Maybe some Lutheran folks can help me out here. I know this was posted by a Catholic apologist (but what the heck-I think we’re still in America-at least for now), but why wouldn’t a Lutheran pastor—or even lay person think of joining up with the other Synods —who I believe are more ethically conservative? Or is it that ELCA is more liturgical—resembling the Catholic liturgy than are the Missouri Synod or smaller Lutheran synods?
How do you go from Lutheran to Roman Catholic over abortion when there are Lutheran synods that are very conservative and pro-life?
It’s because, I think, the article is propaganda?
Guess you’d probably have to direct-message the author to find out the reasons. Most, I’m thinking, of the more than 600,000 members and more than 1,000 congregations that have fled the ELCA since its Alterations of Desolation (S. M. Hutchens’ coinage) have joined more conservative and biblical Lutheran denominations like the LCMS, LCMC, NALC, and AFLC.
Alot ECLA ers won’t join the LCMS because of our stand on women(no pastors) and communion doctrine of closed communion.
The author was not a pastor, she read about a pastor that left the ELCA for NALC and it reminded her about her journey. Or perhaps I missed your point.... lol