Sorry, dearie, I forgot to reply!
Thanks!....Yes, a July 3rd anniversary almost always insures we'll have fireworks .....in some form, LOL!
Holding, I was brought up Baptist, but married Lutheran (like you)....
...belonged to a Lutheran church for 12 years.....
...The biggest argument we had there was whether to keep using the red hymnals or go to the new green hymnals...LOL....
...truly, the regular folks (mostly Scandanavian heritage)... could get pretty heated at the thought of new fangled hymnals.
We sang the old hymns......no praise choruses at this church.
Our pastor was a dear, solid, conventional, conservative, Wheaton grad, German Lutheran.
....We left the church when we realized the ELCA would take over the autonomy of our dear little church and direct us to liberal theology......and our pastor retired to Arizona to minister to the indians.
God directed us to the Presybyterian PCA......where we've been very happy for years.