I was an ELCA Lutheran at one point (grew up Southern Baptist and am now a confirmed Catholic). Part of the reason I left and eventually became Catholic was because the ELCA was becoming progressively more liberal. Not the direction I wanted my spiritual life to go. Additionally, when I went to my Lutheran minister with a marital problem (my wife had just told me she was going to leave me) he suggested I needed a back rub ... That minister eventually became a Bishop in the ELCA (and still is). His wife and mother of his two children left him for a woman. His daughter (a friend of mine and a youth leader at HER church) is a closet lesbian. She even said there was conjecture as to his “orientation” and that that was part of what lead to her parent’s break-up. Given that history and the fact that this man is a leader in the ELCA, is it any wonder the ELCA is moving in a more “homosexual-friendly” direction?
Well, the fact ELCA signed so many fellowship agreements with other very liberal denom’s (PCUSA, UMC, etc) to share pastors and such, helped propel the liberal elements within ELCA forward faster than they probably otherwise would have been able to.
I was confirmed in the ELCA church, attended a PCUSA (PC says it all ) church for a number of years and now hubby and I attend a Bible based non dom church.....we could not be happier...
Too many churches have abandoned Biblical truths and teachings so therefore they and their members have abandoned God.....