You may ask, “What is this attraction to Sacerdotalism? By the late 1980s many LCMS pastors became painfully aware that women suffrage (adopted in 1969) and voter polity do not mix. LCMS congregational administration was in meltdown. Difficult decisions often brought voters into conflict with each others’ marriages. The clergy divided on two solutions. Many adopted the closed-meeting corporate board-of-directors model for church administration. Others decided that Walther was wrong and ordination is a sacrament for clergy on the order of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. They follow early church father Ignatius’s dictum as published in the 2007 Fort Wayne Cornerstone, “Wherever the bishop appears, there let the congregation be; just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic church.”