tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post2594451720926992730..comments2024-02-19T01:24:09.839-06:00Comments on Faultline USA: No Longer Lutheran; No Longer Christian?Faultline USAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-51363629859038035622009-02-23T21:44:00.000-06:002009-02-23T21:44:00.000-06:00Came across this little tidbit while snooping the ...Came across this little tidbit while snooping the web this evening.<BR/>http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=426110<BR/><BR/>I also left the Presbyterian church a long time ago, when they decided murdering babies was ok. <BR/><BR/>I pray for the soul of our country. Evidently, there are too many churches that don't.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09173642175294245534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-1025407639346268542009-02-23T19:28:00.000-06:002009-02-23T19:28:00.000-06:00tbascom,I was much too young to remember, but my f...tbascom,<BR/>I was much too young to remember, but my family told me that one of my church's former pastors, had a argument with the heads of the Anglican church.<BR/><BR/>I won't go into details, but suffice it to say, he told them where they could stuff their ideas.<BR/><BR/>It may have seemed rash, but from the way the church operates, and the way I hear the story, I am extremely inclined to support his decision. <BR/><BR/>Not to mention, my own small neighbourhood church is following the main church more than actually doing much of their own thinking.<BR/><BR/>Plus A LOT of their practices are making me rather uncomfortable.Isaachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18215924467425676052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-72631055556961557342009-02-23T14:49:00.000-06:002009-02-23T14:49:00.000-06:00Well said, all.Isaac: When I was in Seminary we us...Well said, all.<BR/><BR/>Isaac: When I was in Seminary we used to joke that Episcopalians could believe whatever they want, just as long as they do it in good order. (It's not so funny anymore.)<BR/><BR/>Like Debbie, I belong to a congregational tradition. (Congregational traditions insist on the authority and responsibility of the local church to directly obey Jesus, as Head of the Church. Denominational affiliations are non-authoritarian, as a matter of ecclesiology (theology of the church), though both the Southern Baptist and United Church of Christ national HQs have more recently been tending to make pronouncements on behalf of their churches, in contradiction of their ecclesiology. The UCC has been far more egregious in this regard, and far more leftist/apostate, than the So Baptists.)Congregational churches believe God speaks directly to the individual, draws the person into the local community of like-minded believers, and unites like-minded communities through the Holy Spirit into the Church Universal. That's the bottom-up, "democratic" tradition brought to the American shores by the Mayflower Pilgrims; it undergirds our nation's democratic traditions - grounding them in God's Word and Will - and it helps prevent denominational leaders exercising human authority in-between the individual and the Lord, Jesus Christ.<BR/><BR/>Doesn't prevent apostate beliefs. In fact, it makes it easier in some ways for individuals and churches to waunder off the Way. But it also prevents a few misguided leaders from deflecting a whole network of churches.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-57196131327701635862009-02-23T10:10:00.000-06:002009-02-23T10:10:00.000-06:00On the positive side, we Christians of many differ...On the positive side, we Christians of many different denominations have come together to fight this issue of Leftist Heresy. Our differing denominations were once at war over the many doctrinal differences, which still do exist. But, by the power of the Holy Spirit through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, we have come together to fight this, the greatest heresy of our lifetime. Let us celebrate our new found union in Christ and go forward with a renewed joy in our hearts. These sad churches have left us but we remain faithful to the Word and we will persevere.Faultline USAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-7578178561702933132009-02-23T08:44:00.000-06:002009-02-23T08:44:00.000-06:00Been a Lutheran most of my life but with the churc...Been a Lutheran most of my life but with the churches adoption of more liberal ideology I renounced the church several years ago.<BR/>Many of my friends, including an ordained Lutheran minister have followed suit.<BR/><BR/>I am in the long process of converting to the Catholic church. Specifically the Tridentine, pre-Vatican II Catholic church, which does not support liberal ideology.<BR/><BR/>Liberal ideology has infested every major institution in this country including Christian churches. It's a sign of the times we live in. May God have mercy us.Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206096573254386797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-4714251954874102682009-02-22T22:18:00.000-06:002009-02-22T22:18:00.000-06:00When we moved to Tennessee, I was a little leery o...When we moved to Tennessee, I was a little leery of the church I started attending. You can't throw a rock around here without hitting a church. :) I was a member of a WELS church in Wisconsin. <BR/><BR/>I am so unbelievably grateful that I was led to walk through that door. Our pastor tells it like it is, not how some folks would like it to be. I'm now a very proud member of that church, which is, by chance, Southern Baptist. :) He preaches straight from the Bible, never minces words, and if folks don't like it, they are more than welcome to find someone who will preach what 'they want to hear, and not what they need'.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09173642175294245534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-44703606699729812972009-02-22T19:37:00.000-06:002009-02-22T19:37:00.000-06:00I have been a Lutheran since I was 25 years of age...I have been a Lutheran since I was 25 years of age. I will be 68 in May. I must renounce my membership in the ELCA and leave what I feel has become an apostate church. <BR/><BR/>I have been warning my fellow members this would happen but no one wanted to see what was right in front of their faces. I leaned on my family until I have been able to get every member of my family out of the ELCA except my wife and I can't get her out. I do not know what else to do.<BR/><BR/>I have been thinking for some time of joining a Missouri Synod church. The problem is the closest one to me is 50 miles away. In fact I have been sending my tithes to them for years now, ever since it became obvious to me the ELCA was going to do this. Also, I stopped attending services at my ELCA church at the same time. I am "inactive", as they say.<BR/><BR/>I would very much like to cross post this on my site at: www.csadispatch.blogspot.com/ <BR/><BR/>You are right on the money with this commentary.<BR/><BR/>May God bless you and heal both our badly bruised hearts!<BR/><BR/>J. D. LongstreetLongstreethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-85524174834395377552009-02-22T18:29:00.000-06:002009-02-22T18:29:00.000-06:00I personally attend an Anglican church, although I...I personally attend an Anglican church, although I hardly consider myself to be one.<BR/><BR/>While not actively promoting such heresy, their habit is just to avoid talking about it and just preach very idealistic sermons. <BR/><BR/>Plus the church itself never seems to take much of a stand against anything, even after terrorist killed one of my country men and continue to try to do so. <BR/><BR/>Their silence is just as damning as any heresy in my opinion.Isaachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18215924467425676052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-56411222064290172992009-02-22T18:16:00.000-06:002009-02-22T18:16:00.000-06:00Yes I have developed a great admiration for the Ba...Yes I have developed a great admiration for the Baptist faith, especially the Southern Baptists. This is their saving grace!Faultline USAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691318732494110768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960732812801813184.post-57864556135402992772009-02-22T18:11:00.000-06:002009-02-22T18:11:00.000-06:00A lot of churches are watering down their theology...A lot of churches are watering down their theology, trying to fit in with the modern world. Methodists, and I think Lutherans, all have one central governing body. That's one reason that I like the Baptists, at least Southern Baptists.<BR/><BR/>We have no central body that dictates what the individual, local churches believe. The churches themselves decide. We choose our own pastors etc. Of course there are the basic beliefs of the Christian Faith that Baptists believe, but when the Southern Baptist Convention veers off what a local church believes to be true, we are not forced to go along with it.<BR/><BR/>Debbie Hamilton<BR/><A HREF="http://www.righttruth.typepad.com" REL="nofollow">Right Truth</A>Right Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18274108313586611205noreply@blogger.com