If enough people leave the ELCA, do you think that Bishop Hanson will regret supporting ordaining gays? Will he admit that he wanted to disobey the teachings of the Bible? I think that he’ll regret his decision, if the church revenue decreases. He doesn’t care what the Bible says.
As I understand it, both the higher-ups in Higgins Road and many leading liberal ELCA “bishops” and pastors see the Great ELCA Exodus as leaving a “purer” “church”. ?????
And they of course work to discount the size of the exodus—”only a small number have left”. How many exiting members and how many exiting congregations will it take before they say “Ouch!”.
I believe that the exodus will accelerate, until even the Higgins Road statisticians will have to say that instead of 4 million ELCA members and 10,000 congregations, they have a dramatically lower number of both.
In my case, they counted my leaving my ELCA congregation to become Orthodox as a “statistical adjustment”. That is despite the fact that abut a dozen members of my former parish attended my Chrismation.