1 posted on
11/15/2010 7:26:59 AM PST by
rhema
To: lightman; SmithL
The congregations listed below represent a net loss of baptized members for the ELCA of at least 221,069 since August 2009. Add to this number the membership of approximately 40 churches missing from our list, the tens of thousands who left to start new congregations, and the multiplied thousands who have left the ELCA on their own, and the numbers are staggering.
2 posted on
11/15/2010 7:27:56 AM PST by
rhema
("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
To: rhema
Out of curiousity, which denomination are they leaving to join?
Wisconsin or Missouri Synods?
The ELCA will find that walking the same road that the Episcopalians have in embracing the gay movement will not help them survive as an organization.
3 posted on
11/15/2010 8:16:34 AM PST by
Yet_Again
To: rhema
The homo-usurpers will minimize these figures as but a small portion of their “Church”, but it will soom be impossible to avoid and spin the building exodus that is progressing. The ELCA is but a maggot-filled corpse of a once viable body of Christ.
4 posted on
11/15/2010 8:16:49 AM PST by
fwdude
(Anita Bryant was right.)
To: aberaussie; Aeronaut; aliquando; AlternateViewpoint; AnalogReigns; Archie Bunker on steroids; ...
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
7 posted on
11/15/2010 10:50:02 AM PST by
lightman
(Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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