The Concordia Lutheran Conference is a small organization of Lutheran churches in the United States

United States

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 which formed in 1957. It was a reorganization of some of the churches of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference, which had been formed in September, 1951 in Okabena, Minnesota following a break with Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 2.3 million members, it is both the eighth largest Protestant denomination and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Synod...

. It is the remaining successor of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference. The current president is the Reverend David T. Mensing, pastor of Peace Ev. Lutheran Church in Oak Forest

Oak Forest, Illinois

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, Illinois

Illinois

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. It is in fellowship with 7 mission congregations in Russia

Russia

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 and Nigeria

Nigeria

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Scriptural Publications, the publishing arm of the Concordia Lutheran Conference, has just published an anthology, Historical Essays by Rev. David T. Mensing: "The Missouri Synod's Slide into Heterodoxy, 1932-1947"; "The Establishment of Heterodoxy in the Missouri Synod, 1950"; and "The Founding of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference, 1951."

Teachings

The Conference describes itself as "orthodox," with special emphasis on the inerrant, literal interpretation of the Christian Bible

Bible

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. The Concordia Lutheran Conference subscribes to the Book of Concord

Book of Concord

The Book of Concord or Concordia is the historic doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church, consisting of ten credal documents recognized as authoritative in Lutheranism since the 16th century...

and the Brief Statement of the Doctoral Position of the Missouri Synod in its doctrinal stance.

External links

• A Sketch of the Doctrinal Position of the Concordia Lutheran Conference
• History of the Concordia Lutheran Conference
• Directory of Congregations in the Concordia Lutheran Conference
• A Little Lecture on Little Little-Known Lutheran Synods by Edward C. Fredrich
• The Doctrinal Differences Between the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Church of the Lutheran Confession, The Concordia Lutheran Conference, and the Lutheran Churches of the Reformation. by Lyle W. Lange