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ELCA Mega Church Pastor Mike Housholder Attacks Fundamentalists in Sermon

10/5/2020

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a dying, pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-transgender, anti-Israel, sanctuary denomination, that teaches universalism (all people go to heaven), that often refers to God as "she" and refrains from using male words for Him, dismisses many Biblical accounts, does not evangelize but advocates for the most liberal social causes. 

Mike Housholder is an ELCA pastor at the ELCA's largest church, Lutheran Church of Hope (West Des Moines, Iowa).  Rev. Housholder and Lutheran Church of Hope embrace their affiliation with the ELCA. They even hosted their ELCA synod's assembly 2 months ago. I have not come across one public statement by Pastor Housholder or his mega church, in the last 10 years where he speaks a word of correction, pleads with or calls for repentance of the ELCA for its wickedness. That should tell you a lot. 

​Earlier this year, in a sermon, Pastor Mike Housholder lifted up an ELCA leader, who was instrumental in bringing approval of same-sex marriage to the ELCA, yet spoke condemnation of people Housholder labeled as "
self-righteous fundamentalist(s)."

Cambridge Dictionary defines "fundamentalist" as
 "someone who believes in traditional forms of a religion, or believes that what is written in a holy book, such as the Christian Bible, is completely true."
Just before addressing the "fundamentalist(s)", Housholder shared a very peculiar story in his sermon, where he relayed an account of his observing an atheist's warmhearted comments in reaction to seeing the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar."
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Then bizarrely, Rev. Housholder puts on a grotesque  face and mockingly shares how a Christian may "badly" witness to the said atheist (see video below at the 13:30 minute mark).  I believe this is an interesting precursor to what followed next, with Pastor Mike Housholder's comments about fundamentalists. 

Read the rest of this important article here...
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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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'Revolution and the Spirits'

1/14/2018

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What kind of pastor talks about drawing "upon the Holy Spirit and the Spirits" or writes about  "Revolution" and uses the hashtag "#BurnItDown?" An Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor, of course. ELCA Rev. Kwame Pitts posted this on her Facebook page:
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And just a few days ago ELCA pastor Pitts attended "The Mystic Soul Conference." Just another normal day in the life of a normal ELCA pastor. 

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The ELCA Should Be Embarrassed

11/7/2017

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ELCA pastor Lura Groen shared this vile post by Wil Gafney, former associate professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the ELCA's Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (LTSP):

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Exposing the ELCA, our sister website, is very familiar with both Lura Groen (see here) and Wil Gafney (see here). They are an embarrassment even by ELCA standards.  

​UPDATE: 

I posted this on an ELCA clergy page and here are some responses:
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ELCA Pastor Praises Allah

2/24/2017

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Today I posted the article "Minnesota: Terror-linked Muslim group opens offices inside Bethany Lutheran Church" (see here) on an ELCA clergy Facebook page. In the comment section under my post ELCA pastor Paul Christ praises the Muslim false god. See screenshot below:
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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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The Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Said What?

5/21/2013

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The ELCA is in full communion with the Episcopal Church.

Take a few minutes to read what Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, said in a recent sermon.  Here is a report about the presiding bishop's message, and here is the complete sermon.


How about a sneak peak? The Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop instructed:
  • Based on Acts 16, Paul was blind to what God was doing when he exorcised the demon from a slave girl.
  • Paul deprives the demonically possessed slave girl "of her gift of spiritual awareness."
  • The leader of the Episcopal Church then says, "Paul can’t abide something he won’t see as beautiful or holy, so he tries to destroy it.  It gets him thrown in prison.  That’s pretty much where he’s put himself by his own refusal to recognize that she, too, shares in God’s nature, just as much as he does – maybe more so!,”

There is more said by the Presiding Episcopal Bishop so please read the above links. 


As mentioned above, the ELCA is in full communion with the Episcopal Church.  The ELCA's official website explains what 'full communion' means. It says:

'Full communion' means a mutual recognition that the partner churches hold 'the essentials of the Christian faith' within the catholic and apostolic tradition. In such a relationship, according to 'Called to Common Mission,' neither church 'seeks to remake the other in its own image, but each is open to the gifts of the other as it seeks to be faithful to Christ and his mission. They are together committed to a visible unity in the church's mission to proclaim the Word and administer the Sacraments' ('Called to Common Mission,' paragraph 2).

Full communion describes a relationship in which the partner churches fully recognize each other as part of the whole Church of Jesus Christ and seek to cooperate with each other in witness, life, and service. Mutual recognition of Baptism and a sharing of the Lord's Supper, allowing for joint worship and an exchangeability of members, also are part of a relationship of full communion." (see here)



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Who Decides Marriage

9/8/2012

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Who Decides Marriage from pastorstudy on GodTube.

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ELCA Synod Calls LCMC Schismatic

4/27/2012

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The ELCA's Southeastern Iowa Synod issued a statement in their weekly newsletter concerning the Southeastern Iowa Synod Council's removal of St. Mark's Lutheran church (Marion, IA) from the roster of ELCA congregations.  Within the statement it says, "The congregation is being served by a pastor of LCMC, a church body considered to promote separation (schismatic) from the ELCA." (see here)

This is interesting to me because firstly they openly claim that the LCMC promotes separation from the ELCA.  What are the facts that support this allegation?  The fact of the matter is that this congregation, which the synod took action against, is dual-affiliated with the ELCA and LCMC.  The LCMC is fine with the dual-affiliation, yet the ELCA is not.  Who here is promoting separation from whom? 

Secondly, the reason this congregation's pastor is a LCMC-rostered pastor is because last month the Southeastern Iowa Synod bishop, Michael Burk, removed this pastor from the ELCA clergy roster. (see here)


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For Struggling Pastors

11/23/2010

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To all pastors in the ELCA or elsewhere who are facing persecution and attacks, who are under enormous stress, who are called names and have been betrayed by friends because you stand on God's Word and refuse to compromise God's truth. . .     Well done faithful servant. We stand with you. You are in our prayers. You are not alone.

Psalm 119:157
Many are the foes who persecute me, but I have not turned from your statutes.

Psalm 119:161
Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles at your word.

Hebrews 10:33
Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.

Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

2 Corinthians 4:7-10
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

2 Corinthians 12:10
That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

1 Peter 4:12-16
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.


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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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