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Your Turn / Question About ELCA Congregation Departures
« on: January 08, 2023, 11:39:32 PM »
In the 2000s, when the sexuality wars in the Mainline were heating up, you were seeing conservative congregations depart for other denominations.
Before ELCA 2009, the PC(USA) had an underreported sexuality controversy in 2006.
Since the late 90s or early 00s, you saw dozens of PC(USA) congregations depart to join the PCA, which itself is a schismatic denomination which left the mainline Southern Presbyterians.
One thing I did notice, however, is that very few, if any, ELCA congregations post-2009 joined the LCMS. They either joined the already-existing LCMC (itself an ex-ELCA denomination) or formed the NALC.
Why is that? Why did the conservative ELCA congregations not follow the Presbyterian example and join an already-existing conservative denomination?
I was always curious about that.
Before ELCA 2009, the PC(USA) had an underreported sexuality controversy in 2006.
Since the late 90s or early 00s, you saw dozens of PC(USA) congregations depart to join the PCA, which itself is a schismatic denomination which left the mainline Southern Presbyterians.
One thing I did notice, however, is that very few, if any, ELCA congregations post-2009 joined the LCMS. They either joined the already-existing LCMC (itself an ex-ELCA denomination) or formed the NALC.
Why is that? Why did the conservative ELCA congregations not follow the Presbyterian example and join an already-existing conservative denomination?
I was always curious about that.