The Lutheran Confessional Synod (LCS) was a
Confessional Lutheran church, characterized by a strict interpretation of the
Lutheran Confessions and a historical liturgy. Organized in 1994, when Christ Lutheran Church in
Decatur, Illinois
Decatur ( ) is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois, with a population of 70,522 as of the 2020 Census. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Ce ...
, broke away from the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. , it has approxim ...
, it initially declared doctrinal agreement with the
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the
Evangelical Lutheran Synod,
but broke fellowship with those two synods on June 14, 1997, because of differences in the doctrine of the ministry and the Lord's Supper.
The LCS organized the Johann Gerhard Institute (a denominational publishing house) and St. Anselm Theological Seminary in 1996.
[
The LCS' first bishop was the Rev. Randy L. DeJaynes, consecrated to that position on October 7, 1994.][ As of 2009, stating a "desire to return to the Apostolic faith," some former LCS clergy were chrismated in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, while others entered the Roman Catholic Church. At least one is now a pastor in the ]Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America
The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA) is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States. There are twenty-eight pastors in the diocese, serving congregations in Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mich ...
. By 2012, it was reported that the church body had disbanded.
References
Further reading
*DeJaynes, Randy Lee. "''Come out from among them ...' : a journey out of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America''. Decatur, IL: Johann Gerhard Institute, 1996.
External links
Archived former website
Lutheran denominations in North America
Lutheran denominations established in the 20th century
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