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So heartbreaking !!! My LCMS church is hanging tough for the most part. However, our conservative pastor is hounded constantly by the “let’s-be-modern-and-GROW-the-church” crowd.

We have the great misfortune of having a wealthy man (and his co-elites) who has let it be known that he basically represents Kieschnick as he moved here from St. Louis and still maintains a seat on one of the boards. He trots back there periodically.

I could go on for hours or days. It is so upsetting and the tension in our congregation is severe. We continue to pray.

Their ploy is to go heavily after visitors and unchurched folks who lack a scriptural foundation. They are ripe for the picking and don’t get that “We are in the world but not of it.” That is one of my biggest disgusts. Many of these people are unwittingly duped.

Pray for the survival of our dear LCMS. Jesus can do anything.

I'll pray for your church too. It is highly upsetting, isn't it? Our LCMS church is in the same state, there is a great division right now between the traditional service members and the "modern" contemporary service members. It's terribly sad, and there are so many bad feelings just under the surface (and you don't have to do more than scratch that surface to find out).

I have become deeply concerned about the direction not just our church is going but the entire LCMS. It pains me greatly, words don't do it justice. I am torn as to whether to stay in the LCMS and find another church, or try and find another denomination altogether.

Kieschnick and Co. are the beginning of the end for the LCMS. There will be the removal of the commitment to Biblical inerrancy, syncretism, women pastors, women deacons, women elders, and same-sex blessing or "union" ceremonies in the next five to ten years, mark my words. I'll bet they even join the National Council of Churches.