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Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) is an association of Lutheran congregations located primarily in the United States. It describes itself as an affiliation of autonomous Lutheran churches and not a denomination. It began in 2001 in response to some liberal views of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of 2022, it has approximately 2.9 million baptized members in 8,640 congregations.
The North American Lutheran Church ( NALC) is a Lutheran denomination with over 420 congregations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, counting more than 142,000 baptized members. The NALC believes all doctrines should and must be judged by the teaching of the Christian Scriptures (the Bible ), in keeping with the historic Lutheran ...
Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS): Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Mankato, Minnesota) North American Lutheran Church (NALC): North American Lutheran Seminary (Ambridge, Pennsylvania): housed at Trinity School for Ministry ( Evangelical Anglican) Institute of Lutheran Theology (Brookings, South Dakota): pan-Lutheran.
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ), also known as the Missouri Synod, [3] is an orthodox, traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 1.8 million members as of 2021, [4] it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States, behind the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Church of the Lutheran Confession. Concordia Lutheran Conference. Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Independent Lutheran Diocese. Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. Lutheran Churches of the Reformation. Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference. Protes'tant Conference. United Lutheran Mission Association.
Most Lutheran schools in the United States are associated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), though there are several which are associated with other Lutheran denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ ...
Lutheran denominations are Protestant church bodies that identify, to a greater or lesser extent, with the theology of Martin Luther and with the writings contained in the Book of Concord. Most Lutheran denominations are affiliated with one or more regional, national, or international associations, the largest of which—the Lutheran World ...