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...Or No Juggernaut?
Abstract: Word Alone Director Mark Chavez urges "perspective" on synod assembly votes.
Responding to the results from Synod Assemblies so far, Word Alone Director Mark Chavez urges readers to keep the results in "perspective": the synod assembly results, he ventures, might not reflect the majority opinion in the ELCA.
Possible reasons for this might include disaffected congregations refusing to send delegates to synod assemblies and excessive influence of clergy.
Of course, there's also some saber rattling:
If you're a churchwide or synodical leader, or a pastor or anyone else who is eagerly pressing the ELCA to change its ordination standards, even if you were to get a majority of synod assemblies to agree with you (which you are nowhere close to getting) or a majority at a churchwide assembly, keep the votes in perspective. They may be misleading. Continue pressing for change and you may very likely drive the denomination to the same precipice as our full communion partners in the United Church of Christ, The Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church USA.
