Posted on 03/05/2025 4:02:23 PM PST by Morgana
Bowing before Molech
And they should remove "Missouri" too. Just call it "Church Synod".
Aka satan.
They’re pretending to be Christians, but we all know what Jesus said about wolves in sheeps clothing.
I am an LCMS member. This survey has nothing in common with my congregation. Nothing. We have members under 30, we are growing, we follow Christ, our pastors are firm about discussing sin, the consequences of sin and the only way forward, Christ.. My experience simply does not relate in any way to this survey. A “merger” with ELCA would be like the US merging with Venezuela. Unthinkable. I won’t do it. Ever.
The Missouri Synod was definitely the most Conservative (and I think the largest) Lutheran Church in the USA until the 1970s.
Missouri Synod membership began contracting around that time period, and it has slowly, but progressively, moved to the political Left ever since.
Rename it the Lex-Lutheran church.
There will be no merger.
LC-MS hasn’t changed its views to put bodies in the seats, and it won’t.
Yup. I agree. If we would merge with any other denomination it would be WELS.
Apparently it does not translate into voting or Harrison would never have won the election.
Not sure who PEW asked.
I am also a member of a vibrant LCMS church and it in no way comes close to the results of this survey.
Anything PEW does is skewed left for a purpose. Grain of sand on this one....
I am also a member of a vibrant LCMS church and it in no way comes close to the results of this survey.
Have you met the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod? Way more conservative in everything.
Too good to fix the Catholic Church’s human failings with prayer and adamant boisterousness....comes to this....too good to fix man’s failings still.
We call it “Lutheran Church Misery Synod”.
I just got done giving a Bible study on the Belgic Confession. Luther would be enraged to see what has happened to the Lutheran Church.
I’m not sure who they asked either, because they said it was a survey of 35,000 with 1200 laity. That would mean these are primarily results from about 33,000 LCMS pastors.
No way. Absolutely, freaking no way.
I don’t know if the LCMS even has 33,000 pastors.
Something is very, very screwy with this report.
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