[BRL]

I attend this church and am happy it left. The vote was not even close

[lurk]

The theological/political liberals who have infiltrated the old denominations don’t care that millions have left. Nearly empty buildings with a scatter of graying attendees is okay with them. They’re not into winning souls.

Stinks to be them when they stand in front of Jesus in the end.

[rhema]

Most members of the 5,800-member Upper Arlington Lutheran Church, which has three campuses, were troubled by what they viewed as the liberal drift of the ELCA, the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S.

Upper Arlington has a budget of more than $5 million. Until 2009, according to ELCA records, it was giving about $320,000 to "mission support" [the ELCA, presumably] .

[FatherofFive]

It takes a very strange reading of the words of Scripture to think homosexuality is OK.

Leviticus 18:22 - "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable."

Leviticus 20:13 - "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."

Romans 1:26-27 - "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."

[lightman]

Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!

* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.

Glory to the King of kings!

[lightman]

Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!

* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.

Glory to the King of kings!

[Dengar01]

Where is the list of the largest ELCA churches? This would really interest me.

[SmithL]

5,800 members?

Nevertheless, the ELCA will blow this one off, too. After all, there are still thousands of congregations that haven’t left.