People don’t need to go to church to be instructed that it’s ok to do whatever we really want to do. All of us pick up on that philosophy of life early on. If there no message from the spirit in a church then those attending will do so as a social group. With the advent of social media the young don’t need a social group, certainly no one that includes grown-ups and other people not like them. Thus, the mainline confessional churches are dying. Look at the photo a the top of the page - of the only 8 or 9 attending not a one is under 60. But this has been the history of the church. Bad churches die off. But only after a faithful remnant has split off to continue to worship Jesus Christ and follow his word.
I guess they will soon find out how many gays really go to church. Not many, IMHO.
Between Wartburg Seminary, Wartburg College and Luther College, Iowa has been a great place for the apostate ELCA to employ and train the gender-confused, as well as assorted Marxists and Israel-phobic individuals.
Preach Christ crucified and raised from the dead and the pews will fill up.
The left destroys everything. The Catholic Church has similar problems.
When people realize that the morality of the church is the same as the morality of a bar—they tend to go to the bar because the fellowship is better.
Have they said “We don’t believe in zombies.”? Deny the resurrection.