For Immediate Release
August 26, 2009
Concordia Theological Seminary Responds to Actions at ELCA Convention
FORT WAYNE, IN (CTS)‹As Christians in an ever-changing world it is
imperative that we be ready with a response when those changes are contrary
to God¹s word. The Rev. Dr. Dean O. Wenthe, President, Concordia
Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN, stresses that we must also make that
response with clarity and charity. A video of Dr. Wenthe¹s response to
actions at the recent convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America (ELCA) may be found at the seminary¹s website, www.ctsfw.edu
<http://www.ctsfw.
³Concordia Theological Seminary, with the Christian church throughout
history, confesses the sanctity of marriage as a union between a man and a
woman‹God¹s gift of marriage at creation is a beautiful and abiding blessing
upon all of humanity.
Similarly, we believe the living and healing voice of Jesus through His
prophets and apostles‹Sacred Scripture‹when He calls us to fidelity in
marriage and warns about the harmful and destructive impact upon human
beings when adultery, promiscuity, or homosexuality are practiced. In
departing from two thousand years of Christian teaching and practice as well
as challenging the majority of present day Christians, the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has exhibited sectarian behavior that
saddens a large spectrum of the Christian community.
We pray that the Lord will strengthen those who remain faithful to His
healing Word and recall those who have so tragically abandoned that Word and
its healing and absolving Truth.
Please also consult President Kieschnick¹s address to the ELCA Churchwide
Assembly as posted on the LCMS Website at www.lcms.org
<http://www.lcms.
(Dean O. Wenthe, President, Concordia Theological Seminary, August 25, 2009)
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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A theologian friend of mine (one of the editors at First Things) argued to me some years back that the controversy about sex and the church did not begin with the issue of ordaining practicing homosexuals, and did not begin with the issue of ordaining women to the pastorate. It began when the churches blinked on divorce (both among the laity as well as among the clergy).
The argument begins the same: Would you deny a person opportunity X (ordination, communion, etc.) because he is divorced?
Once the church blinks on that, then (to mix my metaphors), the door logically opens to analogous arguments.
I always thought it a plausible argument.
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