Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler says the nation’s largest Lutheran body is “not a church.”
He says the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America only lives up to a quarter of its name, citing the Southwest California Synod’s election of the first openly gay bishop in the denomination.
“It is by this act and by many prior acts distancing itself by light years from the actual faith and conviction of Martin Luther,” Mohler said in a Monday podcast. It has “demonstrated itself to be neither Evangelical nor Lutheran and, as G.K. Chesterton might say, not a church either. That just leaves them in America.”
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Reminds me of my beloved Jr Hi history teacher’s comment on the Holy Roman Empire: “It was not holy, Roman, nor an empire.”