Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Roy will hold a forum on Thursday to talk about the possibility of joining a different Lutheran congregation, the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ. The paper reports the church in Roy did not receive the two-thirds vote needed to secede from the ELCA.SO? They can't get the 2/3 vote to leave the ELCA, but it only takes a majority to join LCMC. How will the ELCA respond, by expelling them?
Sadly, this was probably their best shot at getting the necessary 2/3rds. A lot of church members will probably now vote with their feet and disassociate from this church and its ties to the ELCA. I'm guessing next time, if there is one, that the makeup of the voters will contain a higher concentration of ELCA-supporters since most of the ELCA-opponents will have left.