Paul Hinlicky of Roanoke College has written an article that is well worth reading about the continued fallout from the August Churchwide Assembly. In addition to noting the serious negative effects on the ELCA of the sexuality decisions, Dr. Hinlicky builds on David Yeago's assertion that we are now in a state of impaired communion, and argues that the ELCA has now moved toward a congregationalist polity, defining the locus of the Church at the congregational level.
I fear that ours is an example of how seriously impaired ecclesiology can have a devastating impact on a church body. So much for the theologically idiotic idea of "bound conscience."
Dr. Hinlicky's article can be found at Lutheran Forum. the link is to the right.
Blessings,
Pastor Garry
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