Review and Story of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Lake Charles, LA

I'm sorry that this is somewhat still a jumble of thoughts. It is hard to get everything straight in this article because the members of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Lake Charles, LA did so much to hurt and reject my family and then show outright that the Bible means very little to them that it hurt a lot. There is not a "community of faith" in that building. There is only a "country club," and it is not a congregation where I belong being that I want to be in a community of faith.

While I would like to give St. Paul Lutheran Church a good review, I cannot do that at all. I grew up going to St. Paul Lutheran Church, and to be honest, there were only two pastors that I truly liked while I went there. However, I could tolerate the others.

By now, it is simply a country club, and there is no doubt about it.

St. Paul Lutheran Church is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). It has been a member ever since the ELCA was formed.

However, the last things on the members' minds are ministry, faith, or caring about others. I can say this from experience.

The most recent episode drove my whole family away from the church.

However, I will first state that yes, it follows a typical Lutheran service on Sundays and there is usually communion. So, if the only importance is attending a typical Lutheran church service and having communion, then going to this congregation is a decent option, but there are Episcopal churches that offer the same thing. The service is just in a little bit of a different order. It is not a huge deal because everything is there.

I was serving as the youth minister because, honestly, nobody else was interesting and everybody else said, "We don't need one," because "we have no youth." It shows right there that no ministry or evangelism was wanted because the members would make no effort to do any type of evangelism at all. They just expected the congregation to grow even though most of the youth that were there when I was a youth have grown up and moved away. There are a few that have children and are somewhat in town, but they rarely come and they rarely bring the children.