In reply to Shruti Kulkarni.

An an ex-LCMS member currently in WELS, I think I can say that despite it's faults the LCMS is pretty introspective and most agree on the fact that it's an imperfect church body. I feel bad for ELCA because some of the constituent parts that made up the 1988 merger were once !argely confessional. ELCA's position on homosexuality was probably the most heretical view taken by a Lutheran church body in 500 years.and frankly intellectually dishonest by anyone with any theological training at all. Evidently a lot of ELCA members agreed since you lost 600 congregations over it.