20 January 2018
To: Editor – dhill@trftimes.com
From: Ron Nordin, Lancaster, MN – ecs.ron@gmail.com Phone – 815.351.1220
Subject: Letter regarding ELCA bishops
With all due respect I would like to respond to the front page article dated January 20 2018. It appears the bishops of ELCA disrespect our President and want to indoctrinate the public to their way of thinking. He does not hide his beliefs as does the ELCA.
First it has been challenged that the President used the language. And even had he done so, was he not referencing the nations, not the people? The same nations that receive millions of our dollars.
These same bishops need to look in the mirror about the ELCA and their teachings. My wife and I left the ELCA in 2011 after being exposed to their seminary teachings. Having worked with several interns we were growing very concerned. Their teachings that the bible was not God’s Inspired Word as well as cursing in their sermons was alarming. Then my wife was invited to participate in a (CREDO) workshop at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkley, CA (PLTS). What an eye opener. Discussions were that:
1. God may or may not be He.
2. The Bible is a collection of fairy tales/folklore.
3. The Holy Spirit is she.
4. The Miracles of Jesus did not happen. The only Miracle was when He was raised from the dead.
5. Jesus was just a man not divine, until risen.
It has been proven that Planned Parenthood, whom the ELCA enthusiastically supports both financially and publically, perform abortions as in the killing of babies. These babies, about 1 million per year, are from OUR country. I have seen video evidence of this practice.
In 1988 my Mother came from a meeting where our church voted to join the ELCA. She prophetically said “We will regret this day”.
I would invite anyone to discuss or ask for a copy of the letter my wife and I sent after the meeting at PLTS.
We as a people need to search our hearts for answers. As this Nation, I believe, was to be a “Shining Light” to the World. The ELCA sadly is putting out these lights one by one.

Ron Nordin
815.351.1220