[Belteshazzar]

The author ends the article thus: "Many of my friends have left the ELCA, unwilling to support its ill-informed leftism. I hate to give up on the institution, but one of these days we likely will follow them."

Why do you hate to give up on it? I don't get it. Giving up on the hopelessly corrupt, radically progressive ELCA and giving up on the Lutheran Church are entirely different things. The former is no longer Lutheran, no longer Christian. It is political ideology hiding behind the skirts of the Christian church (though not very well). The latter still lives on, believing, teaching, and confessing the same truth she has for last 500 years.

[vpintheak]

Follow Jesus. Denominations be damned.

[allendale]

Who in their right mind would be a member of a religious organization that elects some post menapausal Marxist old lady as its leader?

[Karliner]

The church of Sardis or Laodecia?

[olivia3boys]

We left our church of 27 years because it suddenly and abruptly went woke during the pandemic (wouldn’t even reopen) and then during the summer of 2020 when it was overly sympathetic to Antifa and BLM and the riots, and then especially after Jan 6—their comments about the Christians there on the Mall were the final straw.

We’ve never returned after Jan 6, and found and joined a new church.

Simple as that.

[One4Life]

I am a faithful Lutheran as well - and go to a conservative Biblical Lutheran Church. You are right, the ELCA is neither Lutheran nor Christian... he should give up already as there is nothing there but falsehood. True Lutheran Christian Churches exist-he should go join one.

[shoff]

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

[zeestephen]

Re: Why is the ELCA failing?

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) is another good reason.

LIRS is the #1 federally funded immigration NGO in the USA.

All those non-English speaking strangers being settled in your community under cloak of darkness?

Thank you, LIRS!

[DeplorablePaul]

Female bishops finished off the Episcopal church too. Concern about sin and salvation was replaced by the social justice gospel.

[Boomer]

I’ll probably be vilified for this but as someone in my 60’s I’ve made an observation that most women over 60 are bitter old bitties. Most are no fun or even interesting to be around.

I would like to think most Freeper ladies over 60 are the exception.

[KevinB]

Blow up your t.v. throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try and find Jesus on your own
–John Prine – Spanish Pipedream

[Truthsearcher]

Because he’s just like Lot’s wife.

[rwa265]

The author needs to find an LCMS church. Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

[EastTexasTraveler]

The ELCA is not a Christian church. Leave it and find a real Christian church.