ELCA Seminary Enrollment Parallels NFL Attendance - Similar Reasons? What We Have Here Is a Failure To Matriculate!

 This professor of confessional Lutheranism (right) was
fast-tracked into the parish and then made bishop overnight.
The 98% do not sign up for enormous loans to be trained as pastors by the 2%, but the 2% will take the scholarship money and jobs, thank you.

Here are some insights from an ELCA pastor.

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ELCA Seminaries Enrollment

« on: Yesterday at 12:08:10 PM »

In the Lutheran Forum (Winter 2017 Edition) there is a interesting chart on the enrollment at
the 8 ELCA Seminaries for the 2016-2017 Academic year.

There was a total enrollment of 663 ELCA students studying for their Master of Divinity degree.
This compares to 1274  ELCA students studying for the M.Div degree ten years ago. This amounts
to a decrease of 611 seminarians in one decade.

The 2016-2017 leader was Lutheran Seminary, St. Paul with 238 ELCA students.  In second place
was the Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago with 91 ELCA students and Wartburg Seminary of
Dubuque, Iowa was third with 88 ELCA students.  https://alpb.org/Forum/index.php?topic=6891.0

Got problems? Email WELS fire-fighter Scott Barefoot.
He and his People of Grace Ministry will keep it confidential.
No, really. They all will. God appointed them, and they
are full of grace, born forgiven, guilt-free saints.

 Teaching the ELCA dogma of universal forgiveness and
salvation is not helping the LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC sic.

What We Have Here Is a Failure To Matriculate - ELCA

Now the enrollment is   663 - 2/3rds loss in 28 years.
Ten years ago it was  1,274
28 years go - FTE      1,989

Full Time Equivalent is used because so many seminary students are getting a large share of their credits online, aka distributed education. Many ELCA seminaries have excitedly decided to merge with a college and pretend to be real schools - the Bethany model, without the frozen food money.

 These four apostates will not go away.
They are experts in hanging onto the salary and benefits.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It also rocks absolutely.

His Heinous Mark Jeske went to the mountain
and brought back the Ten Commandments of Fuller Seminary. As they go down the drain together, all say, "ELCA is worse." WELS says, "Missouri is losing members twice as fast." The ELS says, "At least we are not WELS."