A decision to ordain actively gay clergy has caused deep fissures in the nation's largest Lutheran church group, with some traditional Lutherans saying they have been subjected to threats and retaliation as they consider breaking away.
Several disaffected members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) say the decision made at the church's national convention in Minneapolis in August could prompt a major exodus from one of America's biggest Protestant denominations.
"I wouldn't even begin to tell you how many thousands [of calls] I've gotten," said Paull Spring, chairman of Lutheran Coalition for Renewal, or CORE, a national coalition based on traditional values. His group said last month that it cannot remain inside the 4.7-million-member ELCA and will form a new synod....
What did these folk think would happen, when decades ago the denomination rejected the inerrency of scripture. Once scripture goes, all those cherished cultural values will soon follow.
It is good that thousands of Lutherans are leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America because of the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America ordaining homosexuals to the clergy. And it is also good that after leaving the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America that those Lutherans are uniting with a Lutheran Church that is more in line with Luthers teachings.
One would hope that they would at least form a new synod, those who do not want to blatantly reject God's Word. The Truth Behind The Church's Purpose
1 Timothy 3 15 but in case I am delayed, I write so that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. 16 And by common confession great is the mystery of godliness: He who was revealed in the flesh, Was vindicated in the Spirit, Beheld by angels, Proclaimed among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory. 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,---NASB
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