Submitted by: M Mulukin
12 May 2021
The Rev. Megan Rohrer, who was elected
bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America May 8, 2021,
Becomes the first transgender person to serve as bishop in the denomination or in any of the U.S.”Christian” congregations.
The Reverend Megan Rohrer was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Sierra Pacific synod on Saturday (May 8), becoming the first transgender person to serve as bishop in the denomination or in any of the U.S.’ major Christian faiths.
Rohrer, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco and community chaplain coordinator for the San Francisco Police Department, was the first transgender person to be ordained in the ELCA in 2006 and the first to serve as a pastor when called to Grace Lutheran in 2014.
Well known for advocating for LGBTQ rights in street activism, preaching and writing, Rohrer, 41, who uses the pronouns they and them, is also recognized for their work with the homeless.
They have also attained minor celebrity status stemming from appearances on the television series “Queer Eye” and in profiles in Time magazine and Cosmopolitan, where they recounted their struggles as a young LGBTQ Christian and as a person coming to terms physically and spiritually with their gender.
“It’s an honour to be called to serve the Sierra Pacific Synod,” Rohrer said to Religion News Service in a written statement. “During this time when some imagine trans people at their worst, Lutherans have once again declared that transgender people are beautiful children of God. Thank you to everyone who has been praying for me and my family as I accept this call.”
Raised in South Dakota, Rohrer has recounted being expelled from the youth group at the church they attended in Sioux Falls when they came out as a lesbian and told a California public radio station that in college at the Lutheran Augustana University,
“The people who were in my religion classes with me would sing hymns when I walked by, to try to get rid of my gay demons. And I would just sing harmony. I didn’t know what to do.”
‘When men and women [and transgenderbishops] choose not to believe in God and what He says, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”?
Pope gives speech at ‘Vax Live’ concert, calls for ‘internationalism of vaccines’.
12 May 2021
‘Another variant [of the virus] is when we put the laws of the market or intellectual property above the laws of love and the health of humanity,” the Pope said.
Pope Francis appeared on the giant screen of the “Vax Live” concert aired online last Saturday, giving a five-minute message in Spanish to plead for an “internationalism of vaccines” together with a “new solidarity” in order to heal our “Common Home.” There was not a single mention about the moral problems associated with vaccines that were developed or tested by the use of aborted foetal cell lines.
The “Vax Live” concert was filmed on May 2 before a masked, but vast audience at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and then staged and extended for worldwide broadcasting in a propaganda effort not only for vaccination, but for “social justice” and “equity,” as well as “saving the planet,” making clear the ideological connection between these themes.
He added, by way of conclusion: “May God, physician and saviour of all, comfort the suffering, and receive into His kingdom those who have already departed. And I also ask God, for us, pilgrims on earth, to grant us the gift of a new fraternity, a universal solidarity, that we may recognize the good and the beauty He has sown in each one of us, to strengthen the bonds of unity, of common projects, of shared hopes.”
This is how Pope Francis ended up as a special guest performer at a concert that featured Selena Gomez, a self-proclaimed abortion advocate, as its host, and gave a big part to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and other WOKE celebrities from the glossy magazines, such as Jennifer Lopez who joined a sexually explicit halftime show run by Pepsi for the 2020 Super Bowl. And if he didn’t know about that, his staff should certainly have warned him.
Speaking of which.
Fauci to Vatican health conference: Priests are key to convincing religious people to take coronavirus shots.
‘You’ve got to match the messenger to the audience,’ the 80-year-old government bureaucrat said.
VATICAN CITY, May 11, 2021 The face of America’s COVID-19 response believes that clergy are key to convincing religious people who are reluctant to take an experimental coronavirus vaccine.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious (NIAD) diseases, was interviewed by CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a journalist specializing in medicine for a Vatican-sponsored health conference published online last week.
Asked by Gupta what he would say to “vaccine hesitant” people, Fauci suggested that he was not always the most effective persuader.
“You've got to connect them with people they trust,” said Fauci, whose NIAD division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave a large grant to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct medical research by grafting scalps from aborted babies onto rodents.
“The thing that we're finding out that it depends who you have, who is the audience and who is the messenger,” Fauci told the leftist journalist.
“You've got to match the messenger with the audience. And I think if you do that, you're going to overcome a lot of the hesitancy. When you go into the trenches and you have someone who's a deeply religious person who will listen to their clergy, that's different than me with a suit, going into an area, telling people to do something.”
So now, an intelligent person who is not prepared to be injected with a concoction, not a vaccine, that is not yet correctly tested and approved is ä “Vaccine Hesitant”? Is that what the human race has come to?
Disingenuous Evangelicals.[so=called?]
By Jim Fletcher 12 May 2021
It’s an interesting thing that “critics” of wayward evangelical leaders are often lambasted for being divisive and “nitpicking.” In fact, I wish more problematic leaders were brought to light.
Otherwise, how do people in the pews really know what’s going on? I mean, if the Church Growth Movement structure is tailored to advance the marketing techniques and theological malpractice that it often does, it stands to reason that congregants only hear the carefully crafted message the leadership wants them to hear.
This is how a teacher like Beth Moore takes root and grows into a formidable hedge against accountability.
For example, in the Southern Baptist Convention, both Moore and Rick Warren [pictured above warmly greeting that Man of Sin] were basically implanted into the denomination, then developed their “Purpose-Driven” wares. The way it works is, LifeWay Resources, the publishing arm of the SBC, in effect told each of the 45,000 churches what their curriculum would be for the coming year.
In this way, whole congregations were slowly boiled in a pot of ecumenical stew. Remember, the people perish for lack of knowledge. Notice that the time came when pastors no longer preached against abortion or homosexuality, and other controversial subjects.
In such an environment, it becomes necessary for celebrity leadership to use disingenuous methods, in order to advance a particular agenda.
Last year, Beth Moore—[pictured above teaching] who doesn’t like the Apostle Paul’s admonitions that women shouldn’t preach—suggested that Paul’s words in Scripture are not as authoritative as those of Jesus! This is absurd, if one believes all Scripture is God-breathed. There’s no other way around it.
Moore recently “left” the SBC, allegedly because she can’t in good conscience remain in such a patriarchal atmosphere. She has also influenced other teachers. She will also continue to get as many speaking engagements (and book sales) in SBC churches as she wants.
On May 1, Jory Micah tweeted: “I remember Christians freaking out when I said Jesus’ words are more important than Paul’s. I still don’t understand why that’s not simply common sense.”
Again, the words in our Bible are God-breathed. For example, 2 Kings is no less authoritative than the book of Matthew. But by making this speculation, Moore and Micah seek to peel-off Paul from other biblical teachers. In this way, they can then make the case that forbidding women to preach in a church was simply the product of a woman-hating old curmudgeon (Paul).
I hope you see that teachers like Moore and Micah play with words. They manipulate language in order to bring out an emotional response from an audience. More and more people now accept what they say as authoritative, rather than what Paul recorded!
On her website, Micah makes this statement: “Hi, I’m Jory, and I’m so happy you’re here! “This site is all about breaking the glass steeple”.
“My top mission is to help women shake off the chains of limitation and the shackles of oppression that the Christian Church has wrapped around them in the name of incorrect biblical interpretation and stale religion. And I hope you’ll join me!”
You clearly see her agenda. Like Moore, she is personable and perky. We now live in a generation of churchgoers that rely on experiential rather than scriptural. What is happening in this particular instance is that Paul is marginalized, all because of his words about the role of preachers.
This view that Paul’s declarations are less important than others is dangerous. It is a slippery slope to then questioning other parts of Scripture.
It is disingenuous.
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