Catechesis has left a new comment on your post "The Secret Revealed - Youth Do Not Want Pop's Musi...":
If "the Mass is retained among us, and celebrated with the highest reverence"..., you might be a Lutheran.
If "Nearly all the usual ceremonies are also preserved...."..., you might be a Lutheran.
If your parishioners "are also advised concerning the dignity and use of the Sacrament, how great consolation it brings anxious consciences, that they may learn to believe God, and to expect and ask of Him all that is good,"..., you might be a Lutheran.
If "public ceremonies, for the most part like those hitherto in use, are retained"..., you might be a Lutheran.
If you "quia" subscribe to the Augsburg Confession Article XXIV quoted above in not only doctrine, but also practice, then you are a Lutheran.
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GJ - The quia subscription is meaningless today. WELS has repudiated it in print, while Missouri has repudiated it in practice. Quia's do not run off to Fuller to figure out how to make the Gospel effective. They do not hide the name Lutheran. They do not hide the Sacraments and even the signs of the Sacraments (altar and font) in church.
I suggest a chia subscription as the best term to use for the current situation.
