The following report is from the Associated Press:
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.
My call is … to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before. But mostly, if you’ll let me, and I think you will, my hope is to love you and beyond that, to love what you love.
Rohrer said
Rohrer was elected in May to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod after its current bishop announced his retirement.
I step into this role because a diverse community of Lutherans in Northern California and Nevada prayerfully and thoughtfully voted to do a historic thing. My installation will celebrate all that is possible when we trust God to shepherd us forward.
Rohrer, who uses the pronoun “they,” previously served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco and a chaplain coordinator for the city’s police department, and also helped minister to the city’s homeless and LGTBQ community. They studied religion at Augustana University in their hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, before moving to California to pursue master and doctoral degrees at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.
Rohrer became one of seven LGBTQ pastors accepted by the progressive Evangelical Lutheran church in 2010 after it allowed ordination of pastors in same-sex relationships. Rohrer is married and has two children.
The church is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States with about 3.3 million members.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
“My call is … to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before.” -uh, no.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17
I just got done explaining this in my post about what is true biblical salvation. But this is par for the course for these “Christian” denominations: they do not believe the Bible is authoritative or perfect, so righteousness is quickly replaced with relativism.
The Forgotten Verses Of Salvation
All this is doing is further ushering in God’s judgment on this nation.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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We are the church of the living God, those of us who are saved. Sealed with the Lord’s gift he gave us when we came to him broken, contrite and had godly sorrow.
2Co 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2Co 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
2Co 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
Psalm 58
As if depicting a Bible and a football in bed like they were “doing it” to promote their retarded super (toilet) bowl of preaching wasn’t bad enough! Now, we got some asexual what cha-ma-call-it Lutheran minister of Satan. Bryan’s wife Kathryn came out of that Catholic clone cult!
I was just thinking about that…….Bryan’s wife was very fortunate to get out of the freak show the Lutheran “church” has become.
She’s truly blessed and she’s a blessing to Bryan as well even and they have a wonderful strong boy named Oliver who will be like them and a true believer too!
Disgusting. I went to a Lutheran school growing up. Hardly different from the Catholic Church, no teaching of Scripture, just ritualistic garbage and Sunday Mass(acre).
Psalm 11:5-7 (KJV) The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
It can’t love what I love. Obviously hates & despises the Lord Jesus Christ according to the scriptures as demonstrated by its lack of repentance & belief, & is its own god. Luther got some things right. He did say that the schools would prove the very gates of Hell were the scriptures not permitted & taught there….though the Augustinian & ‘sin boldly’ footnotes got in the way, at least men weren’t utterly ignorant of the word itself.
It does not surprise me but it still makes me sick!
This country deserves every bit of God’s wrath!
So a WOMAN finds it sexist to allow only MEN to be preachers, so she changes herself into a MAN so she can be a preacher, to show how both men and women are equal…
NUTTIER THAN A PECAN PIE!!!