The obstacles are the doctrinal differences. If Lutherans would only give up justification by faith and see the Pope as God’s head on earth, and start praying to the saints and start believing that Mary remained a virgin after the virgin birth of Jesus and take that troublemaker Luther out of their name, everything would be hunky dory.
Oh, we've named ourselves after that great singer Luther Vandross.
Never happening. We will not exchange truth for a lie