Concordia Lutheran Conference
Concordia Lutheran Conference | |
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Classification | Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod |
Absorbed | Fellowship of Lutheran Congregations (2004) |
Congregations | 5 |
Ministers | 3 |
Other name(s) | Orthodox Lutheran Conference |
Official website | www |
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The Concordia Lutheran Conference (CLC) is a small organization of Lutheran churches in the
History
In the 1930s, some theologians and leaders in the LCMS began advocating the establishment of
Among those pastors who supported Kretzmann were Wallace McLaughlin, who eventually became, with Kretzmann, one of the founders of the OLC, and Harold Romoser, who was well connected to the president of the LCMS, John Behnken, but did not join the OLC. The synod's 1950 convention provided additional impetus to the eventual split when it approved the Common Confession that had been drawn up with the ALC.[5]
However, the big issue that drove the split was the question of whether breaking an
About four years later, the OLC split. Some of its members joined the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, some remained independent, and the remainder formed the CLC.[5] Kretzmann, who taught at the OLC's seminary, had been accused of teaching false doctrine by another pastor, resulting in Kretzmann and those who supported him breaking fellowship with several of the congregations in the OLC; those congregations then formed the CLC.[6]
In 2004, the CLC absorbed the congregations of the Fellowship of Lutheran Congregations. The FLC was organized in 1979, when a group of Lutheran congregations left the Lutheran Churches of the Reformation over issues of excommunication.[7]
Scriptural Publications, the publishing arm of the CLC, has published an anthology, Historical Essays by David T. Mensing: The Missouri Synod's Slide into Heterodoxy, 1932–1947; The Establishment of Heterodoxy in the Missouri Synod, 1950; and The Founding of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference, 1951.
Teachings
The CLC describes itself as "orthodox," with special emphasis on the inerrant, literal interpretation of the Christian Bible. It subscribes to the Book of Concord and the Brief Statement of the Doctoral Position of the Missouri Synod in its doctrinal stance.
Purpose
The CLC is a gathering of churches to engage in tasks that would be hard for any one church to perform.[8] This includes the training of future pastors in their seminary program.[8]
External links
- Official website
- A Little Lecture on Little Little-Known Lutheran Synods by Edward C. Fredrich
- The Doctrinal Differences Between the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Church of the Lutheran Confession, The Concordia Lutheran Conference, and the Lutheran Churches of the Reformation. by Lyle W. Lange
- Archived official website of the Fellowship of Lutheran Congregations
References
- ISBN 9780691020570.
- ^ David Mensing, Historical Essays, (Oak Forest, Illinois: Scriptural Publications, 2009), 3.
- ^ "Constitution of the Concordia Lutheran Conference: Article XI - Term of Office". Concordia Lutheran Conference. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
Officers and members of standing committees shall be elected to hold office for one year
- ^ "Congregations and Corporate Addresses". Concordia Lutheran Conference. February 20, 2010. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
- ^ a b c d Peperkorn, Todd A. (April 2021). "The Splintering of Missouri: How Our American Context Gave Rise to Micro-Synods as a Solution to Theological Conflict" (PDF). Concordia Theological Quarterly. 85 (2). Concordia Theological Seminary: 158–162. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
- ^ "Our Declaration". Concordia Lutheran Conference. January 18, 1956. Archived from the original on August 8, 2007.
- ^ Mensing, David T. (July 2, 2015). "Introducing The Pastors of The F. L. C. N." Concordia Lutheran Conference. Archived from the original on April 1, 2018. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
- ^ a b "What is the Concordia Lutheran Conference?". Concordia Lutheran Conference. Archived from the original on October 12, 1999. Retrieved March 19, 2015.