Oddly enough, there's no LCMS church in Harrisonville, Missouri. Harrison will have to get hopping. There is a WELS church and a Salvation Lutheran Church LLC.
The LCC may stand for Laestadian Lutheran Church, but I went to the LCC site and the church locator doesn't list any church there.
The LCC is a pietistic Swedish-Finnish movement from the 19th C that has had many splits over justification, the doctrine of the church, and the sacraments, even though they put a high emphasis on the Lutheran Confessions. Other pietist groups like Walther's had the same disputes, but only because they were merging pietism with Lutheranism:
Here's the Laestadian Lutheran Church's website. Other churches usually show pictures that obviously are meant to stress multiculturalism. I suspect often it is stock footage of generic groups, most likely paid models, showing all the races commingling happily. The picture the LCC shows definitely shows it to be a Scandinavian movement! There's 24 youths in the photo, all as white as can be, and all are blondes except for two or three with darker hair:
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Oddly enough, there's no LCMS church in Harrisonville, Missouri. Harrison will have to get hopping. There is a WELS church and a Salvation Lutheran Church LLC.
The LCC may stand for Laestadian Lutheran Church, but I went to the LCC site and the church locator doesn't list any church there.
The LCC is a pietistic Swedish-Finnish movement from the 19th C that has had many splits over justification, the doctrine of the church, and the sacraments, even though they put a high emphasis on the Lutheran Confessions. Other pietist groups like Walther's had the same disputes, but only because they were merging pietism with Lutheranism:
Justification:
http://users.erols.com/ewheaton/disputes/disputes-main.htm
http://www.srk.fi/index.php?p=history
The main points of dispute were the concepts of justification, God’s congregation, and of the sacraments.
Here's the Laestadian Lutheran Church's website. Other churches usually show pictures that obviously are meant to stress multiculturalism. I suspect often it is stock footage of generic groups, most likely paid models, showing all the races commingling happily. The picture the LCC shows definitely shows it to be a Scandinavian movement! There's 24 youths in the photo, all as white as can be, and all are blondes except for two or three with darker hair:
http://www.llchurch.org/index.cfm
Is it possible that the LCC after Salvation Lutheran Church in Harrisville, MO, stands for limited liability company? Odd if true.
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