[lightman]

LutheranCORE is very much needed to support those ever-diminishing faithful orthodox Lutherans who remain within the ELCA.

Their reasons for remaining vary. Some are fighting mightily through trying to introduce synod legislation; some by having their congregations restrict or redirect giving to their Synod and thus to “churchwide”.

Some, sadly, have essentially sold out in order to retain a position. “I have only a couple of years until retirement” says one Pastor. “I just started a new Call” says another. “I don’t know if I could get a Call in another Lutheran body” says another. Those sound too much like the excuses offered up by those who spurned the invitation to the Great Feast.

And I grieve for such, for they are friends.

[bcsco]

Their reasons for remaining vary. Some are fighting mightily through trying to introduce synod legislation; some by having their congregations restrict or redirect giving to their Synod and thus to “churchwide”.

With the entrenched views of the liberal leaders of that synod, I'd say this is a losing battle. It's obvious church leaders are on a political mission instead of adhering to the Biblical message God has given us. Legislation, restriction of funds, whatever internal motivations they contrive, will fall on deaf ears. Because the synod has become deaf to scripture.

And that's why I wrote that the only bridge is one of bringing them home to the one true Faith. The ELCA is a lost cause. When President Harrison of the LCMS has called the ELCA to be in heresy (see post#12 in the above link), that's a statement worthy of note - and action.

[Redleg Duke]

I am in a bit of a quandry, here in southern New Hampshire. There are two LCMS churches within driving distance. I belonged to one for a couple of years, but the politics drove me out. The other one just doesn't seem like home. I was raised ALC and went into the ELCA with misgivings which came to a head in 2005 when I listened to a liberal member talking about the beauty of incuding the homosexual lifestyle and reading the church-sponsored missioner to the Holy Land trashing Israel. At that point, the scales fell from my eyes and I realized that I was in a strange place, not my church home.

I wish there was a NALC congregation nearby. The nearest one appears to be in New York state. The local ELCA church is under the absolute control of the liberals.