3 million baptized and confirmed but I imagine not in the pew as adults. We left soon after the merger and subsequent “studies/votes” on homosexual issues/abortion, etc. But when ELCA helped fund the World Council of Churches sponsored “Re-Imagining Jesus” workshops where they used milk and honey to represent the fluids from a woman instead of bread and wine for communion, a feminist theologian declared there is no need for a bloody Jesus, and other heresies, we were gone. Local church was afraid of keeping our donations local so we left. So glad we did. I grieve for that church and the members left.
Myself included. I am done with them after this.