{"id":534,"date":"2010-01-25T12:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=534"},"modified":"2019-01-14T07:07:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T14:07:38","slug":"eatons-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Eaton&#8217;s Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELCA Bishop <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/from-ne-ohio-december-newsletter-1209-bishop-elizabeth-eatons-article\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Eaton<\/a> (NE Ohio) frets over the deficit in her synod. She asks: Are laity redirecting their giving out of \u201cprincipled or punitive\u201d reasons? And further:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do we do? Compete with the mega-churches? Jettison the Lord\u2019s Prayer and the Creed to be more accessible? Preach a \u2018health and wealth\u2019 gospel that promises people their \u2018best life now\u2019? Rescind every action of every churchwide assembly since 1988?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ELCA leaders refuse to look at the elephant in the room: The problem is not \u201cthe people.\u201d The problem is that ELCA leaders have sold their Reformation heritage for a mess of pottage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/from-ne-ohio-december-newsletter-1209-bishop-elizabeth-eatons-article\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Read or download a pdf version here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/elephant.pdf\">elephant<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/elephant.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELCA Bishop Elizabeth Eaton (NE Ohio) frets over the deficit in her synod. She asks: Are laity redirecting their giving out of \u201cprincipled or punitive\u201d reasons? And further: \u201cWhat do we do? Compete with the mega-churches? Jettison the Lord\u2019s Prayer and the Creed to be more accessible? Preach a \u2018health and wealth\u2019 gospel that promises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}