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The Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC) is a conservative Christian religious body theologically adhering to confessional Lutheran doctrine. Founded in 1960 in Minnesota, it has approximately 85 congregations in 24 U.S. states, and missions in Canada, India, Africa, Nepal, and Myanmar.
"Private Absolution ought to be retained in the churches, although in confession an enumeration of all sins is not necessary." —Augsburg Confession, Article 11 In the Lutheran Church, Confession (also called Holy Absolution) is the method given by Christ to the Church by which individual men and women may receive the forgiveness of sins; according to the Large Catechism, the "third sacrament ...
Confessional Lutherans, [16] including the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, and the Church of the Lutheran Confession officially maintain that the Early apostolic Church had been led into the Great Apostasy by the Roman Catholic Church and that the Pope is the Antichrist ...
In 1980 through the involvement of Lutherans Alert National the group was renamed Conservative Lutheran Association (CLA).. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has 994 baptized members [ 3 ] in 4 congregations, [ 4 ] and is a member of the National Association of Evangelicals .
One of The Lutheran’s goals was to restore the confessions of faith found in the Book of Concord to prominence in Lutheran church life. These documents, especially the Augsburg Confession, have always been identified as the cornerstones of a distinctively Lutheran theological identity. But during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ...
The church ordains women as ministers. [3] In 2011, the denomination released a pastoral letter accepting the Supreme Court's decision to allow same-sex civil marriage, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] although religious same-sex marriages are not allowed in the denomination, neither does it ordain clergy who are living in same-sex unions.
Student originally took secular courses at Minnesota State University and religion courses at the college. It was incorporated into the Church of the Lutheran Confession in 1961, and a new building was constructed in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 1963, where classes began in September of that year. [2]
The Global Confessional & Missional Lutheran Forum (Global Forum) is a global gathering of national and regional Lutheran churches. The forum was founded in Dallas, Texas by invitation of the North American Lutheran Church in 2015 to bring together Confessional Lutheran bodies who wish to emphasize missional discipleship as the focal point of ministry in the world.