[marbren]

The question should be not how Lutherans are prideful (in the sinful sense) of their doctrine, rather how you arrived at a sinful pride over it.

You may well be right! What if my local church group is dysfunctional? I may have been projecting a bit much to all LCMS. Now what if the LCMS did not recognize and assumed, through failure of assumption, that my church was not dysfunctional?

[xone]

Now what if the LCMS did not recognize and assumed, through failure of assumption, that my church was not dysfunctional?

And how would they know, anyone talk to the circuit counselor, the district president about problems your church may have had? Our God is omniscient, the synod isn't. Like any organization, if there is no data, there can be no action. As adults, we assume no problems if no one comes forward.