Most institutions, including churches, celebrate anniversaries at quarter-century increments. This marks about a generation. The same is true for WELS. Throughout its history, it has celebrated quarter-century anniversaries. 2025 will […]
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Finally, North Carolina Lutherans were members of a national Lutheran church at a time when national evangelical churches were being torn apart due to sectional tensions. It was only after the country was at war that a schism finally occurred in the national Lutheran church. My dissertati...
The Lutheran Reformers taught that God’s Word points out to us that the Lord rules in two ways: the kingdoms of His left hand, the nations, physically and temporally, and through the Kingdom of God in Christ, spiritually and physically. Justinian knew this as well. Christians serve in bo...
Evangelical Churches. Conferences were held in 1586, 1631, and 1661; a plan of union was proposed by the Heidelberg professor Pareus (1615); the ReformedSynodof Charenton (1631) voted to admit Lutheran sponsors in baptism. But again the doctrine of the Lord’s Supper proved an obstacle, as...
The geographic pattern of withdrawals is consistent with the overall distribution of ELCA churches. Many withdrawals came from traditional strongholds in the Upper Midwest Region. New England states had very low rates of withdrawal (<1 %) while Iowa, Texas, North Carolina, and South Dakota showed...