Questions for ELCA members

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7. I went to a Missouri Synod Sunday School for a few years

as a child because it was a German congregation and my German born great aunt lived with us until I was 11 years old. No ashes. No weekly communion. By the standards of a Methodist or Baptist church it would have seemed formal because the service was more liturgical than those churches. But compared with a Catholic or Anglican mass, it was simpler.

From age 11 onward I belonged to an LCA church, was confirmed there and married there. No ashes, no weekly communion. Generally, the atmosphere was more friendly than the MS church and not as narrow and literal as the MS church.