pastorate-is-replaced-by-gay-man-married-to-drag-queen/


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Nadia Bolz-Weber to Speak at 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering

10/18/2017

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is bringing in Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber to speak at the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering.
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Yes, Nadia Bolz-Weber is the famous ELCA pastor who:

- admits to being a universalist.

- says the Wiccan goddess "never felt to me like a substitute for God but simply another aspect of the divine, like God's aunt or something."

- called the 12 disciples "real f**k-ups."

- said "nobody believes every line of the creed.”

- doesn't believe in the substitutionary atonement of Christ.

- said some of what Paul wrote in the Bible was "not necessarily the Word of God" but just his "snotty opinions." (see here for all the above points)

- swears constantly. 

- supports Planned Parenthood. (see here)

- presided over a re-naming liturgical rite for one of her transgender church members. (see here)

- was the main writer of a document that said “WE DENY that sexual attraction for the same sex is outside the natural goodness of God’s original creation…” and “WE DENY that it is sinful to approve of queer identities and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness.” (see here)

- said "One of the more interesting things folks will say to me is: ‘I’m not religious or anything, I just hope that being a good person is enough.’ To which I always want to say… ‘enough for what?’ … avoiding the punishment of burning in the eternal fires of some kind of imaginary hell?” (see here) 

- signed the Naked and Unashamed statement, part of which said “We are ELCA Lutherans…The plethora of stories we hear in our conversations demonstrate that life and liberty are being oppressed in the pressure for church leaders to be in marital relationships, or otherwise abstain from all sexual intimacy. The common good of both parishioners and church leaders would benefit from the freedom to be in a variety of healthy relationships…” (see here)

​- had a drag queen MC Nadia's church Christmas pageant.

HFASS Epiphany Pageant & Wizards Ball will be MCed by Denver's Shirley Delta Blow! Be there! https://t.co/bbcMXmR55h pic.twitter.com/BVM0VF3MCR

— House for All (@HFASS) January 5, 2016

Here is how things went when Nadia Bolz-Weber spoke at the 2012 ELCA Youth Gathering. 

Teenagers going to the ELCA Youth Gathering will be influenced not just by Nadia Bolz-Weber but by so many ELCA leaders who agree with Nadia. 

Do not send your children to the ELCA Youth Gathering. Doing so is putting your young people's Earthly and eternal lives in danger. (by way of their false teachings, world view and theology)


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Elca Celebrates Sin

7/14/2015

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Last month the United States Supreme Court ruled that there is a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Here is how many leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America responded. 

The ELCA's Bishop Robert Alan Rimbo of the Metropolitan New York says of the recent Supreme Court decision making gay marriage legal in the United States, "in the spirit of Jesus, we applaud the court’s decision. We will continue to embrace all of God’s children as they seek to have their loving relationships blessed by people of good faith." (readhere) 

It's a new day.

Posted by Women of the ELCA on Friday, June 26, 2015

Love my people.

Posted by Nadia Bolz-Weber on Friday, June 26, 2015

Posted by Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago on Friday, June 26, 2015

Last Friday’s Supreme Court decision striking down bans against same-sex marriage “knocks the power out of long-standing...

Posted by Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod (SEPA), ELCA on Monday, June 29, 2015



Below is a tweet from the ELCA Executive for Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations and assistant to the presiding bishop -

#gaymarriage is a thing of the past in the US. From now on only #marriage #SCOTUSMarriage

— Kathryn Lohre (@kathryn_lohre) June 26, 2015


This post on an ELCA Facebook group is from the former president of the ELCA's Wartburg Theological Seminary -

"Duane Larson
1 hr · Princeton, IA
So humbled and privileged that in just a few hours I will preach and preside at the wedding of (two men). A first for this congregation and this community. We expect a packed house. God's timing is superb!"




Rev. Strickland is the Director for Worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America -

#lovewins #MarriageEquaility

— Rev Kevin Strickland (@PrKevinELCA) June 26, 2015


The ELCA's Bishop Guy Erwin of the Southwest California Synod retweeted this - 

Retweet to spread the word. #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/JJ5iCP4ZWn

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 26, 2015

This ELCA Synod offers resources for churches concerning gay marriage from Reconciling Works (an LGBT advocacy organization) and from a transgender ELCA Pastor Megan Rohrer -

Resources to help start congregational conversations about the #MarriageEquality ruling: http://t.co/rZBbvDQDb1 pic.twitter.com/qxSkp4tJ5N

— SouthwesternTX Synod (@SWTSynod) July 9, 2015

The ELCA pastor that moderates a large ELCA Clergy Facebook page tweeted -  

The roll of Christians now is not to defend gay marriage as "allowed", but to celebrate it as beautiful and right and joyous and faithful.

— Clint Schnekloth (@Schnekloth) June 27, 2015

A camp run by an ELCA church posted this - 

#LoveWon to the LGBTQ community we won't stop advocating for you remember you are always welcome here #IamLutheran pic.twitter.com/DJLpzQXFPG

— Bay Lake Camp (@BayLakeCamp) June 26, 2015

Drove by a Lutheran church that has raised the rainbow flag. #lovewins

— Nina Chadha (@ninachad) June 28, 2015

In downtown St. Pete and I see a Lutheran church decorated with gay pride flags and signs welcoming same sex marriage #LoveWins

— Mollz Manier (@mollzmanier) June 27, 2015

Some ELCA Gay Pride Parade marchers - 

16 Lutheran pastors who marched in #SeattlePride with #opendoorministries #iamlutheran pic.twitter.com/sGhirj91Bq

— Jenna Carodiskey (@gojirama) June 29, 2015

Ready to march in the #Pride parade! #PrideSTL #LoveWins #Lutheran pic.twitter.com/dhJXxtNzMb

— Bethel Church ELCA (@BethelSTL_Org) June 28, 2015

Napa Lutheran church is flying the rainbow flag for Pride! #LoveIsGreaterThan religious dogma pic.twitter.com/4Q0O295i0p

— Sophia Cole (@sofeacola) June 15, 2015

See you at the Pride Parade in Seattle. Immanuel Lutheran will be there!

— Immanuel Lutheran (@ImmanuelSeattle) June 26, 2015

 

From Gustavus Adolphus College -

Come see the Gustavus booth at the Twin Cities Pride Festival in Loring Park, Minneapolis. The Gustavus booth will be...

Posted by Gustavus Adolphus College on Friday, June 26, 2015
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Nadia Bolz-Weber Filth

10/31/2014

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@sheselevated @FoxNews "he waits like he's got all of eternity" I fucking love this! Gorgeous.

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 27, 2014
The following comes from ELCA pastor, author and speaker Nadia Bolz-Weber. Her theology is heretical and her beliefs are immoral (see here) and what comes out of her mouth is ugly. ("What goes into someone's mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them." - Mathew 15:11)

Nadia Bolz-Weber is scheduled in 2015 to speak at the ELCA Luther Seminary’s 2015 Mid-Winter Convocation “Spiritual but Not Religious;” Discovery, Reflection and Vocation at the ELCA's Bethany College;
Visiting Writers Series/Institute for Faith and Learning at the ELCA's Lenoir-Rhyne University and the next day at the ELCA's Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary;
Festival of Homiletics (Luther Seminary) at the Colorado Convention Center and the ELCA Worship Jubilee. (see here)


Explicit language warning:

@hollywoodhwife @amazon actually that is just Amazon fucking with Hachette Book Group (my publisher) they are in a fight.

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 28, 2014

@bookbeaut me too. i'm fucking miserable.

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 10, 2014

Just noticed that I have 7 weeks at home starting Nov 21st. Holy shit, that is some good news right there!!!

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) September 24, 2014

This. pic.twitter.com/r2VeYdkVpr

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 1, 2014

I basically never feel like I have my shit together.

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 5, 2014

Do NOT fuck with the church ladies here. #hfass pic.twitter.com/mn7U9kkkB6

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 8, 2014

ever wondered what a iphone5c would look like if you were a dumbass & left it on top of the car and it got ran over? pic.twitter.com/Aau0kBNP4e

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 10, 2014

The 3.5 hours of lecturing I'm doing in Mi today is brought to you by the 3.5 hours of sleep I got last night. And...a shit-ton of coffee.

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 10, 2014

My friend, John Lynch @MrJCLynch is a really nice guy, but holy shit does he play a terrifying clown http://t.co/zMsKKdWeDB #TwistyTheClown

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 24, 2014

pic.twitter.com/Q8eOpTe8Dv

— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) October 9, 2014
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Who is Teaching ELCA Leadership?

1/22/2014

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Teachers have great influence on those they teach, so subjecting your mind to a sound Biblical teacher is of great importance to any Christian.

Not so in the ELCA...

The ELCA's Northeastern Iowa Synod announced that this week Bishop Steven Ullestad would be "Learning from Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber about outreach to the generations." (see here)

Do you know who Nadia Bolz-Weber is and what she believes?

Rev. Bolz-Weber writes in her new book "Pastrix" that the goddess of Wicca is "simply another aspect of the divine, like God's aunt or something." (see here)

She has also said -

- "oh my god, nobody believes every line of the creed.” (see here)

- "And just to be clear: The cross is not about God as divine child abuser sadly sending his little boy off to be killed because we were bad and well, somebody had to pay." (see here)

- "I know it's a big deal to like build faith in home; we don't do that." (see here)

-  "I think that there is a really insipid message to girls when you use the exclusive male pronoun for God..." (see here)



"I confess that I am a Christo-centric universalist. What that means to me is that, whatever God was accomplishing, especially on the cross, that Christological event, was for the restoration and redemption and reconciliation of all things and all people and all Creation – everyone. Whatever God was getting done there, that is for everyone. How God manages to play that out through other religions, other symbol systems, I will never understand. I have to allow for the idea that God is actually nimble enough and powerful enough and creative enough to do that.” See here

“. . . Preaching hopefully in some way is the word of God, speaking is not. So I thought, I wonder, we can look at Paul that way. You know like sometimes he was just going off on his snotty opinions, he has some authority to speak on it but that’s not necessarily the Word of God.” from here

That is what Bolz-Weber believes, yet the Northeastern Iowa Synod's writes that "she is a prophet and a gift to our church." (see here)

It is not just an ELCA bishop that sits under ELCA pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber's instruction. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has cast Bolz-Weber into the role of "teacher" to their leadership and youth.  She is highly revered by the ELCA.  She speaks to ELCA synod assemblies, ELCA National youth gatherings and ELCA conferences. (see here)

Nadia Bolz-Weber isn't the only ELCA chosen high profile instructor/speaker/teacher who openly teaches against Scriptural truth.  Highly controversial scholars Marcus Borg (see here) and John Dominic Crossan (see here) are also Evangelical Lutheran Church in America favorites.

People of the ELCA, with these kinds of teachers is there any question what kind of ELCA pastor they will produce?

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    "Then he (Joshua) took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the LORD.

    'See!' he said to all the people. 'This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God.'
    Joshua 24:26-27


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