There is quite a difference, apparently, among the LCMS churches. People have told me that the denomination has 2 seminaries, and that one is conservative and the other is not. I’ll have to ask, because I can’t remember which one is which.
As for denominations that are true to the Bible, there are still some. The Orthodox Presbyterian Church is one, as is the United Reformed Church. The PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) is having its struggles. Like the LCMS, each individual church can be quite different from another.
There are also some conservative Baptist congregations, but they would require that you submit to a second baptism to be a member. As a Reformed Presbyterian, that is something that I personally am not willing to do.
God bless. Hope you find a good church.
The mainline Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Episcopalian churches are hopeless. You would be better off joining a country club. At least at a country club, nobody would be preaching heresy.
Also, any church that has a female pastor, is not a true church.
That last I would agree. At least, it strongly indicates something is wrong with the church.
Funny thing is the first time I joined a Lutheran church with my parents was at a church that belongs to ELCA. They had just created that. We liked it much at first, and the assistant pastor was a woman. (Knew that was odd then, but just accepted it.). Actually she was great. Gradually, the main male pastor became less “holy” and we were less impressed with him. Rather depressed, in fact.
Then the church went wholesale silly starting with the theater-in-the-round project. Since then I haven’t been back to ELCA.
I wasn’t quite accurate. Well, that church had gone roundhouse theater by the time I came back from my brief time out of state. In CT I luckily found a Lutheran church down the street, which I loved and was still ELCA. Had interim pastor I really liked. Nothing there offended me. Then I came back home in MD to the roundhouse.
Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana is considered conservative. Concordia Seminary, Clayton, Missouri is steadily reforming some abberrations having to do with cultural issues effecting practice. The Church constantly battles intrusions of reason that have us thinking backwards as to how God deals with us.