While not Lutheran myself, I have many close friends who are lifelong ELCA members. It’s been appalling watching the denomination destroy itself over the past few decades. It’s also been disheartening watching ELCA members either tie themselves into theological knots defending the denomination or seethe in frustration as they watch their beloved church plummet deeper and deeper into heresy.
Yep. Many people have trouble leaving a denomination which has turned heretical because of their social and emotional ties.
The ELCA left me long ago…thank you, Jesus, for opening my eyes! Sadly, I tried to show my mother the truth about it, but she passed away at 90, still being a proud member. I think her problem was time- she was a lifelong member. It can be hard to leave and start over in a new church, especially for her in her later years. I’m so happy my husband and our kids broke out of that circus!
This is happening with ALL “mainstream” Christian denominations in America.
We’ve seen an elderly friend suffer the indignity of her Episcopal Church fall apart for all this apostasy.
I myself was in ELCA shortly after it was created. A little later I discovered it wasn’t for me.
Catholics are suffering the apostasy of priests pushing homo and illegal aliens.
Mainstream America is sick, and it’s affected the churches and they follow suit.
From your comment:
tie themselves into theological knots defending the denomination or seethe in frustration as they watch their beloved church plummet deeper and deeper into heresy.
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I am saddened by things like this; because...
These fine people are more loyal to the man-made doctrine of an entity that calls itself a church than they are loyal to the Lord’s doctrine found in scripture.
In my case, it was because I didn’t know scripture pretty much at all.
And there are so many!