ELCA ping.
God didn’t call the Lutheran church to be anything...He didn’ even call for its existance, Martin Luther did...and he was wrong!!Perhaps the declining membership is due to the fact that people are looking at the “protestant” concept to be without merit.....Let’s see, Christ founded a church on His apostles, it is almost 1,600 years old, and Martin Luther decides that he can do a better job explaining Christianity than could the church fathers....duh, that doesn’t seem to me to make any sense at all......does it to you???