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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
HAHAHAHA I knew this was somewhere on GC. My boyfriend's dad is a WELS pastor. Since everyone on GC knows my political views, and let's face it, I am a feminazi, I think their church is straight-up ridiculous. Anyway, ISUKappa, tell me more about your type of Lutheran. The boyfriend is not overly happy with WELS and I think he knows we're not going anywhere if he stays in that, but he hasn't really looked for a new church too much yet.
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Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is still on the conservative/traditional side of Lutheranism but is a bit more in the 21st Century than WELS. Women have the right to vote in congregational matters and can hold an office in the church body that stems beyond Nursery and Sunday School. (I think my parents' church even has a woman Treasurer, oh the
HORROR!) They cannot serve as Pastors, but there are many women in the church who go on to become DCEs or Deaconesses and lead through those veins.
Depending on the church, services can run from Straight-from-the-Lutheran-Worship traditional to tambourine-and-trap-set contemporary.
We believe in the Real Presence of the body and blood in and with the bread and wine at communion, and ask that all communicants believe the same. Usually, only LCMS members are able to take communion at an LCMS church and they do not commune while at other denominations. (The huzbin and I have been attending an LCMS church in town since March and have yet to commune because we didn't feel comfortable doing so until we had had a chance to talk to the Pastor, which we just did before Christmas.)
We believe in the Triune God--God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit; each a separate entity but of the same essence.
We believe that it was by God's Grace that he sent his Son to be our Savior, that through Faith in Christ alone we may be saved, and that the Scripture is God's infalliable word and should be the sole rule and norm for Christian doctrine.
A lot more information is on the LCMS website (
www.lcms.org).
My sister converted to Catholicism when she married her husband and says, to her, there isn't much difference in the base beliefs between our church and Catholicism.