{"id":393,"date":"2010-02-15T07:11:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/wp\/?p=393"},"modified":"2010-02-15T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:11:57","slug":"elca-is-not-the-church-by-luthers-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/02\/15\/elca-is-not-the-church-by-luthers-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"ELCA is not the church, by Luther&#8217;s definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Also, for Martin Luther, the real church consisted of people who hear the Gospel and proclaim it, Croghan said. The institutional church arose to aid that mission, &#8220;but institutions are not the church.&#8221; And, when to ensure their continued existence, such institutions compromise Gospel truth, they can be readily shed, Croghan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ELCA is not the church, by Luther&amp;apos;s definition,&#8221; Croghan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an article about congregations in South Dakota leaving ELCA, I came across this quote about ecclesiology. The rest of the article is good too.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.argusleader.com\/article\/20100214\/NEWS\/2140318\/1001\/rss01\">Gay clergy vote splits South Dakota Lutheran churches | argusleader.com | Argus Leader<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, for Martin Luther, the real church consisted of people who hear the Gospel and proclaim it, Croghan said. The institutional church arose to aid that mission, &#8220;but institutions are not the church.&#8221; And, when to ensure their continued existence, such institutions compromise Gospel truth, they can be readily shed, Croghan said. &#8220;The ELCA is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/02\/15\/elca-is-not-the-church-by-luthers-definition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ELCA is not the church, by Luther&#8217;s definition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,33,34,68,89,98,99,121,126,158],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-clergy","tag-communication","tag-community","tag-gathering","tag-injustice","tag-lgbtqi","tag-listening","tag-preaching","tag-relationship","tag-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}