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		Lutherans were thus the first, and one might argue, the most quintessential evangelicals.) The state churches so formed tended to be rationalistic, cultural religions -- preaching new agricultural techniques and doctrines of social progress rather than the Gospel -- the fruit of the new liberal theology being developed in German seminaries.
		Like the Catholics, these confessional Lutherans, recognizing that the Protestant civil religion of the public schools was inimical to their faith, established an extensive system of parochial schools to educate their children in a way that would be supportive of their faith.
		Many confessional Lutherans have taken to calling themselves "evangelical catholics." They are catholic in their historical creeds, their worship, and their sacramentalism, and they are evangelical in their trust in the good news of Christ, that in His Cross he has saved us by sheer grace for a life of Christian freedom.
	www.confessionallutherans.org /papers/touchgev.html (2615 words)

	Confessional - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation.
		Confessionals in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
		Sometimes a confessional will be built into the church walls and have separate doors for each compartment; other confessionals can be free-standing structures where curtains are used to conceal penitents (and even the priest in some confessionals) from the rest of the church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confessional (643 words)

	The Book of Concord -- What is a Lutheran? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Lutheran Reformation was not a "revolt," but rather began as a sincere expression of concern with the false and misleading teachings, which, unfortunately, even to this very day, obscure the glory and merit of Jesus Christ.
		The word "confession" is used in a variety of ways, but when we speak of a "confessional" Lutheran we mean a Lutheran who declares to the world his faith and most deeply held belief and conviction, in harmony with the documents contained in the Book of Concord.
		Confessional Lutheran pastors are required to "subscribe" unconditionally to the Lutheran Confessions because they are a pure exposition of the Word of God.
	www.bookofconcord.org /whatisalutheran.html (1574 words)

	Why is the Lutheran Church a Liturgical Church?
		A Confessionally Lutheran congregational piety is characterized by the regular proclamation of the Gospel and the regular administration of the Lord’s Supper, within the framework of an orderly, dignified, Scripturally-based and historically-informed pattern of worship.
		The Lutheran Reformers of the sixteenth century were not sectarian innovators who set out to create a new church, but they acknowledged, and rejoiced in, their continuity with the church of the apostles and ancient Christian Fathers.
		The liturgical ceremonies of the Lutheran Church, many of which have their origin in the apostolic church, are indeed useful for the maintenance of dignity in worship and for the cultivation of reverence and devotion among worshipers.
	www.blc.edu /comm/gargy/gargy1/liturgical_church.html (5367 words)

	Confessional Lutheran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Among the CELC are the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
		Lutheran church bodies and Lutheran individuals that identify themselves as confessional hold to a "quia" (Latin for "because") rather than a "quatenus" (Latin for "insofar as") subscription to the Book of Concord.
		Confessional Lutherans are believed to represent about 20% of the 70 million Lutherans worldwide although they would claim to be those most faithful to the Book of Concord of the 16th century and Luther's own teaching.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confessional_Lutheran (564 words)

	WELS Questions and Answers-- Religion - Other Lutheran Church bodies
		The Church of the Lutheran Brethren was founded in Milwaukee in 1900 by a group of pastors and laymen who adhered to the strict Lutheran Pietism of the Haugean movement in Norway.
		The small Confessional Lutheran Church in Sweden and Norway and a confessional Lutheran congregation in Finland are in fellowship with the WELS and ELS.
		The LCS is the Lutheran Confessional Synod headquartered in Decator, Illinois.
	www.wels.net /sab/qa/rel-o-luth-01.html (3126 words)

	The Orthodox Lutheran Heritage of Confessional Fellowship
		This is the confessional Lutheran doctrine of church fellowship as it is presented in the Augsburg Confession.
		Confessional Lutherans in the Missouri Synod must mark and avoid persistent and openly unrepentant unionists and syncretists and other errorists who belong to the Missouri Synod.
		If the theological leadership from among the confessional Lutherans in the Missouri Synod and their counterparts in the Wisconsin Synod and the ELS were to set aside synodical loyalties in a higher pursuit of genuine confessional Lutheran consensus, I believe that God would richly bless their efforts.
	www.christforus.org /Papers/Content/confessionalfellowship.html (7710 words)

	A Case For A Confessional Lutheran And Classical Education
		Lutheran parents need schools that will help them 1) complete the task of training a child in the way he should go, and 2) do the job right.
		Lutheran doctrine, fully comprehended and taught, with its doctrines of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, justification, theology of the cross, the Church, two kingdoms, and vocation is the best and should be the only foundation for the preaching and teaching of the church and the Lutheran school.
		What is needed is the restoration of and commitment to a full Lutheran education, that is truly and fully Lutheran [biblical] from the earliest years through the high school and college levels.
	mtco.com /~preuslh/ACaseForAConfessionalLutheranAndClassicalEducation.php (1734 words)

	ELLC-Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This is the homepage of the Northern Illinois Confessional Lutherans (NICL).
		Texas Confessional Lutherans seeks to foster genuine Lutheran understanding and practice of the Christian faith in the Texas District of the Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod.
		Confessional Lutherans Australia (CLA) is an Association committed to upholding the confessional basis of the Lutheran Church of Australia (the LCA) and to give due regard to the Theses of Agreement, documents foundational to the formation of the LCA in 1966.
	www.lutheranliturgy.org /B/links-anno.htm (2858 words)

	Welcome to the CELC Website! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC) is the successor to the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America -- with one important exception: it is international in scope rather than restricted to North America.
		First founded in 1993 with thirteen confessional Lutheran national churches as members, the Conference has grown to twenty members today.
		© Copyright 2003 - 2005 by the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC).
	www.celc.info (124 words)

	CLC Lutheran Churches in South Carolina
		Confessional Lutherans realize that although God's Will isn't always the most exciting option to our sinful nature, it is definately what people need at this time of moral decline.
		Confessional Lutherans teach that people are sinful, and without Christ's redemptive work we would have no hope of eternal life.
		We consider ourselves to be true confessional Lutherans - still believing and teaching the Scriptural truths as taught and confessed by Martin Luther and by the many confessional Lutherans unknowingly trapped in their erring church bodies.
	sclutheran.com (1800 words)

	LUTHERAN MISSIOLOGY AND CAMPUS MINISTRY
		The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has a long and rich history of campus ministry dating back to the 1920's when campus ministries were established at the University of Wisconsin, Purdue, and the University of Minnesota.
		Lutheran liturgy is shaped and formed by the means of grace that stand at its center.
		Confessional fidelity, liturgical integrity, and catechetical clarity are essential for the church in any setting but they are especially acute for our mission on campus where the acids of unbelief are so potent and corrosive.
	www.ctsfw.edu /academics/faculty/pless/missiology.htm (1204 words)

	Lutheran churches
		The origins of the International Lutheran Council (ILC) can be traced to a meeting of leaders of confessional Lutheran churches in Uelzen, Germany in July 1952.
		Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod formed an autonomous Canadian church and three districts: The Alberta-British Columbia District, with offices in Edmonton, Alberta; Central District, with offices in Regina; and East District, with offices in Kitchener, Ontario.
		It is supported by the Lutheran Asia Church Leaders' Conference for the enhancement of communication and a sense of fellowship between the various Lutheran church bodies in the countries of Asia.
	www.ecumenism.net /denom/lutheran.htm (1048 words)

	KonfesionÃ¢li luteriskÃ¢ baznÃ®ca
		We are glad to announce that independent confessional Lutheran congregations in Latvia now are in a process of forming a new church body.
		The congregations which form the Confessional Lutheran Church of Latvia either have come from the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church (LELC) which is a member of the Lutheran World Federation, or are new Lutheran congregations which has been formed by former members of LELC, or as new mission congregations.
		We are following the Lutheran principle to avoid fellowship with the heterodox, but at the same time to seek fellowship with those who are faithful to the teaching of the Bible and to our Lutheran Confessions.
	www.luteranis.lv /draudz/index2.php?langueH=en (717 words)

	Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics
		They were to be directed to pastors, seminary students, and all with an interest in confessional Lutheran theology." From the Preface to Baptism, by David P. Scaer.
		The Lutheran Confessions themselves never claim to be the final work on the understanding and exegesis of the Scriptures; we recall Luther's statement on oratio, meditatio, tentatio with its blasts against theological know-it-alls and how often this statement of Luther's was repeated by the post-Reformation theologians in their dogmatics works.
		Stephenson draws richly from the writings of Luther, the Lutheran Orthodox dogmaticians, and modern confessional Lutheran theologians (especially Charles Porterfield Krauth, C. Walther, Herman Sasse, and Tom G. Hardt) in a treatment that is unabashedly Lutheran yet deals openly and forthrightly with new perspectives.
	www.lutheracademy.com /confessional_lutheran_dogmatics.htm (1006 words)

	Luther Land
		I am a Confessional Lutheran, one who adheres to the truths of Scripture as rediscovered during the Reformation.
		Confessional Lutherans are rare and should not be confused with those Lutherans who tend toward unscriptural, "modern" (liberal) theological systems.
		I will enthusiatically use the Confessional Lutheran label when it is necessary to set myself apart from unscriptural false teachings, but otherwise, I consider myself to be merely a Christian.
	www.swcp.com /~vogs/main.html (384 words)

	Long Thoughts of a Confessional Lutheran
		"The question of whether a Lutheran eventually becomes a Baptist or not is not one of being born a Baptist or not but whether or not parents properly catechised their children.
		It appears that this unfortunately was not the case in the areas we sampled, despite the courageous and commendable opposition of individual laypeople and pastors.
		In an amazing coincidence, Concordia Lutheran Church in Kirkwood was burnt to the ground in the middle of an Ablaze(TM) event that was taking place at the church.
	scotchisforlutherans.blogspot.com (3790 words)

	Redeemer Lutheran Church - St. Clair Shores, Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The purpose of this congregation shall be to extend the kingdom of God by the preaching and teaching of the Word of God and by the administration of the Sacraments according to the doctrinal standard of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and to foster Christian fellowship and love.
		This action was taken due to changes in the procedural methods (polity) of the Synod in its dealing with member congregations as specified in their Church Constitutions.
		In 1932, the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod issued a Brief Statement to convey in a convenient form the beliefs of the Church.
	www.redeemerlutheranchurch.org (629 words)

	Lutheran
		The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was formed in 1988 by the merger of two major Lutheran denominations, the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church in America, along with the much smaller Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches.
		As Lutheranism expanded, additional synods were formed, and by 1860 the General Synod had a membership of about 164,000, or two-thirds of the Lutherans in the United States.
		The Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in the United States in 1917 as the Norwegian Lutheran Church by the merger of three synods composed of members of Norwegian descent.
	www.biblehistory.com /Lutheran.html (3013 words)

	Pastor Zip's US Lutheran Web Links
		TAALC was formed mainly by congregations of the American Lutheran Church (many with a Free Lutheran heritage) that rejected the 1988 merger that created the ELCA.
		Formally called the Evangelical Lutheran Church in American until the current ELCA was being formed in 1987—but always spoken of as the "Eielsen Synod"—this synod of very independent Norwegian-American Pietists has apparently declined to one congregation, whose story is linked here.
		Organized in 1979, the ILC's roots are in independent Lutheran congregations that left the WELS in 1970 because they held that the King James Version to be the only acceptable English-language Bible.
	homepage.mac.com /pastorzip/uslutheranlinx.html (2346 words)

	WordAlone - Building an evangelical, confessional Lutheran future in America
		When Called to Common Mission, the full-communion agreement between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Episcopal Church, was passed, its proponents proclaimed how advantageous it would be to the mission of both churches.
		I read all of "Free in Christ to Serve the Neighbor: Lutherans Talk about Human Sexuality," the third study done under the banner of "Journey Together Faithfully." It is the new Evangelical Lutheran Church in America study on sexuality, on which the denomination is asking members to comment.
		WordAlone's Theological Advisory Board met November 16-18, 2002 in Mahtomedi, Minn. These international Lutheran theologians issued an Admonition for the Sake of the True Peace and Unity of the Church to the ELCA.
	www.wordalone.org (721 words)

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		The Confessional Lutheran Press was started in 1997 to make authentic Lutheran materials available and to further its discussion and defense.
		CLP has also published "Consecration and the Confessions," a paper given by the editor to the Lutheran Confessional Synod General Assembly in 1997, and found here slightly edited and in expanded form.
		Any and all discussion on the state of Lutheranism in America is encouraged.
	members.aol.com /confluthpr/personal/index.htm (176 words)

	Confessional Lutheran Ecclesiastical Art Resources
		This ecumenical “Lutheran” rosary from Sweden is too on the touchy-feely, uber-”mystical” side for me. If you look at the prayers suggested, a lot of them are of the “I breathe out my worry, I breathe in your peace” fluff variety. Not a lot of Jesus in these prayers.
		The first point is that Lutherans are not iconoclasts– we affirm and extol the benefits of the arts in worship settings, and the reverence and dignity that they lend to the Divine Service.
		Lutherans, though they may appear “Catholic” to many in their approval of statuary or saints’ images, do not find themselves especially intrigued by the purported transformative powers from a weeping Madonna or special graces received from wearing a saint medallion, for there is no Word of promise attached to these things.
	www.kellyklages.com /discussion (2448 words)

	St. Peter's Lutheran Church-Brooklyn, NY
		If one claims to be Lutheran but embraces the Lutheran Confessions in so far as they are in agreement with his own reason and understanding, he is not a "confessional Lutheran." A "confessional Lutheran" adjusts his reason and understanding to the Lutheran Confessions because they are the true interpretation of the Word of God.
		You cannot say, on the one hand, that one verse of Scripture settles a matter but on the other hand, one clear section from the Lutheran Confessions does not settle the matter of how that one verse is to be interpreted.
		If he is a "confessional Lutheran," the matter is settled, even though he might have previously been unaware of what the Lutheran Confessions taught on the subject.
	www.stpeter-brooklyn.org /subscription_interpretation.html (983 words)

	Missions - The Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The CLC is a confessional Lutheran church body which is dedicated to proclaiming the Good News of Christ crucified for sinners.
		They confess the creeds of the Lutheran Church without qualification, as they are found in the Book of Concord of 1580.
		The name of our church body is a witness to what we believe; it is a continual reminder of our responsibility to be truly Lutheran, and therefore Scriptural in our teaching and in our practice.
	lutheranmissions.org (159 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Also not uncommon are those Christians who have remained in Lutheran congregations which nonetheless, have almost overnight, changed the shape of their worship services to look just like the services of their Evangelical neighbors.
		The forums of www.ConfessionalLutheran.com present the opportunity for inquiry into and discussion of the answer of confessional Lutheran theology to this question.
		As statements of faith, the Lutheran Confessions became norms for teaching and preaching in those churches which recognized them as accurate summaries of Holy Scripture.
	www.confessionallutheran.com (235 words)

	CrossSearch category: Lutheran
		The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC), organized in 1962, is a unique family of conservative, evangelical Lutherans in 27 states and 3 Canadian provinces.
		Bound together by a common commitment to the inerrant Word of God and a Lutheran confessional heritage, the AFLC is not a synod but a free association that exists only for the purpose of serving congregations.
		The ECC is part of the Lutheran Restoration Movement within the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church with a valid Apostolic Succession.
	www.crosssearch.com /Churches_and_Denominations/Denominations/Lutheran (387 words)

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