Apostasy rampant and increasing in the so-called “Christian church”

The last of the last days

The Great Falling Away, the Great Lie of Satan who now stands in more pulpits.

The itching ears turned to fables that lead them to the second death and a most unpleasant eternity…

Bishop-elect Megan Rohrer(Photo: Twitter/Megan Rohrer)

There are TWO ARTICLES combined in this singular posting for anyone interested. Keep scrolling and you’ll find both articles.

We live in such times, the last of the last days, in which there are people that with a straight face profess to be a lesbian pastor, a homosexual pastor, a bisexual pastor, a transgender pastor or minister or preacher. And they imagine they are Christians. And those in the congregations where they practice their immoralities and sin and are permitted to preach go along with this strong delusion, this grand lie of Satan’s, as it is he giving voice to the practicing lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, or the so-called queer person who has somehow been “ordained” by a congregation to preach. Satan is their voice as it is Satan within that congregation and NOT the Holy Spirit of God nor anyone in those congregations holding fast to and abiding in the word of God!

This increases by the week. Is accepted as if it’s a good thing as if this is approved of in the sight of God and aligns with the word of God!

And the words “Evangelical” and “Christian” have lost their true meaning in these times. Therefore, how much time can truly remain when such words as these have become so polluted, corrupted, perverted to cause such confusion, apostasy, and the spreading of lies and darkness as truth and light?

Ken Pullen

Wednesday, May 12th, 2021

ACP — A Crooked Path Made Straight By the Word of God (these and those believing and practicing their sin and abominations ought to try learning and understanding the exceedingly clear word of God for a change…)

U.S. Church elects its first openly transgender bishop

12 May 2021

By Jennifer Lee

Reprinted from Christian Today (in the U.K.)

A San Francisco pastor has been elected as the first openly transgender bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

The Rev Megan Rohrer is currently pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, a small progressive congregation in San Francisco.

Rohrer, who goes by the pronouns of ‘he’ and ‘they’, will head up the Sierra Pacific Synod of the ELCA.

The installation will take place on September 11, at St Matthew Lutheran Church in Walnut Creek, California.

“The first council of Nicaea’s first action was to try to limit the leadership roles of transgender pastors and bishops. I’m grateful the Lutherans of the @sps_elca are beginning to dismantle this and some of the […] other hurdles BIPOC and lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer pastor’s encounter,” Rohrer tweeted.

The San Francisco Police Department, where Rohrer is a chaplain, said: “All of us are proud of our colleague, Bishop-elect Megan Rohrer, who made history as the first openly transgender person elevated to the role of Bishop by a major Christian denomination in the U.S. Congratulations, Rev. @mmrohrer! Keep doing great things!”

Jeff Walton, of the Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD), took issue with Rohrer’s reference to the Council of Nicea.

“Claims of suppressing transgender clergy are elusive to history. Rohrer did not cite sources. But presumably Rohrer is referencing Canon 1 from the council declaring eunuchs can be priests unless they castrate themselves,” Walton wrote.

He added that while Rohrer may be glad the ELCA is “beginning to dismantle” the injustice at the Council of Nicaea, “no doubt much more dismantling must be done before true justice and knowledge can prevail against the external authority of revelation proposed by historic Christianity. Or so the Gnostics, yesterday and today, always proclaim.”

The ELCA is the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S. but has lost hundreds of congregations over its liberal direction. According to the IRD, membership has declined by over a million since the late 2000s when it changed the rules to allow non-celibate gay priests.

Rohrer was the first transgender pastor to be ordained in the ELCA in 2006.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America becomes first mainline denomination in U.S. to elect transgender bishop

May 11, 2021

By Michael Gryboski

Reprinted from The Christian Post

The Rev. Megan Rohrer, the first openly transgender bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

A regional body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has elected the first openly transgender bishop in the liberal mainline Protestant denomination’s history.

The Rev. Megan Rohrer, who uses the pronouns of “they” and “them” rather than gender-specific terms, was elected Saturday to head the California-based ELCA Sierra Pacific Synod.

Rohrer won on the fifth ballot during the online synod assembly, receiving 209 votes and narrowly defeating the Rev. Jeff R. Johnson of Berkeley, California, who received 207 votes.

According to a statement released Monday, Rohrer will be installed as synod bishop on Sept. 11 at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Walnut Creek, California.

“The first council of Nicaea’s first action was to try to limit the leadership roles of trans pastors and bishops. I’m grateful the Lutherans of the @sps_elca are beginning to dismantle this and some of the […] other hurdles BIPOC and lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer pastor’s encounter,” tweeted Rohrer on Sunday.

Rohrer presently serves as pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in San Francisco and also serves as Community Chaplain Coordinator for the San Francisco Police Department.

“All of us are proud of our colleague, Bishop-elect Megan Rohrer, who made history as the first openly transgender person elevated to the role of Bishop by a major Christian denomination in the U.S.,” tweeted the San Francisco Police Department. “Congratulations, Rev. @mmrohrer! Keep doing great things!”

Others, among them the theologically conservative blog Exposing the ELCA, denounced the election of Rohrer as “a complete slap in the face to God.”

“The ELCA is thumbing its nose at God, His Word and Truth and effectively showing that they are part of the uber left and its rejection of Christianity,” stated the blog. “How can God-fearing, Bible-believing individuals remain in the ELCA? ​How can churches remain?”

Jeff Walton of the theologically conservative think tank Institute on Religion & Democracy based in Washington, D.C., critiqued the Council of Nicea reference Rohrer made in response to being elected.

“Claims of suppressing transgender clergy are elusive to history. Rohrer did not cite sources. But presumably Rohrer is referencing Canon 1 from the council declaring eunuchs can be priests unless they castrate themselves,” wrote Walton.

“Bishop Rohrer says she’s glad her liberal Mainline Protestant denomination is ‘beginning to dismantle’ the injustice at the Council of Nicaea. No doubt much more dismantling must be done before true justice and knowledge can prevail against the external authority of revelation proposed by historic Christianity. Or so the Gnostics, yesterday and today, always proclaim.”

Although the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S., the ELCA has had many congregations leave due to its increasingly progressive stances on theology and politics.

In 2009, for example, when the denomination voted to allow openly homosexual individuals to be ordained, hundreds of congregations left the ELCA in protest.

In 2013, the Rev. R. Guy Erwin became the first openly homosexual bishop in the mainline denomination when he was elected to lead the ELCA Southwest California Synod.

At the time, the ELCA estimated that it had around 4 million members. According to the announcement of Rorher’s recent election, the ELCA has about 3.3 million members.