In reply to Josh.

At the 2001 LCMS Convention, delegates approved [706 to 343] Resolution 3-21A (Proceedings, p. 142), which resolved, "That the 2001 synodical convention affirm the late President Alvin L. Barry’s judgment that 'we cannot consider them [the ELCA] to be an orthodox Lutheran church body'.”

In its 2012 "Response" to the ELCA's 2009 decision to recognize "homosexual marriage," the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations stated (p. 21): "The ELCA has now taken this step, embodying apostasy from the faith once delivered to the saints."

Thus the ELCA organization has been recognized as neither Lutheran nor Christian. The XXXA is a tool of Satan.