Bente prepared this paper in the year following the LCMS diamond jubilee. After describing how disunity and a disloyal spirit had made a way into their midst, he goes on to recommend a two-fold approach toward reestablishing ...

C.F.W. Walther explores how a church body can be confessional especially in his context with issues with the State Church and other church bodies who, hypocritically, said they were confessional.