FOXNews.com – Gay Lutheran Pastors to Join Church Roster.
So where does it end? Do we now admit idol worshipers into the ministry because they deserve the same respect?
Everyone should be welcomed into the church family as members with the recognition that everyone sins, but to allow leadership roles to those who blatantly defy God’s word, publicly and proudly, goes directly against what the ministry of Christ is about. You don’t put leadership in the hand of these people. Apparently there are already some in the leadership or this wouldn’t have come to fruition in the first place.
The Church isn’t about making people feel good about themselves or political correctness. It’s about doing your best to live as God has commanded and getting the support structure and guidance from others who actually try to follow the Word as well. I’ve seen this coming for a long time and as a member of an ELCA congregation it will be interesting to see how our church reacts to it. I’m afraid that it will pass with nothing more than a small rumble as so many similar problems have in the past and it saddens me greatly.
I know that we have homosexuals in our membership. Some are out and some are not. None that I know of make a ruckus about “inclusion” in anything. They come and worship as we all do. They shouldn’t be excluded from worship because we all sin every day. They also shouldn’t be recognized as leaders of the church because they blatantly practice what is forbidden by God. When man continues to hack away at God’s word and His most basic teachings, it becomes a church of man and not of God.
My dilemma is that there doesn’t seem to be any middle ground for Christian faiths. The Baptists are too far in one direction along with Catholics and it seems that most of the others are caving in to political correctness over Godly teachings. Why have we come the point where there doesn’t seem to be moderation in anything? In politics it’s the same. You are either too far in one direction or too far in the other direction. Christianity has become the same way. The ELCA for me was a happy medium, though you could see its leanings over the past several years with all of its “exploratory committees” studying whether or not you can defy the bible directly and still be accepted as a leader of the church, etc. What bullshit!
So here we are again, destroying ourselves in the name of political correctness. You cannot give in to the enemy (those trying to water down the faith) and still call yourself a worker for God. Making your neighbor happy isn’t the way to make God happy when the price is the true nature of your faith. We have been infiltrated and will fall from within. We all have our decisions to make and I can see that mine aren’t going to be easy. I’ve loved my church and my church family for 12 years now and I do not want to say goodbye, but I will if something isn’t done in response to this. I won’t be a party to financing or supporting a ministry that worries more about political correctness than staying true to the Word of God.