I am a member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod - the WELS. It is this kind of nonsense in the ELCA that prevents any association between our synod and theirs even though we both have Lutheran in our name. Members of the WELS and ELCA would not be allowed to receive communion at a service of the other synod.
"I am a member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod - the WELS. It is this kind of nonsense in the ELCA that prevents any association between our synod and theirs even though we both have Lutheran in our name. Members of the WELS and ELCA would not be allowed to receive communion at a service of the other synod."
The same goes for my church, LCMS, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
don't forget us LCMS folks. I cringe to call myself Lutheran because most people equate Lutherans with the ELCA. I always have to explain that we are not the mainstream liberal Lutherans.