Overjoyed - They Reject the Chief Article of Christianity - And You Re-Elect Them!"This article concerning justification by faith (as the Apology says) is the chief article in the entire Christian doctrine, without which no poor conscience can have any firm consolation, or can truly know the riches of the grace of Christ, as Dr. Luther also has written: If this only article remains pure on the battlefield, the Christian Church also remains pure..."BoC, FC, SD, III, 6

KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

A Report on the Meetings of ELS, LCMS, and WELS Leaders 2012–2015

https://www.lcms.org/Document.fdoc?src=lcm&id=3864

"Last but certainly not least, there was special joy to understand that we all hold to objective justification—that God declared the world righteous through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and that we all recognize it to be the urgent mission of the church to take this gospel to the entire world."

https://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-lcms-els-wels-and-elca-agree-on.html