Church denomination

I'm looking for guys thoughts on different church denominations. My church is currently hooked up with the elca. We are going to lose our pastor in May. We need to do something. There are 6 other churches in the area in the same boat. Any way there are a large part of the congregation that are not happy with the path that the elca is taking. They are pushing more and more politics. They are also pushing beliefs that go completely against the Bible.

So my question for you guys, we are looking at switching to either new life church or lcmc.

What do you guys know about either choice.

We are very pleased with LCMC. So far no liberal policies that are in the ELCA.

I'm with you on that Joe. If you have faith and live life accordingly what's the deal if I go to church or not.

Hate to say it but churches around here other than Catholic are going thru many 'Reorganizations' as well teachings are changing, doctrines are swapped as fast as some change socks.  Catholic is also changing but more slowly and as I see it not for the better.  Youth are yet again abandoning organized religions due to perceived inconsistency.

We are members/attenders at a WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) Church with a church-supported preK-8 elementary school.  I often say that, "If Lutherans were Mennonites, the WELS would be Amish!"  In all seriousness, we are very Othodox in our teaching and belief, and subscribe to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, as well as the Athanasian, Nicene, and Apolstle's Creeds.  Our church also supports an Area Lutheran High School (grades 9-12).  The Freedom in Christ that we enjoy is seen by some as a

I think Dr Allis pretty much summed it up! This is a subject I could spend hours on, as many, I'm sure could, but I need to get outside and clean up Shameless's mess! 

Can someone tell me what LCMC is?  What do the initials stand for?

LCMC & LCMS are 2 different groups. Google it.  Could be wrong but I think the LCMC spun out of ELCA as a more conservative approach.  There is a website that explains the present structure.

I was raised in ELCA but in college began attending LCMS. As others stated, much more conservative and I really like it. I've also attended a Mennonite church when I was working in Kansas a couple summers back and I liked it. They followed a simple, direct interpretation of the Bible (primarily focusing on New Testament). 

I belong to an ELCA church and we are large enough to have a pastor and an assistant pastor. My M-I-L's church (also ELCA) is much smaller and her pastor serves 3 rural churches, and in a few years will be in the same boat as bobkyllo,  the pastor plans on retiring and nobody on the horizon to replace her.

My thinking is in line with Lou and Hubert.
We are between churches as we speak.
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I listen to an online services of now. until I find what I’m satisfied with I will keep up with the online church.

The old joke is that ELCA stands for Even, Liberals', Communists and Atheists'. Hope that doesn't offend anyone. We go to Community Church near here, they seem stay with what the bible says. And out of politics as much as possible. As I understand it Jesus wasn't trying to start a church, his goal was salvation. However a church is important, to have a place to teach the word of God and have a fellowship.

Anyone remember Jim and Tammy Baker !!!???? And the PTL corruption

I would suggest that you attend several churches and maybe a couple outside your comfort zone.   I was raised Southern Baptist, my wife Catholic. I converted. Boy that was a stretch for me. I didn't agree with everything but kept an open mind. We both walked away from the church after all the sex scandals came out and both our priests were reassigned because of said scandals. Wife attends a nondenominational huge mega church now. It's vibrant and has three pastors and she enjoys it. Me, not so much but I go every once in awhile to keep her happy.

Small church just across the field from me is LCMS , as was the church I joined way back when I was 16,  (that church changed to ELCA later) , so this church I have now been a member of since 1971
  The pastor at the church has been installed about a year now after last retired after 6 years there . Odd thing he was raised Catholic and decided around 30 to get more involved in his religious beliefs and decided to research more into religion, ended up becoming a Pastor in MO SYNOD . 
  Seems there were a couple divisions and mergers in the Lutheran church over the years and a lot of changes in ideas - Abortion being one big issue , along with Gay Marriage , Women Pastors and other interpretations' of scripture . 
  One thing I can say is for the last 50 years I have not missed a chance to go to church IF IT SNOWS as I have been plowing the parking lot there ever since I joined .
 use to be a gravel lot when I first joined and I did the grading on that as well as graveling it a few times . On the new church building they built i put in the septic system for it and also clearing much of area for new parking lot 
  Kind of looks like I might spend more time there later as wife is buried there , in part of Church Cemetery I was hired to create back in the 80's - never thinking it might be a final resting place within the work I created . 

Edited by Coke-in-MN - 19 Jan 2022 at 10:43pm