Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Oak Forest, IL - Rev. David T. Mensing, Pastor
St. Johns Lutheran Church
The Concordia Lutheran Conference (CLC) is not a church in the Scriptural use of that word (as some synodical organizations seek to represent themselves), but is an organization of local churches or congregations bound together in true God-pleasing fellowship based on complete unity of faith and confession in accordance with God’s Word.
Membership in such an outward body is not required by Holy Scripture, nor is a synodical organization anywhere exemplified in the Bible. Yet purely practical considerations often make it advantageous for local churches to engage in cooperative projects with others of the same fellowship—things that would be unlikely for a small church to pursue and accomplish on its own, such as the preparation of a future ministry, the publication of Christian education materials and periodicals, and large-scale mission wo
The Concordia Lutheran Conference is admittedly a small organization by anyone’s standards, but there is good reason for its congregations to hang together under its banner rather than to join the larger, more powerful, and more influential church bodies in outward Lutheranism.
Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Oak Forest, IL - Rev. David T. Mensing, Pastor
St. Johns Lutheran Church