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To: aliquando
I left the ELCA back in 2005. I had read a church newsletter article written by the Minster our church was sponsoring in the Holy Land, castigating the Jews, blaming them for the way that the Palistanians had trashed all of the facilities that Israel had turned over to them.

Then, I sat in church and listened to one of our synod representitives talk about the "wonderful experience" she recently had when they tried to vote for acceptance of homosexuality. I looked at my son, sitting next to me and realized I was a stranger in my own church home.

Instead of staying for Sunday School, we got into the van and drove over to the nearby town that had a LMCS congregation. I had never been there, but I asked Jesus to take us home. I got off the Greenway in Ashburn, took two unlikely and unmarked turns and a half a mile after the second turn, there it was, Our Savior's Way LMCS church. We drove in, were welcomed with open arms, and I have never gone back to an ELCA church since.

13 posted on 05/12/2013 4:51:17 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: Redleg Duke

I wonder how much the LCMS has grown in the last few years? I’m a +1. I’m done with ELCA.


14 posted on 05/12/2013 1:33:19 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.Psalms55:9)
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To: Redleg Duke

I wonder how much the LCMS has grown in the last few years? I’m a +1. I’m done with ELCA.


15 posted on 05/12/2013 3:44:03 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.Psalms55:9)
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To: Redleg Duke

I took the same journey on a different highway a few years earlier when the pastor at the local church claimed that the “true presence” of Christ was more allegorical than literal.


16 posted on 05/13/2013 5:59:12 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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