Traditional Lutherans Mull Alternative Path

The Christian Post ^ | 25 September 2009 | Lillian Kwon Christian Post Reporter

[underthestreetlite]

More than 1,200 Lutherans disaffected by the recent vote favoring openly gay clergy have assembled in Indianapolis on Friday to begin creating an alternative fellowship for conservative Lutherans.

"We intend to initiate a process that we hope will lead to a reconfiguration of North American Lutheranism," said Paull Spring, chair of Lutheran CORE and the retired bishop of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod. "The convocation is for all who care for the future shape of orthodox Lutheranism."

Related Link: ELCA Opens Ordination to Noncelibate Homosexuals

[Liberty1970]

If they were remotely orthodox they would have left ELCA a long, long time ago. It’s not like the Missouri Synod (moderates) and Wisconsin Synod (more conservative) don’t exist already with a national scope.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

Looks like another denomination took the poison pill. I do agree that “conservatives in the ELCA” must be a microscopic bunch.

[rigelkentaurus]

“It’s not like the Missouri Synod (moderates) and Wisconsin Synod (more conservative) don’t exist already with a national scope.”

How are Missouri Synod Lutherans moderates? I am a Missouri Synod Lutheran and we are very Bible/Christ focused, traditional, faithful Christians.

[ditto h]

I too am a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I am, in no way , moderate.

[Kimmers]

I was thinking the same thing, why don't the leave the ELCA? I grew up in the ELCA and now attend a non-denom. bible based church.....

I would have to disagree with your view on the Missouri Synod......I find them to bible based and very conservative......

[libertymaker]

I am Missouri Synod and it is very conservative. The ELCA and MS were once very close. Those unhappy ELCA congregations should split and realign with MS.

[squirt]

DITTO

[boomop1]

Ditto

[boomop1]

ELCA are not Christian's, they are fake phony frauds.

[NoGrayZone]

I had to leave my Lutheran religion several years ago due to their lack of leadership upholding and preaching God’s word.

I have been homeless since =( . It’s now just me and my Bible.

[NoGrayZone]

How on earth did you find a bible based church? I went around “interviewing’ pastors, but I didn’t like any of the answers I received.

[freemama]

If they come on over, the leaders of their movement will lose any power they might gain from making their own synod. They will also have to back pedal on other doctrinal issues that they might not be ready to resind. (ie. woman pastors).

These congregations will not join the LCMS. They will form their own organization that will be just a little to the right of the current ELCA.

[niteowl77]

My mother was brought up in a trad (pre-ELCA), small-town Lutheran church, and because our family moved, she ended up in an ELCA church that became a PC social club incrementally. Eventually, she was told by an interim pastor (a toady sent from the regional office to make sure the place got properly "Hansonized") to either leave the congregation or stop objecting to homosexual clergy.

If he thought that the tiny septuagenarian was going to fold, he was wrong, as mater said goodbye to her church "home" of 30+ years. She was apprehensive over going to the MS church in town, but they were very supportive, and she now wishes she had made the move decades ago.

[lucias_clay]

Has anyone read Martin Luthers “The Estate of Marriage” 1522 which expounded the points he made in the Pagan Servitude on Marriage ?

Its particularly fascinating.

[GulfWar1Vet]

No, what the Lutherans need to do is to come back to the Word of God and follow Him!