Comments on: ENI Story on First Lesbian Lutheran Bishop in Sweden

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:57:05 +0000

@Jeff Samelson Sounds like Korah and company in Numbers 16. "They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD's assembly?" Num 16:3.

By: Elaine Weiss

Elaine Weiss — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:43:06 +0000

This is really a sad state of affairs – she should have been excluded simply because she is a women add lesbian to the mix this is so anti-christian.

By: Stephen Foxx

Stephen Foxx — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:12:14 +0000

It is so heartbreaking that those to whom Romans 1:21 applied used to be the deviant of society, then they became a larger part of mainstream society, then they became the deviant in the churches, then they became a significant part of the main stream of the churches; now they are becoming the leaders of churches. Let us pray earnestly that we can be like those in the opening chapters of Revelation who are “faithful unto death” to whom Christ will “give the crown of life.”

By: Jeff Samelson

Jeff Samelson — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:37:48 +0000

Note how she sees this as being all about *power*. It’s been my observation that that’s often what it comes down to when people whom God has not called and will not call into his ministry insist that no one should deny them what they want — that those who are denying them are doing it just to protect their own power, and that if they get what they want, they will have power (and use it more wisely and lovingly, of course).

By: lewis

lewis — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:24:47 +0000

i think one of the saddest things is at the end:
“In 2005, leaders of the Lutheran World Federation removed Kenyan Bishop Walter E. Obare Omwanza as an advisor to its main governing body, the LWF Council, after he consecrated a bishop from a breakaway Lutheran grouping in Sweden, opposed to women priests and same-sex marriage.”
it just goes to show that the church is always open to attack by worldly influence and that we must, by the power of the holy spirit, yield only to godly change and resist changing to reflect the world. orthodoxy still exists! praise god!