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Promotion of a heresy doesn’t begin right away. Denominations discover that innovations cause bitter division. People vote with their wallets and with their feet. Hundreds of congregations begin to leave the denomination and these are usually the healthiest and largest congregations of the denomination. Budgetary issues assail the denomination. For example, the ELCA’s budget when it was established in the early 1980’s was 70 million dollars. By 2010 the general funds had dropped to 45 million. . .

2 posted on 03/13/2015 9:03:30 AM PDT by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)

” ...the ELCA’s budget when it was established in the early 1980’s was 70 million dollars. By 2010 the general funds had dropped to 45 million. . .”

Was this in inflation-adjusted dollars, or nominal dollars?

3 posted on 03/13/2015 9:09:55 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)