The ELCA is NOT a Christian organization.
Jesus Seminarians like Crossan and Borg are lionized in ELCA leadership circles, albeit often with weaselly evasions along the lines of: "While we don't endorse everything Crossan and Borg say, there is still much we can learn from them." Yeah, sure. If the ELCA had been around in the fourth century, it would have been saying, "While we don't endorse everything Arius says, there is still much we can learn from him."
Where the ELCA and the Jesus Seminar most resemble each other is in both groups' avidity to sit in judgment on the Bible and alter God's Word to suit their sin-spurred whimsies. The Jesus Seminarians capriciously voted that Jesus really said only 18 percent of the words attributed to Him in the New Testament. The ELCA capriciously voted -- after years of "study" commission "findings" that chipped away at the foundation -- that the Bible really doesn't mean what it plainly says about the sinfulness of homosexual sex.
The Jesus Seminar and the ELCA have another similarity: both enfeebled groups are fading rapidly into well-deserved marginalization. An official report by the ELCA revealed that the denomination suffered a net loss of 370 congregations in 2011, along with a loss of 213,000 members.
ELCA losses 2009-2011:
more than 500,000 members
more than 750 congregations