February 27, 2009

As I was getting around today I read an article where the Lutheran church was thinking about ordaining a Homosexual pastor and agreeing to marry same sex couples in their churches.

(Lutherans Considering Gay Clergy

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released two reports last week containing recommendations regarding allowing Lutheran clergy to perform same-sex marriages and allowing churches to call a homosexual minister to serve as pastor. The two documents, prepared by the 15-member Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality, will be reviewed by the Church Council in March and then debated at the 2009 Church wide Assembly in Minneapolis in August.

Since 1991, gays and lesbians have been allowed to serve as clergy in the ELCA as long as they remain celibate. If adopted by the church, the new policy would allow people living in "publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships" to serve as clergy.

But not all Lutherans are happy about the possible alterations to church policy. Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick, president of the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, expressed "great disappointment and deep sadness" over the proposal. In a letter to his 2.5 million member denomination, Kieschnick said that the changes "would constitute a radical departure from the 2,000-year-long teaching of the Christian tradition that homosexual activity, whether inside or outside of a committed relationship, is contrary to Holy Scripture."

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is the nation's largest Lutheran denomination with 4.7 million members. For further information about the proposals, visit www.elca.org and www.lcms.org. )

This is the article I was speaking about.

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ with all the understanding of the happenings in the scriptures don’t we get what it means because of the hardening of their heart, this means we would not Harkin to the Word of GOD. The Church of Jesus the Christ in these United States is really that worldly. Do we have to do what is politically correct to stay afloat? Are the times we live in making us willing to do what ever to bring people in to support us and keep the doors open if this is true then we need to close our doors and go to the caves and PRAY like there is no tomorrow. 

I say we need to rally together in one accord and bring righteous understanding and be an example to our world and we need to start in our own back yard. It is not that we hate those who oppose the Word of God or those who discredit the ways of God we are to love the person but hate the sin to come against sin with all our strength and ability. Let me remind you again Scripture says we are to heal the sick, save the lost and set the captives free!

Pastor Frank Porter