American Culture and The Organized Church and Web Pages To Check Out Tom Lyberg on 21 Aug 2009 10:16 am
ELCA Tornado Judgment?
As I sit listening to the ELCA Churchwide Assembly discuss and vote on issues of homosexuality, I also received a facebook note about the tornado that the the assembly hall earlier in the week now being proclaimed as the wrath of God by local megachurch pastor John Piper. Author Rachel Held Evans has a marvelous response, not in defense of any “gay agenda” but on the deadly hypocrisy in the organized church across the spectrum of sides. We point to the “other” as the greater sinner and ignore our own sins using a mask of purity and faithfulness.
Check out Rachel’s blog Evolving in Monkeytown.
on 21 Aug 2009 at 7:16 pm # Tom Lyberg
Of course a Lutheran would have to get in on the wrath of God connection.
Check this out. http://wordalone.org/nr/God-will-not-be-mocked.shtml