Lutheran CORE

Change is good. Change can make one grow. Change can even buy a soda pop! Change in the church is inevitable because the church is a group of people coming together to see what God is up to in the world that we live in and a place to gain strength for facing the changes in the world.

Some people will say that the ELCA has left the church catholic by the changes it is making concerning the rostering of publicaly accountable, life long monogomous, same gendered people, but I say hog wash. The Reverend Dr. Gil Waldkoenig from the Lutehran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg recently said "Lutheranism is a reforming movement within the church catholic, a generation of scholars tried to teach us (for one example, Jenson and Gritsch in their book Lutheranism). Now CORE is giving visible witness AGAINST that thesis, by drawing a smaller circle to stand inside and proclaim 'we are true, you are false.'" I agree whole heartedly.

The church must change or it will die. We, as a people of God, must reinterpret how God is acting in the world. We, as a people of God, must always move in the direction of justice because God is a God of justice. God is a God of life and anything that does not foster life is not of God. Therefore, keeping people who are in a publicly accountable, life long monogmous, same gender relationship from fulfilling their calling in the church is not of God. Those scriptures that say homosexual sexual activity is an abomination DO NOT come from God but from people who wanted the nation of Israel to be different from the nations around them.

The ELCA must endeavor to be a reforming church. The ELCA must never draw a circle around itself for the sake of unity. The ELCA can simply say "good bye" to those people who want to consistently tell us the world is flat, and watch them sail off into the sunset of history because their movement will never survive becaue it is not relavent to people living in a post flat world. Good bye CORE, good bye!