Having read some about the issues sweeping the ELS, I just have one question: why in the world are they going to civil war over this? We (the WELS and ELS) are in communion with the Ukrainian Lutheran Church, a church that practices the threefold division of the ministry. This is more radical than anything Rolf Preus may believe, but he has to go? I think it is safe to say that I am perplexed by the Doctrine of the Ministry in my new synod.