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View submission: Musk and Flynn targeting Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio funding.
Did the Lutheran's ministers not push Trump in their sermons?
Comment by Apostrophe4me at 02/02/2025 at 17:39 UTC
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Nope—not any ELCA churches. They’re more of the “love thy neighbor” and “lord give our political leaders open hearts to take care of the most vulnerable—hear our prayer” style.
Comment by PresidentialBoneSpur at 02/02/2025 at 17:29 UTC
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Grew up Lutheran. My experience was full of super chill, usually very progressive, actually intelligent and relatable people who lived to serve their communities. I assume this could be an outlier experience, but the wide majority of Lutheran people I encountered were good folks.
Comment by CrypticalCryptic at 02/02/2025 at 17:31 UTC
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The Lutheran denomination is pro choice and pro lgbt
Comment by wrenskibaby at 02/02/2025 at 17:52 UTC
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Missouri Synod Lutheran here. My pastor never, ever mentions politics. He believes it has no place in a church. He doesn't discuss politics from the pulpit at all. I always admired him for this
Comment by agoldgold at 02/02/2025 at 18:42 UTC
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Having just gotten back from service: no. Today's sermon was about not giving into the sin of pride to appease those who want your mission to benefit them just because they know you. Witnessing in your own community even when that's not popular, even when people you love want you to change that message. Which was more impactful when combined with today's reading.
1 Corinthians 13
The Gift of Love
1If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Love is an action, a choice, and a demand placed on us by our faith. If we do not spread the message and action of love, in word and deed, there is no point in any of us.
Comment by Bogart09 at 02/02/2025 at 19:25 UTC
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My dads retired but exact opposite in his old church
Comment by Newbosterone at 02/02/2025 at 19:58 UTC
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Do you know there’s a difference between the Lutheran Church and Lutheran Family Services, a nonprofit organization? LFS takes government funding to provide services to refugees and immigrants, including illegal aliens.