But Lutherans preferred to be called Evangelicals.
As they should, it is the purpose of the Church to evangelize. ELCA long since abandoned scriptural evangelism for liberal social pursuit, aren’t Lutheran because they have cast Bible and the Book of Concord aside, have ceased to be a place where God’s Word is preached both Law and Gospel so they should drop the ‘church’, and their America should be spelled with a ‘k’.
Lutheranism was the original evangelical faith