I believe it is essential that we all recognize just how profound a shift in worldview is required to embrace the belief that a biological male can choose to identify as a female, and how a biological female can choose to identify as a male and consequently we must all simply recognize this and accept it. Similarly the embrace of homosexuality, transgenderism, bisexuality and every deviant form of human sexuality that continues to grow and expand, seemingly now, monthly.

These beliefs have taken over the largest so-called "Lutheran" church in the United States and with these false beliefs comes a profound redefinition of everything it is to be a human and naturally requires a redefinition of God Himself, by rejecting His self-revelation as Father, by substituting the very Name of God given by His Son, our Lord, at Holy Baptism and so on.

The deep theological apostasy represented here is something I think we have not come to terms with enough and we must be on our guard against it, warn our members about it and not let them slowly slip into acceptance.

What these seismic shifts in definition of the very nature of what God Himself, and His creation of man as both male and female represent a theological apostasy from Christianity as significant as any in the history of the Church.

We ignore this reality at our great peril.