The Northampton Seminar
Robert Benne
The results have been devastating. Rather than being exceptional in their promise for renewing American Protestantism, mainstream Lutherans have become exceptional in the rapidity and extensity of their decline. The National Council of Churches reports that the ELCA has “the sharpest rate of membership decline” among all mainline Protestant denominations.
http://juicyecumenism.com/2013/08/02/lutheran-exceptionalism-from-hope-to-decline/
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