New Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Breaks Ground.

[Johnboy60]

The Rev. Megan Rohrer is the denomination's first openly transgender person in the role.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church's 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada, the AP reports. "My call is ... to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before," Rohrer told the congregation.

New Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Breaks Ground

 

[Sword of the Lord]

My dad texted me with a screenshot of this earlier and he said "we're truly in the final days"

This is an abomination

 

[Jamdoc]

The Rev. Megan Rohrer is the denomination's first openly transgender person in the role.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church's 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada, the AP reports. "My call is ... to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before," Rohrer told the congregation.

New Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Breaks Ground

.. yeah in the sense of breaking ground to open up the pits of hell to bring out the worst on this world maybe...

 

[Sass78]

 

[Servus]

I knew it was going to be something like that just from the title. That's how predictable it's become.

 

[Paulos23]

My dad texted me with a screenshot of this earlier and he said "we're truly in the final days"

This is an abomination

I disagree with both statements.

This has been happening all around us and they are still human. Treading them otherwise is to stay they are not human.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

I disagree with both statements.

This has been happening all around us and they are still human. Treading them otherwise is to stay they are not human.

I don't particularly care to be honest.

 

[ViaCrucis]

The reality is that trans people exist. And I don't think the Christian Church, on the whole, is doing a very good job applying that reality to the full measure of Christian doctrine and teaching. As such the matter is extensively polarizing between reactionary and radical views.

A thoroughly Christian treatment on the subject is needed; but I fail to see how that can really happen in the present climate of reactionism.

Instead the whole matter gets reduced to a another kind of moralistic scheme that ends up being about tribal exclusion rather than being about Jesus, His Gospel, and the Church's message and mission in and to the world.

And I don't know that I'm allowed to say much more than this without getting in trouble on here.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Servus]

LGBT has become a part of the Church. Rainbow flags now fly in place of Christian flags. It's going to continue to progress.

 

[ViaCrucis]

LGBT has become a part of the Church.

Technically, always has been.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Servus]

Technically, always has been.

You know what I mean. Homosexuality etc is being praised, honored and celebrated by the church now.

 

[ViaCrucis]

You know what I mean. Homosexuality etc is being praised, extolled and celebrated by the church now.

I'm not convinced the opposite side of the fence is a better side to be on--biblically, theologically, or ethically.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Servus]

I'm not convinced the opposite side of the fence is a better side to be on--biblically, theologically, or ethically.

I know. Does your church have a rainbow flag in place of a Christian flag yet?

 

[Tinker Grey]

What is it with that contingent that loves bits of fabric.

 

[Belk]

You know what I mean. Homosexuality etc is being praised, honored and celebrated by the church now.

I know! Just like interracial marriage, drinking, and being the wrong denomination it is becoming no big deal. Almost as if religion changes with the social views of the time rather then being a monolithic entity carved in stone. Perhaps if religion stuck to, I don't know, the afterlife and stopped letting itself be hijacked into societal conflict this would stop happening over and over.

 

[Jamdoc]

I disagree with both statements.

This has been happening all around us and they are still human. Treading them otherwise is to stay they are not human.

The absolute last person we'd listen to about morality is an Atheist.
You have no standards for morality, it's just "whatever feels good is good"

 

[Servus]

I know! Just like interracial marriage, drinking, and being the wrong denomination it is becoming no big deal. Almost as if religion changes with the social views of the time rather then being a monolithic entity carved in stone. Perhaps if religion stuck to, I don't know, the afterlife and stopped letting itself be hijacked into societal conflict this would stop happening over and over.

The plan is to make the church a church of worldliness rather than of God.

 

[Jamdoc]

The reality is that trans people exist. And I don't think the Christian Church, on the whole, is doing a very good job applying that reality to the full measure of Christian doctrine and teaching. As such the matter is extensively polarizing between reactionary and radical views.

A thoroughly Christian treatment on the subject is needed; but I fail to see how that can really happen in the present climate of reactionism.

Instead the whole matter gets reduced to a another kind of moralistic scheme that ends up being about tribal exclusion rather than being about Jesus, His Gospel, and the Church's message and mission in and to the world.

And I don't know that I'm allowed to say much more than this without getting in trouble on here.

-CryptoLutheran

The reality is sin exists
but we shouldn't celebrate sin, at all.
and that's what's being done.
LBGT is sin, but different from most other sins, the Church is beginning to celebrate it and that's demonic.
What if Alcoholism, Adultery, Pedophilia were being celebrated in the church?
When's the first full blown non recovered unapologetic alcoholic Bishop gonna be ordained?
or the first "Non offensive MAP" Bishop?
You can't claim to honor God then flaunt sin in His face.

 

[Paulos23]

The absolute last person we'd listen to about morality is an Atheist.
You have no standards for morality, it's just "whatever feels good is good"

Then you don't know me that well.

And you are wrong.

 

[Jamdoc]

Then you don't know me that well.

And you are wrong.

"Atheist" already tells me you don't have God's law as your moral standard.