Official leadership positions at least. If I remember correctly, LCMS also has positions for teaching and the like where women can lead. The next generation is important after all!
Also a Deaconess program in the synod, though I admit that would take several years that you might not want to invest.
Mostly I’m just saying that whereas leaving the congregation may be necessary, I recommend making sure to look at all your options before voting with your feet. You may have the chance to change things for the better.
Of course, you also may not, so don’t feel like you have to shackle yourself to a dead congregation either.
I don’t know the entirety of your situation, so I can only really advise in generalities after all!
Yes, I’m not even sure we really should leave.
And I’m not really leaving the Lutheran denomination….I’m just looking for some church that hasn’t handed itself over to Marxist PC nonsense. Many denom /sects can be flushed out never mind a specific congregation.
We have many, many churches here but still, the rarer ones will only have 1, etc. everyone knows there aren’t that many LCMS churches.
I’m thinking more along my dads family, where they were stuck with 1 church in the various rural places they moved to. Basically all the siblings were baptized in a different denom. It wasn’t because they were devoted to that denom, just that they had no choices but were willing to go to any Christian church.
I feel much the same way…all these churches, but so many are completely apostate. Searching for those that would be OK.