The Big Five - ELCA-WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC (sic) - moved step by step into apostasy, which means they once were loyal to the Christian Faith and finally rejected it. The question is not whether this happened but how this was so massive in effect.
Here is a little factoid. ELCA began officially in 1987 with 5.4 million members. Wickedpedia has the current number at 2.9 million, almost half the size and going down rapidly.
Where did the 2.5 million - or, pick a number - go? The Big Four have lost members at the same time, so the promise of one consultant, "Expect a big chunk from ELCA members running to other Lutheran congregations" has failed.
That means all the Church Growth gimmicks have failed so badly - they could not even keep up their own precious numbers. Here are the reasons:
- Their pastors do not teach faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
- The managers (they are not leaders) despise the KJV and promote atrocious, devious Bibles, three from the gay National Council of Churches - RSV, ESV, NRSV.
- District managers (they are not leaders) and pastors hate Luther and his Biblical doctrine.
- Pastors do not visit their own members, at home or in the hospital.
- The synods worship themselves, not the Holy Trinity.
- The managers (they are not leaders) spend lavishly on themselves and gimmick specialists.
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