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| ELCA's leaders cannot figure why they have lost so many members since 1987. |
https://religionnews.com/2017/10/16/amid-decline-one-lutheran-church-strives-to-live-up-to-its-namesakes-spirit/
The ELCA saw its membership decline to 3.5 million members in 2016, down from 5.2 million in 1988 when the denomination was formed as a merger of three other smaller Lutheran groups. Today, 40 percent of its churches have between 50 and 100 worshippers each Sunday.
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| The hot air merchants of the ALPB forum discuss every reason for decline - except their apostasy from the Word of God. "When the Son of Man returns, will He find faith?" Not much - but lots of UOJ. |
https://alpb.org/Forum/index.php?topic=7003.0
Quote from: Pastor Ken Kimball on Yesterday at 07:56:09 PM
It's 420 congregations in the NALC today. The 140,000 figure looks right, as do the figures for the LCMC. The saddest thing to note is that the ELCA's membership loss at least triples the total of NALC and LCMC. Where did those million folks go? Not sure LCMS or any other Lutheran body got a significant boost.
The ELCA in 2006 had 4,774,203 baptized members.
In 2016 it had 3,563,842 baptized members.
A differences of 1,210,361.
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If 490,000 of them transferred to LCMC or NALC congregations, that leaves about 720,000 unaccounted for.
The LCMS in 2006 had 2,417,999 baptized members.
In 2016 it had 2,017,834 baptized members.
They lost over 400,000 people.
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| Bishop of Canada and the Inuit Nation - Susan Johnson. Tim Glende has properly warned her against "Inuitu Fidei," the faith of the Eskimo. |
I imagine that many of them went to the same places os the 720,000 missing ELCA folks. I suspect the three most common answers are:
1. They dropped out of church.
2. They joined the active mega-church in town.
3. Oldsters died and were not replaced by new members.
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| The LCMS-WELS leaders know it and love it. |
