As they said on the bus going to the LCA-ALC-AELCA meeting, just as ELCA was being formed, "I know, but it's the process!"
The leaders du jour had to bop the subordinate heads together so they could unify their new corporation. Three Lutheran groups would become one, but more like a paper bag leaking out all the overly ripe vegetable products...onto the floor.
The beloved process found that MBO would squash themselves (there he goes again) into a unity without substance.
The entire Christian Church is based on the Efficacy of the Word through the Means of Grace. When that is ignored and shunned, nothing is left but some kind of business matter.
