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...past 75 years, the number of Lutheran church groups in the U.S. has been reduced by merger from about 60 to a more or less manageable 14. By fall there will be only ten-and the prospects are strong that even more unity is in the offing...
...Minneapolis a fortnight ago. delegates to the annual convention of the Lutheran Free Church (membership: 90,000, largely Norwegian-Americans) voted 530 to 112 for merger with the big (2,365,000) American Lutheran Church-itself the product of an earlier alliance of three smaller churches. Dr. John Stensvaag, the Free Church's president, says that it can no longer afford the luxury of remaining a splinter group if it is "to go forward worthily in a manner good for the Kingdom." The American Lutheran Church will vote on the Free Church's application for membership...
...Detroit's grandiose Cobo Hall this week, four Lutheran bodies-the United Lutheran Church in America (2.500,000), the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (630,000), the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (36,000) and the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (25,000)-will simultaneously hold their final conventions as separate bodies. Next morning, the 6,000 delegates and visitors will go back to Cobo Hall for the first Holy Communion service as mem bers of the nation's newest and largest Lutheran body: the Lutheran Church in America. "Unless and until Lutherans are sitting on the same side...
...years, the biggest barrier to serious discussions of Lutheran unity has been the independent stand of the doctrinally conservative, fast growing (2,500,000 members) Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Historically wary of cooperating with church groups that do not share its theological views, the Missouri Synod has never joined the National Lutheran Council-the service organization that coordinates such matters as public relations, welfare and mission activities for most of the nation's other Lutheran groups...
Franklin Clark Fry, president, United Lutheran Church in America...