The sad story of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Minnesota South District [MNS] selling University Lutheran Chapel [ULC] and planned eviction of the congregation there took another turn, with MNS supposedly serving eviction papers on ULC (reference here, but no documentation). There is a substantial discussion about the propriety of ULC suing MNS between Pastor David Kind and Pastor Mark Surburg, which you can read here. Here is my question: Do those who allege that ULC is wrong to sue MNS (on the grounds of 1 Cor. 6, which instructs Christians not to take each other to court) also believe it is wrong for MNS to use the courts and temporal powers to force the congregation out of its church? Isn’t that the same problem,…