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To: utahagen
Are there ANY conservative Lutherans who are still in the ELCA?

There are, and many are somewhere along the line in the process of leaving. The departures are being tracked very accurately by Pr. David Barnhard at http://davidbarnhart.blogspot.com

About 300 congregations and clery have departed for the one-year old North American Lutheran Church www.thenalc.org.

A slightly larger number have departed for the ten year old Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ www.lcmc.net.

I am only aware of one ELCA to LCMS move, a congregation in the NYC suburbs served by a Pastor who had been Seminex/AELC.

5 posted on 02/16/2012 1:05:26 PM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini--nevertheless, Vote Santorum!)
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My brothers ELCA congregation went to the lcmc last year. They did not go LCMS due to old bitterness over seminex. I hope those old wounds can be healed at some point.
Another reason congregations are not going LCMS is the presence of female clergy. I hope the LCMS does not give in on that one. I don’t think they will.


20 posted on 02/16/2012 9:19:13 PM PST by Mom MD (The country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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