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3 days ago · Founded in 1993, the International Lutheran Council (ILC) is the second largest international association of Lutheran churches after the LWF, representing 7.15 million Lutherans in 54 church bodies as of 2018.
1 day ago · Statues of William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox, influential theologians in developing the Reformed faith, at the Reformation Wall in Geneva. Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
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5 days ago · Lutherans trace their roots back to Martin Luther (1483-1546), a German monk, priest and theologian of the early Sixteenth Century. Luther’s personal search to find a gracious and forgiving God led him into an intensive study of the Bible and Church teachings. Luther discovered that the Pope and the hierarchy had for several centuries been ...
2 days ago · The Book of Concord is the name given to that book, published in 1580, that contains the Lutheran Confessions. Concord comes from the Latin Concordia, meaning unity or agreement. The Book of Concord contained an exposition of those essential teachings of the Gospel that Lutherans based their unity upon. They also served as a platform for unity ...
4 days ago · Our Faith. What our congregation believes can best be described by the following four adjectives. We Lutherans are Evangelical, Biblical, Sacramental, and catholic. We are Evangelical. We are a church that emphasizes the "evangel," which is the New Testament word for "the Gospel." Nothing is more essential to our faith than the Gospel of Jesus ...
5 days ago · The 100th anniversary of the formation of the Oklahoma District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod will be celebrated with a special worship service on May 19 at St. John's Lutheran Church, 408 W Colorado in Okarche. The festivities will include another reason for celebration: St. John's, the oldest house of worship in the Lutheran Church ...
5 days ago · Graduate Catalog 2021-2022[ARCHIVED CATALOG] Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. Print-Friendly Page (opens a new window) The Rev. Mary Hinkle Shore, Ph.D. - Rector and Dean. Mission Statement: To teach, form, and nurture women and men for public ministry in a context that is Christ-centered, faithfully Lutheran and ecumenically committed.
