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MARKS OF THE CHURCH
The Lutheran Confessional Synod believes that the true Church exists where the Holy Gospel is taught and preached in its truth and purity, and where the Holy Sacraments are rightly administered. Church bodies where this does not occur are heterodox bodies and cannot be considered a reflection of the true Church, even though true believers may exist within them. It must be the responsibility of every true believer to seek membership in a church body that is orthodox in its doctrine and practice. When a believer recognizes that a church body is heterodox, it is his Christian duty to leave such a body.
CREEDS & CONFESSIONS
Creeds are a means whereby the Church confesses her faith. The Lutheran Confessional Synod professes the three Ecumenical Creeds: the Apostles' the Nicene, and the Athanasian Creeds. The Confessions, or Symbols of the Church, are found in the Book of Concord (1580) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, including the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and its Apology, the Smalcald Articles, the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, Luther' s Small and Large Catechisms, and the Formula of Concord (Epitome and Solid Declaration). These Symbols are true expositions of Holy Scripture
FELLOWSHIP
The Lutheran Confessional Synod will recognize Fellowship only with those Lutheran church bodies that believe, teach, and confess the evangelical Lutheran faith as it comes to us through the Holy Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions. Such Fellowship includes Altar and Pulpit Fellowship, and all that requires agreement  in doctrine
SCRIPTURES
The Holy Scriptures are the inspired and inerrant Word of God and, as such, are the only infallible norm for faith and practice. Because they were verbally inspired by God the Holy Spirit, they cannot contain error. All that is taught therein is necessary  to a true understanding of doctrine and saving faith.
Holy Baptism

Through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism the Old Adam in us is drowned and we are regenerated through the water and God' s Word and reborn children of God through the saving faith wrought by the Holy Spirit. For this reason, the baptism of infants is both proper and necessary. God the Holy Spirit works faith where and when it pleases Him, and we dare not doubt that such faith can be, and is, worked in infants. Our Lord Christ said, "he  who believes and is baptized will be saved."
The Lord's Supper

In the Sacrament of the Lord' Supper, we receive the true Body and Blood of Christ, in, with, and under the bread and wine. Therein we are assured of the forgiveness of sin. The reception of Holy Communion is an act of fellowship with the Triune God, wherein we gather with other believers who are one with us in faith and doctrine. Only those who are one in faith and accept the doctrine of faith as set forth in the Holy Scriptures and the Confessions should commune together (closed communion). The practice of open communion is a recent innovation that has no place in the life of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and was not practiced in the early Church
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The Liturgy

The liturgy, or Divine Service, is itself a mystery. It is "God coming to His people" in Word and Sacraments. In its oldest form, the liturgy is as old as the Church Herself. It is, indeed, the Mass, which the signers of the Augsburg Confession rightly claimed that they had not abandoned. While there are other Services in use by the Church (Matins, Vespers, Compline, etc), the Mass--or the celebration of The Holy Communion--is, and should be, the primary Service of the Church. In The Lutheran Confessional Synod, we encourage weekly celebration of the Mass, the Holy Communion. While we do not believe that Holy Communion is necessary for salvation, we see in it a vivid reminder of the forgiveness of sins as Christ comes to us in His Body and Blood, as we commune with each other and all those who have gone before us in the True Faith. With Luther, we do not believe that Holy Communion should be celebrated in the absence of a pastor, except in those extremely rare instances when a pastor cannot be present for very long periods of time.

We believe that in the Mystery of the Sacrament, the True Body and Blood of Christ become present with the bread and wine during the Words of Institution, or the Verba. We do not claim to know at which point, as some Lutherans claim that we in the LCS "fix the moment." Nor do we believe in receptionism, the belief that the bread and wine are not the Body and Blood until received by the communicant. Likewise, we do not believe that the remaining elements should be returned to their containers or destroyed. Just as we do not know the precise moment the Sacrament becomes present, neither can we "fix a moment" when the Body and Blood are no longer present. The pastor should, then, try to be aware of the number of people who will commune so that there are sufficient elements for the Communion. All remaining Elements should be reverently consumed by the pastor and those he chooses to assist him, following the end of the Service.

We believe that all attempts to make the Mass "more palatable" by changing its form are both presumptuous and misguided, and no orthodox pastor or parish would allow such changes to take place. The Church has enough forms of worship in Her various Services, that such changes need not be contemplated.

As we believe that only men are called to the Office of the Holy Ministry, likewise we believe that women should not take a leading role in leading the liturgy.
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