I am a retired ELCA pastor and wonder why you left the ELCA. What was the reason of conscience?
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Basically, I took my ordination oath seriously as regards conforming my teaching to the Scripture and the Confessions, and could not justify remaining in a denomination which didn't. Remaining in a church body which tolerated or even promoted antinomianism, univeralism, open communion (including the actual denial of the Real Presence), and a denial or at best a refusal to insist upon just about any Lutheran distinctive you could name and a general lack of any functional foul lines at all was simply something I couldn't square with that ordination oath.
To put it bluntly, too many people were being damned by the preaching of my collegues.
Being a Lutheran by conviction, I couldn't handle remaining a part of a denomination which ceased to be Lutheran in any meaningful sense years ago.
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To put it bluntly, too many people were being damned by the preaching of my collegues.
Being a Lutheran by conviction, I couldn't handle remaining a part of a denomination which ceased to be Lutheran in any meaningful sense years ago.