Attendance Plummets at ELCA National Youth Gathering, Which is AWESOME!

Nearly 16,000 youth and adult leaders from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are set to descend on New Orleans for their major youth gathering this July, which brings together “high school age Lutherans from across the country and overseas for faith formation, worship, fellowship, and service.”

It sounds like many people until you realize that this is half of the 31,000 youth that participated in the last event. This steep loss in attendance warms the cockles of our God-fearing hearts, as the fewer teens exposed to the devilish deeds of a damned denomination, the better.

After all, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) is a simmering cauldron of blasphemy and mephistophelean angst, to the point that sitting through an actual church service at one of their pagan temples is a foretaste of the hell that awaits them if they don’t repent. Some of the denomination’s greatest hits include:

ELCA Publishes Book For Teens Saying Porn Can Be ‘silly fun’ and ‘safe way to explore your sexuality’
Woke Church Newsletter Invites Congregants To Help Pay for Abortions and Abortion Pills
Pastrix Says Jesus Called Syrophoenician Woman a ‘B*****’ + “Jesus Screwed Up, She Redeems Him”
Lutheran Pastor Promotes Hookups, Polyamory, and Premarital Sex
Queer ELCA Pastrix Ordained With Drag Queen Nuns While Jennifer Knapp Serenades

Notably, at the last event, all the teens were told to support transgenderism by one of the speakers, an 11 year-old-boy who believed he was a girl, while heretical Lutheran pastrix Nadia Bolz-Weber led the teens in a kind of mock baptismal vow, saying “I renounce the lie that queerness is anything other than beauty.”

Don’t expect things to be any better. As we have previously reported:

At the upcoming event, teens are told to introduce themselves in this way, “Hi, my name is_____ , and I use the pronouns _________.” 

A big theme of the Youth Gathering will be to teach teens to become “disruptive to injustice.” Teens are told to discuss “what injustices you have experienced” and are told, “We are created to be disruptive, to work for justice for all our siblings”. Youth are taught “interrupting phrases” such as “We don’t say things like that here” to “help them disrupt an unjust situation”.

Lastly, teens will be taught not to think of sin as “darkness” because this is racist, woth a pre-gathering informational booklet explaining “One particularly harmful part of theology is associating sin with all things dark and black…(this creates) an implicit bias against things that are black…harmful intertwining of white supremacy and God’s love…”. Teens are asked “How does claiming the holiness of darkness reframe who God is for you?”

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