Have you found a LCMS? WE left the ELCA for the LCMS.
I want to stay with Missouri Synod Lutheran in which I was raised. I just need to find one in my area that fits. The last one was Wisconsin Synod and it wasn’t as ‘by the book’ as I prefer. I go to hear the word, not glad hand everyone and spend a lot of time fund raising and padding the church coffers. I’m not naive; I know part of it is doing good works; it just shouldn’t get in the way of saving my soul, you know? ;)
When I joined, the church was 100% debt-free. By the time I left a few years later, they were $600K in debt for church improvements and building a school and a daycare. It was becoming a circus, IMHO, and the leadership was questionable from the top down.