Much fanfare was made when in 2001 when the LCMS in convention affirmed “The book The Voice of our Church on the Question of Church and Ministry, by Dr. C.F.W. Walther…as the definitive statement under Holy Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions of the Synod’s understanding on the subject of church and ministry.” This is our public doctrine.
Clear enough, right? So are we bound by Thesis Eight on Ministry from the English translation of the 1851 Milwaukee Synodical convention which reads as follows: “The (more…)