Archive for tag: Lutheran Church–Canada

Archive pour tag : Lutheran Church–Canada

The last two articles of “One Body” have focused on Catholic-Lutheran relations in Canada, and beyond, through the lenses of:

Close readers of both articles will notice references made to a Christian community of Canadian Lutherans that is neither a member of the Lutheran World Federation nor a signatory to the Joint Declaration. These are Christians belonging to Lutheran Church-Canada (LCC), which I am pleased to spotlight in this month’s blog.

LCC was founded in 1988 out of the St. Louis-based Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), after the latter withdrew from North American Lutheran church merger talks. By their own reckoning:

Ministry during World War II helped the Canadian church recognize its national identity and in 1988, most of the LCMS congregations in Canada left the [Missouri] synod to form an autonomous body called Lutheran Church–Canada remaining in church fellowship with the LCMS. LCC has 300 congregations from British Columbia to Nova Scotia and a membership of almost 60,000. Its head office is in Winnipeg and its current president (elected in 2017) is Rev. Timothy Teuscher. (See: www.lutheranchurchcanada.ca/who-we-are/history/)
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Posted: Aug. 9, 2024 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14441
Categories: One BodyIn this article: Lutheran Church–Canada
Transmis : 9 aoüt 2024 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=14441
Catégorie : One BodyDans cet article : Lutheran Church–Canada

Our Lord Jesus prays in His High Priestly prayer in John 17: “Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one” (v. 17). Our Lord Jesus is praying for His disciples. He is praying for His Church. He is praying for you and me today.

Our Lord’s prayer can be understood in this way: that His Church would remain one—not that we would somehow achieve this oneness by our actions. Our Lord is praying that the oneness that we already have in Him would be preserved. That we would remain one. The Lutheran Reformers expressed this in the Augsburg Confession in saying that after coming to agreement on what we teach and confess we would live “in unity and concord in the one Christian Church” (AC Preface 4).
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Posted: Feb. 27, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13452
Categories: OpinionIn this article: dialogue, ecumenism, Lutheran Church–Canada
Transmis : 27 févr. 2023 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=13452
Catégorie : OpinionDans cet article : dialogue, ecumenism, Lutheran Church–Canada

Participants in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), and Lutheran Church-Canada’s (LCC) ongoing ecumenical dialogue have released an interim report on their work so far. Entitled “On Closer Acquaintance,” the document is the culmination of six years of regular discussions between the three church bodies, and highlights the discovery of significant doctrinal agreement between the Anglican and Lutheran participants.

The authors are clear that there is still much work to be done before altar and pulpit fellowship between the two sides would be possible. Nevertheless, they have found the discussions promising enough to publicly declare their prayer “that, in the time and manner of His choosing, our Lord would grant each side in our conversations to acknowledge our ‘first cousin’ to be in fact a true sister church, with the result that we would welcome each other wholeheartedly to our respective altars and enjoy the blessed situation in which our clergy and people would be interchangeable with each other as we stand under the grace of God and work for His kingdom.”

In the meantime, they encourage all three church bodies to “consider the ways in which we can cooperate and come together in ways that fall short of full communion but do allow the greatest measure of cooperation while maintaining full theological integrity.”
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Posted: Feb. 23, 2016 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=8987
Categories: Communiqué, NewsIn this article: Anglican Church in North America, dialogue, ecumenism, Lutheran Church–Canada, Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Transmis : 23 févr. 2016 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=8987
Catégorie : Communiqué, NewsDans cet article : Anglican Church in North America, dialogue, ecumenism, Lutheran Church–Canada, Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod

Representatives of Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) met together February 1 in an attempt to chart a course for formal talks between LCC and the CCCB. Participants of the Working Group have suggested “Christian marriage” in general and “pastoral preparation and support for Christian marriage” in particular as possible topics to guide ongoing discussions.

First steps toward conversation began through informal connections in the St. Catharines area, and were followed by a brief meeting between representatives of both sides in May 2012 to discuss the possibility of formal discussion. After conferring with its Permanent Council and Commission for Christian Unity, the CCCB has approved a three-year dialogue with LCC. LCC entered into the discussions at the recommendation of its President, Rev. Dr. Robert Bugbee, and the Commission for Theology and Church Relations.
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Posted: Feb. 6, 2013 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14298
Categories: NewsIn this article: CCCB, dialogue, Lutheran Church–Canada
Transmis : 6 févr. 2013 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=14298
Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : CCCB, dialogue, Lutheran Church–Canada