Homosexuals Permitted Into Lutheran Clergy

MINNEAPOLIS - Even though the Rev. Mark Chavez believes the leaders of his church made a decision in direct contradiction of the Bible by lifting a ban on sexually active, monogamous gays and lesbians as clergy, he said he's staying with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

"I'm not leaving," Chavez said Friday night, promising an effort to keep the church moving even further toward what he sees as an embrace of behavior condemned by Scripture.

Chavez, of Landisville, Pa., is director of Lutheran CORE, a conservative group within the ELCA that fought the homosexual clergy policy. The group will hold a convention in Indianapolis in September to review its next steps, but Chavez said he thinks some ELCA clergy, congregations and individual members will walk away from the nation's largest Lutheran denomination.

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Rev. Mark Chavez is right. This will only further hurt the already big split in the Lutheran and Episcopal Orthodox Churches/mainline denominations by allowing homosexuals into the clergy of the ministry.

Scripture is clear on this issue:

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."

That makes it absolutely clear with certainty.

God working through the apostle Paul, a minister and messenger for Jesus Christ said that for those who reject God's authority and the warnings set forth in His righteous Word that He would turn them over to a reprobate mind. Three times it is written: He gave them up.

Romans 1:24-28 "Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hears to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with mena nd receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done."

This is what happens you see, God puts before us a test to see whether or not we will accept or reject His plan for our life, and when we do not choose to follow His plan for our life, but instead, do things our own way, we have effectually failed the test, God's test and therefore, He rejects us and turns away His loving restraint that He places upon our hearts.

2 Peter also give us some incite into what will be the fate of such wicked desires and practices.

2 Peter 2:4-10 "For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under the punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority."

Just a glimpse, but a vivid glimpse at that.

God bless!

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When Will The Left Ever Understand...?

What is it about the Left in this country...they are so intent on denying simple, yet so horrible tragic facts that took the lives of thousands of good christian Iraqi people. I hear it so often, we've waged an "illegal" war ... "illegal"? When God's people take orders to drive out an Evil people, from an oppressed land, you take orders.

Barack Obama said today, "There was no Al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush invaded Iraq." Barack Obama is completely and utterly out of his mind....HEY BARACK! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR 8 YEARS? HEY BARACK, *WAVES* DOWN HERE...COME BACK TO EARTH!!!

Sheeesh! They live in such a fantasy land where everything is good and "no one can do any wrong". How STUPID!!

If the Left could only understand the suffering that Saddam Hussein caused to those people of Iraq; many generations of zero freedom … only oppression. The violence that Hussein created was carried out a wide scale basis, and would have continued had somebody not stepped in.

If they could just go an see the piles of twisted, mangled, and burned bodies that had been tortured beyond recognition and took their last dying breath in sheer agony. Just imagine being treated the way Al Qeada treated their people, being blind folded and then being struck repeatedly in the head over and over again, not being able to see where the blows were coming from…? Can you just imagine, then, being burned alive in your, own, living, flesh and blood under that same blindfold? You and your loved ones? No one living in this country can’t, because we live in a land that is blessed beyond all measure, because of one simple, and yet, so-greatly-known fact that there were men of upstanding character and values, men of God, blessed with the honesty, decency, and integrity, to honor Him first and foremost in their everyday lives; willing to sacrifice their very lives to protect the only last great vestige of hope in the world, this rock of Liberty, this stronghold of a free and prosperous society, we call the Great Republic, and Oh how I Thank God for every last breath of my being to be able to proclaim it. No one can ever erase that fact. Only the people as one body, seperated from God’s love through their own ignorance could do so.

So, listen up, friends … God says it’s not ours for the keeping, unless I return Him one small favor, and you know what that is? That I only share it with others, that I should not withhold it in selfish pride, but that I would spread this beacon of Liberty to all the world.

And so, would it have been right to look at my brothers and sisters of Iraq in suffering, allowing this one man of mass and evil cruelty, bent on world domination through his own sick and twisted dreams to plunder God’s people, looking past their suffering? Fortunately, no friends, it was His sincere desire that we show the world that we truly care, and that we will not back down in cowardly selfishness and allow this man to laugh in the face of the entire world of good Christian people and mercilessly slaughter His people.

We can Thank ALmighty God that He sent George W. Bush when He did, friends, and don't let Barack Obama or anyone try to convince you otherwise, for they're not thinking straight!

The Left seems to have a nack for double standard thinking these days (against fighting terrorism, and for slaughter of millions of American children) not fully understanding the consequences to the lives of the teenage/young adult mothers and their families.

In their false thinking they have created one if not the worst Holocausts in human history, only second to God’s Great wrath at the flood, only it was God who took that life away at the time of the flood...He gave it, so it is His to take away! This country seems intent on continuing the slaughter of innocent childrens' blood...Well, God is allowing it to happen, but only for so long, and unless
we heed the calling that has been trumpeted throughout the last 40 years, since its beginnings, in an earnest plea to stop the slaughter of His innocent unborn children of the womb, America will be brought down. When God calls for His people to rise to battle, you will know it, you can be sure.

America seems to be on a steady drift away from God, I can only hope they will turn back to Him, and seek to do His perfect Will.
If not? Then she will be laid to waste, as hundreds of other Nations before it were.

In closing ... Don't forget our brave men and women in uniform who Sacrifice so much for us to have the freedom that we get to enjoy every day. Say a prayer for them whenever you can.

God bless!

–Jeremiah–

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