Lutheran Church Decides the Best Way to Retain Membership is to Stop Preaching the Gospel - pjmedia.com
Excerpt from this article:
"The Evangelical Luther Church of American was founded in 1988 with 5,288,230 members. By 2016, less than twenty years later, the ELCA had shrunk to 3,563,842 members. With that kind of 'growth,' the ELCA has less than forty years before the final member throws her hands up and quits. Christ the King Lutheran Church in Cary, N.C., believes that they've found the answer to stopping the mass exodus of tithing members. They've stopped preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and have embraced progressive theology and social justice."
Why Persecution is Coming on Churches in America
Note: This is a great sermon - from start to finish - and I wholeheartedly recommended it. But Pastor's Swanson's comments on the ELCA 14 minutes into this sermon are why I am including this link in this blog post.
Recommended "Gospel" sermons:
The Universal Gospel Call, by Rev. Cornelis (Neil) Pronk [Text: Romans 9]
The God of the Bible Kills People [Video], by Rolfe Barnard (1904-1969) [Text: Proverbs 29:1]
Salvation Plain and Simple, by Rev. Ian Brown [Text:
I Saw the Dead, by Dr. David P. Murray [Text:
When Government Tries to Be God, by Dr. David P. Murray, by Dr. David P. Murray [Text: Acts 4:19 & 20]
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) [Text:
Compel Them to Come In, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)[Text:
Excerpt from this article:
"The Evangelical Luther Church of American was founded in 1988 with 5,288,230 members. By 2016, less than twenty years later, the ELCA had shrunk to 3,563,842 members. With that kind of 'growth,' the ELCA has less than forty years before the final member throws her hands up and quits. Christ the King Lutheran Church in Cary, N.C., believes that they've found the answer to stopping the mass exodus of tithing members. They've stopped preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and have embraced progressive theology and social justice."
Why Persecution is Coming on Churches in America
Note: This is a great sermon - from start to finish - and I wholeheartedly recommended it. But Pastor's Swanson's comments on the ELCA 14 minutes into this sermon are why I am including this link in this blog post.
Recommended "Gospel" sermons:
The Universal Gospel Call, by Rev. Cornelis (Neil) Pronk [Text: Romans 9]
The God of the Bible Kills People [Video], by Rolfe Barnard (1904-1969) [Text: Proverbs 29:1]
Salvation Plain and Simple, by Rev. Ian Brown [Text:
I Saw the Dead, by Dr. David P. Murray [Text:
When Government Tries to Be God, by Dr. David P. Murray, by Dr. David P. Murray [Text: Acts 4:19 & 20]
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) [Text:
Compel Them to Come In, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)[Text:
