Posted on 02/16/2012 12:25:31 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
Despite the bad feelings it caused, I could not bring myself to commune at my brothers ELCA church. Now that they have left the synod, no problem. It is bot the open altar with the episcopalians that bother me. It is rather the departure from biblical orthodoxy that I no longer felt comfortable in approaching their altar
If one is a Confessional Lutheran: absolutely.
The website was down yesterday, but the link below while lengthy reflects this. Read the 'Concluding Summary' of why this is so from the Formula of Concord. As to other 'Churches of the Reformation' standing I can't say, but for Lutherans, this is the correct stance.
I would have preferred him leaving out the account of charitable works.
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