The North American Lutheran Church has been established.
When the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted in August of 2009 to establish church ceremonies blessing homosexual marriage and to ordain non-celibate gays and lesbians, many Lutherans (including my wife and I) were upset. We had in effect been handed a unilateral divorce decree by the leadership of the ELCA. It is impossible to be faithful to the clear teachings of the Gospel against sexual immorality and remain in the ELCA.
But it was not just the ELCA's tragic decision of last August that prompted the formation of a new denomination. The NALC is a response to a wide variety of non-Christian practices and beliefs that are now the primary focus of the ELCA's leadership. As the ELCA drifted away from the God of Abraham in favor of a new god of secular political activism, there was a cry by Lutherans within the ELCA for a church that remained faithful. The NALC is an effort to be that church.
Please pray for the leadership of the NALC in their enormously difficult task. Please continue to pray for the repentance of the leadership of the ELCA, that they may come to reject their new false god of politics and rediscover the Gospel.
Disclaimer: my wife and I are presently attending a church that is associated with the Southern Baptists (how we ended up there is a long story). So in a sense we no longer have a dog in this fight. But any efforts by Christians to re-establish the supremacy of Scriptures in the face of falsehood needs our prayers and support.
