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Association of Yours free! Lutheran Congregations is the Fourth big Lutheran church body in the United States. A AFLC includes congregations within Twenty-seven different states also when Four Canadian provinces. A AFLC is non an incorporated synod, but the yours free! association. For each one local congregation occurs as separate corporation.
A AFLC was formed by Forty congregations around 1962. A churches that formed a AFLC were members of the Lutheran Free Church who did not wish to join a American Lutheran Church. A AFLC has additional than 230 congregations presently. A AFLC headquarters come at 3110 East Medicine Flow of any stream Blvd Plymouth, Minnesota 55441 along with a Association Free Lutheran Bible School and Seminary.
5 main reasons for the formation of the AFLC:
Recognizes a Bible as the elysian & unerring authority all told matters of faith & life.
Recognizes that a teaching & preaching of God's Word is a independent project of the Church, to exist as conducted within such how else that the saints come built higher & nonbeliever view their want for salvation.
Believes that a congregation is a best form of a Kingdom of God olympian games, using there are no authority above it however the Word & the Spirit of God;
Believes that Christian unity is the spiritual construct, non a human-synthetic organization like the World Council of Churches or the National Council of Churches .
Believes that Christians are called to exist when the salt & weak, separated from either the ways of the world, & that this difference is to become reflected in the life of the congregation too as in the institutions of the church person.
A AFLC has 5 corporations that come sponsored per AFLC to direct their most common tries. A Coordinating Committee, a Schools Corporation, a Missions Corporation, a AFLC Foundation & a Association Retreat Center (ARC), placed touching Osceola, Wisconsin.
There are ii auxiliary corporations in the AFLC. A Women's Missionary Federation (WMF) & Free streaming Lutheran Youth (FLY), at one time a Luther League Federation.
A official publication of the AFLC is The Lutheran Ambassador, by owning dozen issues by the month devoted to Bible centered articles & news of the churches.
Presidents of the AFLC
John P. Strand 1962 - 1978
Richard Snipstead 1978 - 1992
Robert L. Lee 1992 -
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