To paraphrase Reagan’s comment about the Democratic Party, I did not leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), it left me. This article is about an ELCA campus minister’s prayer at the Virginia Tech convocation. The article includes the entire prayer and you have read it to believe it. It is a politically correct, I don’t want to offend anyone, and so I will not mention Jesus, prayer. I have since joined the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod which has pastors who are not afraid to preach the Gospel.
But, Mr. King
decided to do something apparently more important in his mind. He
decided to be politically correct and not offend the members of his
interfaith community by offering hollow words of humanistic philosophy
lacking any real substance, and by appealing to various ?religious
streams? and by validating the search ?for a way forward,? he insulted
those of us who actually believe Christianity is true and other
religions false.In so doing, he denied his faith. He offered those mourning no hope for the present nor any hope for the future. He left the hearers dead in their sins.
A minister ashamed of the Gospel should not have been on that podium.
