Check out what Lord of the Mountain Lutheran Church (ELCA church located in Dillon, Colorado) has to say on their website,

"LOTM MISSION STATEMENT
In the spirit of the Reformation, Lord of the Mountains Lutheran Church continually seeks meaningful ways
of expressing our commitment to the life and teaching of Jesus.

We do this by...
*welcoming all people to full participation in our community of faith.
*Recognizing there are other ways to God than just our way." 
(find here)

If you didn't catch that, Lord of the Mountain's Pastor, Joseph Holub says this on his own website,

"1.  I affirm that Jesus Christ is the emergence of God's ongoing gracious presence in the world, and that through Jesus relationship with God is experienced.  Jesus is a doorway into the mystery of God."  (find here - click on "Joe.")

"Jesus is A doorway."  "There are other ways to God."

So the belief that all paths lead to God is OK according to the ELCA?  We see the ELCA teaching universal salvation, which has a very similar result. (read here)  Allowance of this teaching means acceptance, in my view.

For what it's worth, I also found these statements by Lord of the Mountain's Pastor, noteworthy.  

"Since The Enlightenment especially, but even long before that Christianity has been preoccupied with doctrine – faith defined as a set of right beliefs.  Christianity is spoiled, grossly distorted and loses its heart when it is turned into a set of correct doctrines that I must accept or else.   I mean read the Apostle's Creed.  There's nothing much there that really stirs the soul and lights a fire in one's heart. There's nothing there about loving one's neighbor or enemy or anybody else.  Doctrines and correct beliefs don’t make disciples but eventually turn us into narrow and intolerant fanatics.  Jesus is not a doctrine.  He is the expression of compassion and radical inclusive love who invites us to follow him on an adventure called discipleship that just may cost us our lives as we give ourselves away in the pursuit of love, compassion and justice.  He calls us beyond the narrow boundaries behind which we protect and isolate ourselves from others.  What Jesus asks for is our faith defined as trust and commitment in his way of loving and living.  Unfortunately somewhere along the line being Christian came to mean accepting beliefs about Jesus rather than actually following Jesus." (read here, click on "blog" and go about 3/4 down the page to a heading called "The Deficiency of Doctrine.") 

 


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