[previous FR post] . . . Glesne, citing statistics from the “ELCA Yearbook,” said: “Between 1988, when the ELCA membership stood at 5,250,000 and 2000, the ELCA lost 125,000 members. Between 2000 and 2008, the ELCA lost 492,000 members—a nearly fourfold increase in decline in one third less the time.” Glesne added, “When the numbers are tabulated for 2009 and 2010, the loss could well be three quarters of a million [for the century thus far].”
Sundberg agrees, saying, “Mark Hanson has presided over the largest loss of any Lutheran denomination in American church history. There is no prospect that the numbers will turn around; none whatsoever.”
Hanson's 11-month reference was to the next ELCA Churchwide Assembly, to be held in August 2011 in Orlando, Fla.
The theme of that convention will be "Last one to leave the ELCA, please turn out the lights."
He must be taking tips from the knothead Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal church.
These retrobates are like maggots in a corpse; after they devour the soft rotting tissues, leaving a bare skeleton, they will move on to infest and destroy another victim.
Converts fit for hell has had no better description.