Thanks for this and I'm glad we are having these kinds of meetings to address these things. My District of the six New England states has the top five spots of all fifty states for lowest church attendance (somehow Rhode Island messed it up by not making it a complete sweep for New England) - sigh. But my comment is that the three myths that debunked are basically of the nature that everyone else has it as bad as we do -- and that doesn't give me a lot of comfort. Sort of like Homer Simpson in one episode of The Simpsons who said, "Hey, SAT scores last year declined in America at the lowest rate in ten years- isn't that great !!!!! " For whatever it counts here's a debunking from me based on my observations -"LCMS Lutherans contrary to belief are not sad, cold and emotionless people; on the contrary they are wonderful and love Jesus and are faithful and aren't ready to give up in the slightest !!!!" Thanks.