To Address Concerns with Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church

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5-03 
To Address Concerns with  
Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church 
WHEREAS, The Holy Scriptures enjoin us to maintain the unity 
of the faith in the bond of peace (Eph. 4:3, 13); and 
WHEREAS, The Lutheran Confessions state : “The church is the 
assembly of the saints in which the gospel is taught purely and the 
sacraments are administered rightly. And it is enough for the true 
unity of the church to agree concerning the teaching of the gospel 
and the administration of the sacr aments. It is not necessary that 
human traditions, rites or ceremonies instituted by human beings be 
alike everywhere” (AC VII 1–3, Kolb/Wengert); and 
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HEREAS, “Apostolicity” in the Church is found not in a flesh-
and-blood lineage of men, but rather, in the apostolicity of doctrine,