[Honorary Serb]

My synod is as blue as can be, and as I found out recently, the "lavender" aspect of the synod is much too close to home for confort.

That is one reason I am thnking Orthodox, since decent Lutheran alternatives are just not there. "All church membership is local".

[lightman]

Even the red Synods are changing hue. But I am impressed by the very conservative young seminarians coming along. Each generation rebels against the previous generation so there is hope that as the 60's folks move into retirement a more orthodox leadership will emerge. Just Newtonian physics applied to ecclesioloy.

[lightman]

There is a terrible irony in the timing of the Council's action on the Monday of the Third Week of Easter. The daily Epistle for yesterday was from 1 John 4:

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world."

And the opening Collect in the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau's "For All The Saints" daily prayer book was:

"God our Father,
your light of truth guides us to the way of Christ.
May all who follow him reject what is contrary to the Gospel.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever."

[redgolum]

Kind of figured you would be heading to the SO church. Don't blame you. Just don't forget to pray for those in the ELCA who are trying to figure out what to do now.

I just hope the LCMS doesn't decide to jump off the cliff also.