The CLC is a confessional Lutheran church body
which is dedicated to proclaiming the Good News of Christ crucified for sinners. It is represented by congregations throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Africa and India. Our teachings and practices are as narrow and broad as the Scriptures themselves, since we bow only to the authority of our Lord’s inerrant Word. The salvation won for us through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the driving force behind our efforts as a confessional Lutheran church.
All of the CLC member churches confess that the Bible is the inspired and unerring Word of God. They confess the creeds of the Lutheran Church without qualification, as they are found in the Book of Concord of 1580. Scripture itself is the source and foundation of Christian teaching and faith — The Lutheran confessions are a faithful setting forth of what Scripture teaches. The name of our church body is a witness to what we believe; it is a continual reminder of our responsibility to be truly Lutheran, and therefore Scriptural in our teaching and in our practice. This principle holds true among us: “If it is not Scripture; it is not Lutheran!”
Please feel free to contact the congregation nearest you for more information about the CLC! (See listing of congregations)
The video of the CLC’s “Jubilee” 50th Anniversary Worship Service (June 23, 2010) is now online.
CLC Missions
We believe that Christ’s death on the cross paid for each and every sin of each and every person on earth. We believe that therefore whoever has trust in this promise of God receives the benefits of that act,
namely eternal salvation. We believe that the Bible is the pure and perfect word of God given to men for the purpose of telling us this wonderful news and that whatever it says is absolute truth. We believe that it is our loving duty to God and our fellow men to promote and spread this same message to every corner of the globe, in order that all men might hear, believe, and receive salvation.
Find out more about our mission at www.LutheranMissions.org
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,” (Romans 3:23-24 23)
Pastoral Letter December
Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday. Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. (Psalms 37:5-7) Read More…
Sept – Pastoral Letter
We have only five loaves and two fish.” (Matthew 14:17 ESV) “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” (John 6:9 ESV)
John tells us that this miracle took place at the time of the Passover. This would place this event at about a year before Jesus’ crucifixion. Matthew places this event immediately after the beheading of John the Baptist by King Herod. Matthew tells us that “When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat to a solitary place.” The opposition to Jesus was increasing. The storm clouds of the cross were beginning to gather. Jesus was in the northern province of Galilee far from Jerusalem. Read More…
April – Pastoral Letter
Ezekiel cried, “Dem dry bones!”
Ezekiel cried, “Dem dry bones!”
Ezekiel cried, “Dem dry bones!”
“Oh, hear the word of the Lord.”Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. Read More…