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I agree and have already heard that from our pastor as an excuse to do nothing. That is why I am proposing two services, one traditional, possibly even more liturgical than our current "blended" service. I don't ever see us going full rock style music, just good contemporary christian music...

We actually do quite a bit in/for our community. Our building is used for AA meetings, rock, beading, jewlery, quilting and craft groups, Jazzercise and karate folks meet here weekly. We host a bi-monthly group meeting for adults with special needs. We participate in Walk for Warmth and other...

Tampasteve, We are snowbirds and spend 3 months a year in Cortez (9 years now) and am there right now. Missing being at our home church when all this is going on, but it is worth it to get the good weather. Fortunately we stream our services, so I am able to worship with them remotely. We...

Sorry, when I say daughter congregation, that is to say our church helped them form in the 1960's when we were growing so fast. So in a word we are their "mother" church. Ultimately if worse comes to worse, we could merge or simply become absorbed by them or we could become another campus...

Actually our daughter ELCA congregation 6 miles away meets my needs, 400 attendance, stable to growing with a modern worship service but it is not my home church of 65 years. I want to help get our congregation back on track. I am hoping it can be done. It will take a new pastor (ours is...

Why not join the LCMS? I have been a Lutheran all my life, yet I must ask the LCMS pastor if I understand their tenants regarding communion well enough to take communion. No thanks, that is between God and me. I have a good friend who is a retired ELCA pastor who feels the same way. And women...

Laying in bed this morning and thinking about the whole issue, I believe to some degree it is about conservative vs liberal. Churches that espouse liberal views of the bible tend to have clergy that are liberal in their thinking regard social policies, and to me that somewhat defines a liberal...

Thanks for your response. I am familiar with the LCMS as my godson and granddaughter attended school there and I frequently attended their services and my good friends who were ELCA at our church are now staunch LCMS members. Our common best friend was a PK, later organist for 42 years at our...

I have been a member of my local ELCA church for over 65 years. We have seen many smaller ELCA congregations in the area close and I see our congregation headed that way too. I am trying to start a round table discussion with our members to recognize the issue and to discuss how to proceed...