I don’t know if my nerves will take another week of this gutwrenching synod... I just hope and pray that in the end we will all be pleasantly surprised by the God of surprises and that doctrine will not be overturned either directly, or by change of discipline, or by allowing local “pastoral” decisionmaking.
You have a gathering of company with you, in Heaven and on earth. All of us are shaken and broken hearted. What a dreadful test, as if in mourning, isn’t it? This is not good fruit.
God is with us. He is our Shepherd, and the 23rd Psalm has given me much comfort.