The Christian church is the community
of brethren in which Jesus Christ
presently works in the word and
sacraments through the Holy Spirit.
With her faith as well as her
obedience, with her message as
well as her ordinances, she has to
witness in the midst of a world of
sin as the church of forgiven sinners
that she is His alone, that she lives
and wishes to live only by His
comfort and His counsel in
expectation of his appearance.
We repudiate the false teaching
that the church can turn
over the form of her message and ordinances
at will or according to some
dominant ideological
and political convictions.
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