ALPB
It was the ELM candidates, clergy "coming out" and synodical bishops not discipling congregations and/or pastors that led to the state of the ELCA. Traditionalists would not have needed to call for a vote had the policy of the ELCA actually been respected and upheld. But you already know that to be true...
As for me, I have "voted to leave." I am no longer a pastor of the ELCA (nor am I a pastor of any other group) since I was recently received into the Catholic Church. God bless those who stay to fight the good fight in the ELCA. I wish good luck to them. But for me--the whole Lutheran "experiment" is doomed to fail. Gladly, the Church goes on.
Blessings to all,
Joe Copeck
