. . .The movement has drawn such great interest that the conference, originally expecting 400 attendees, cut off registration at 1,400 people from more than 40 states.
There was such a groundswell that organizers moved the meetings from Christ the Savior Lutheran Church in Fishers to the much larger Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Geist.
"This meeting is basically the first step in a process that we hope will lead to a reconfiguration of North American Lutheranism," said Chavez, a member of Lutheran CORE's steering committee. . . .
Chavez disputes the fairness of the process that selected the voting membership of the churchwide assembly, which he said was "stacked in favor" of those supporting gay clergy.
Lutheran CORE reformers have drawn up a proposed constitution that could separate them from the denomination.
"The bottom line is that the ELCA churchwide organization thinks it can place itself in authority over God's word rather than the classical Lutheran position where we are simply human beings and we submit to God's word," Chavez said.
Who is going to get the property? What happened in the Anglican Church? Didn’t the apostate clergy end up with the church property and the traditional Anglicans had to find other churches?
What does the law say about this when there is a disagreement in a church? Which side gets to keep the church? Which side gets to keep the church’s name?