Often you will hear, "Oh, that's just those people in Chicago! We don't give our money to them, and they don't really have anything to say about what we do here."
Wrong on all counts. They'll find out soon enough that these high-living fruits have already picked off the low-hanging fruit.
It’s not that we members of the ELCA do not understand how heretical the ELCA is becoming. There’s only one reason why I am still with the ELCA. I love my home congregation. The people are good. They believe the Bible. We have been assertive about our rejection of the ELCA’s move toward gay clergy. We even withheld our synod dues for several years at one point in protest of the direction that the ELCA was going on this.
My heart breaks. I pray and I will continue to speak the truth in love to those who rule the ELCA and pray for ears to be opened to the word of God, and for them to understand that the grace of God does not exclude the necessity of the repentance for sin.