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Originally Posted by 33girl
Yeah, but there are some trying to get us there. Yoicks.
I'm in a bit of a theological crisis right now so this thread is tres apropos.
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My biggest crisis was during the ordination vote in 2009, I almost woke up an Episcopalian. The more I thought about it though, either side of the decision should really be willing to leave the ELCA if they don't like it. Is there anything
more Lutheran than leaving your church and starting or joining another one because you don not like how things are run?
I've never changed my faith (baby baptism and confirmation) because I'm welcome to the other mainline Protestant congregations, and I like a lot of the freedom we give our members. Women are completely included and are equal to men (unlike in the other two main Lutheran groups). We allow people to make their own choice about creation and evolution, embrace science and God. Abortion is something we don't want to happen, and we'd like to prevent it but we're against making it illegal and aren't okay with being horrible to people who do get one. We're now allowing ordination of same sex partnered people, but individual congregations don't need to be forced to having those people as pastors if they don't want to.
I think from previous musings we're similar in our worship wants. No rock band at the altar, no speaking in tongues (yeah it happens), more of the old church aspects we grew up with in the more ethnic congregations, oh and how I miss the Green Book and really enjoy individual cups and wafers, or at least not having people touch my body and sharing a cup of the blood.
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