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Játningarbundin evangelísk-lútersk kristni

Twice on Sundays, once on Wednesday and on festival days.

Unless you're worshiping these gnomes as idols, praying to them making sacrifices to them. Then this is not a sin. You need not worry or be concerned. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is a legalist and false teacher.

And I consider closed communion to be a grave sin that is practiced by those protestant enthusiasts who do not believe in the bodily presence of Christ in the Sacrament. So at least we have in common that the other practice is in grave sin.

No deaconesses should not distribute communion.

Any conservative Lutheran body will not be in fellowship with non-Lutheran denominations. We would require there to be the complete agreement of doctrine for Altar and Pulpit Fellowship to be declared. Which is why despite both being confessional and having a history with each other...

I wanted Jesus, I became so burned out by groups telling me about Jesus rather than giving me Jesus. Lutheranism is the only church where Jesus is not just an abstract concept. So I did the unthinkable and withdrew from my Reformed seminary and joined an LCMS parish.

False. I've heard it before with no actual proof.

It comes down to the Crux Theologorum "Why are some saved and not others." Calvinist answer the question by saying Gods sovereign choice, Lutherans say "its actually two different questions, WHy are some saved? 100% God, Why are some not saved/ fall away? 100% mans choice.

The first meaning is synonymous with Lutheran. It means nothing more and nothing less than one who subscribes unconditionally to the Book of Concord.

Then your desire is to stay away from the scriptures.

It comes down to the question of what is baptism. Many baptists with to focus on mode and recipient. The thing is we answer the question of what is baptism in different ways.

Not sure if I follow your question.

Yes, I am LCMS. Currently a seminarian. The Pew Forum is wrong. Like most people, they get very confused by Lutherans. From the Reformation until the late 1700s, early 1800s the terms Evangelical was a synonym for Lutheran. To call someone a Lutheran was to call them an evangelical, to call...

No, Lutherans are evangelical in the historic sense, but not the American sense.We are not part of American Evangelicalism. Which we reject.