“ELCA deserves the attack. And I am Lutheran (not ELCA). We have been trying for decades to get them (their leadership) to drop their unorthodox views and come back to orthodoxy. Letters, meetings, discussions. It has gone nowhere.
“The gentle touch has not worked for twenty years. They have become more adamant and stubborn and hard-hearted. They are losing congregations to other denominations.”
It’s wise to leave those false churches. As Christ said:
“And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+6:11&version=NKJV
That verse shows that Jesus was not the meek and mild, passive hippy type that the left, Hollyweird and popular media like to extol.
Christ did not leave the Jewish community, He expanded the message of deliverance to all men. To leave is to take the cancer with you instead of curing it — case in point, with the PCUSA’s total apostasy we still see the EPC going ahead with pastoresses and there have been votes to allow deaconesses in the PCA. The cancer must be rooted out — STAY and root it out at the moment you see it (as the PCA has done) — to leave is wrong.