It is telling that a group wanting to bring back the LCMS of their grandfathers is looking at the splinter in the eye of the ELCA when they should be looking at log in their own eyes and how LCMS continues to shrink year after year.
"Splinter"? The ELCA votes that homosexual sex is no longer a sin, and it ordains unrepentant, practicing homosexuals and lesbians. The ELCA preaches universalism: its presiding bishop writes in an open letter that Muslims, Christians, and Jews all worship one God. The ELCA pays in its self-funded healthcare plan for abortions for any reason whatsoever up to 20 weeks. The ELCA’s new hymnal gives options to avoid “Father, Son and Holy Spirit” in the liturgy and changes Psalms, prayers and hymns to avoid “Father” and masculine pronouns for God and Jesus Christ.
The LCMS may have lost members, but it has not relegated the Bible to the trash heap as the ELCA has done.