Comments on: Setting Aside Good Order in the ELCA? http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2009/11/setting-aside-good-order-in-the-elca/ on theology, Bible, and church Sat, 30 Jun 2012 04:17:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Jim Smith http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/2009/11/setting-aside-good-order-in-the-elca/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:22:38 +0000 http://www.restenergy.net/oddments/?p=93#comment-3 The reality is that the NE Iowa Synod is not in violation of any ELCA policies…they are excercising the “bound conscience” clause of the CWA that allowed folks to dissent.

Here is the true mess with all this: Eventually, the policies will be implemented, schism will cause 10-30 percent of the churches to leave or redirect, and the ELCA will be weakened.

But by passing a resolution about “bound conscience”, without defining it (despite attempts from the floor, I was there) , and redefining it the way Luther used it, the ELCA has no one to blame but themselves.

They would have been far better off saying either yes or no, rather than the passive-agressive manner in which it was done.

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