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Altar and pulpit fellowship describes an ecumenical collaboration between two Christian organizations, and is a Lutheran term for full communion, [1] or communio in sacris. [2] Altar refers to the altar in Christian churches, which holds the sacrament of Holy Communion. Pulpit refers to the pulpit, from which a pastor preaches.
The Lutheran Church-Hong Kong Synod becomes a partner church with altar and pulpit fellowship. [87] 1978 The Lutheran Book of Worship, developed by the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship, is published, but the LCMS declines to authorize it for use in its congregations. [81] Mission work begins in Haiti. [130] 1979
The European Lutheran Conference (ELC) is an association of Confessional Lutheran churches in Europe. The full members of the conference are in altar and pulpit fellowship with one another. The members of the ELC are also members of the International Lutheran Council .
On the other side, several churches, including the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, the Malagasy Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania, which recognize marriage as solely the union between a man and a woman, have broken ties ...
It is a member of the International Lutheran Council and is in altar and pulpit fellowship with most of that group's members. [5] The LCMS is headquartered in Kirkwood, Missouri , a suburb west of St. Louis and is divided into 35 districts —33 of which are geographic and two (the English and the SELC ) non-geographic.
The Lutheran Church - International (LC-I) [1] is an American Christian denomination established in 1967 and based in Lyons, New York. Its president from 1967 to 1998 was Pastor E. Edward Tornow of North Dakota. [2] From 1967 to 2011 the LC-I was known as the International Lutheran Fellowship. [3]
One of Krauth’s most controversial acts was to prepare a series of theses on pulpit and altar fellowship. Called the “Akron-Galesburg Rule,” these may be summarized as saying “Lutheran pulpits are for Lutheran ministers only, and Lutheran altars are for Lutheran communicants only.”
The Lutheran Heritage Foundation and Lutherans in Africa are the Mission Diocese's partners in foreign mission. The Mission Diocese declared altar and pulpit fellowship with the Mission Province of Sweden and the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of Norway in 2015 and with Lutheran Church—Canada in 2017. [36] [37]