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Nain Evangelical Lutheran Church

📍1665 South 57th Street, West Allis, WI ✝evangelical_lutheran
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3 stances that depart from the denomination

The congregation's own words appear to differ from what its denomination's confession binds. This is an AI reading of the church's public text and may be inaccurate — the quotes below show what it's based on.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denies. This congregation affirms.
"rejects — Luther rejected transubstantiation while affirming real presence. The bread remains bread; Christ's body is present "in, with, and under" the bread."
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denies. This congregation affirms.
"rejects — Luther initially accepted it but later Lutheranism rejected it as unscriptural. Mary is honored but not exempted from the human condition."
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America denies. This congregation affirms.
"rejects — Neither affirmed nor found in Scripture. Lutheranism teaches nothing about Mary's fate after death beyond what Scripture reveals."
Inherited from denomination

What Evangelical Lutheran Church in America teaches

Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.

Confessional standard: Augsburg Confession

Affirms
Denies
  • Assumption of Maryweak
    Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
  • Immaculate Conceptionstandard
    Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
  • Marriage as one man and one womanweak
    PC(USA) 2015; ELCA 2009; TEC 2015; UMC 2024. Same-sex marriage authorized in polity.
  • Transubstantiationstandard
    Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
Wrestles with
  • Apostolic Successionweak
    Lutheran and Methodist bodies retain 'succession of doctrine' language without the tactile chain.
  • Believer's Baptismweak
    Paedobaptist bodies practice adult baptism on credible profession where infant baptism was omitted, but do not consider it normative.
  • Pacifism vs. just-warweak
    Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
  • Perpetual Virginity of Maryweak
    Historically held by Luther, Calvin, Zwingli; retained as pious opinion (not binding) by confessional Lutherans and traditional Anglicans.
  • Theotokosweak
    Confessionally valid title (Ephesus is a received council) but not used devotionally; retained in liturgy where liturgy is retained.
In their own words

Statements

statement_of_faith
<!DOCTYPE html> Our Beliefs :: Nain Ev. Lutheran Church Nain Ev. Lutheran Church https://www.nainlutheran.org/ Home Our Congregation Our Congregation Our Pastor Our Beliefs Our History Worship Worship Worship Resources Daily Devotions Season after Pentecost 2026 Education Adult Education Youth Education Nain Lectures Resources Nain News Nain Calendar Nain Groups Related Links Contact Us Online Giving Our Beliefs Search this website Home Our Congregation Our Beliefs Our Beliefs "These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and t
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<!DOCTYPE html> Our Congregation :: Nain Ev. Lutheran Church Nain Ev. Lutheran Church https://www.nainlutheran.org/ Home Our Congregation Our Congregation Our Pastor Our Beliefs Our History Worship Worship Worship Resources Daily Devotions Season after Pentecost 2026 Education Adult Education Youth Education Nain Lectures Resources Nain News Nain Calendar Nain Groups Related Links Contact Us Online Giving Our Congregation Search this website Home Our Congregation Our Congregation "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the F
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Our Beliefs :: Nain Ev. Lutheran Church --> Nain Ev. Lutheran Church https://www.nainlutheran.org/ Home Our Congregation Our Congregation Our Pastor Our Beliefs Our History Worship Worship Worship Resources Daily Devotions Season after Pentecost 2026 Education Adult Education Youth Education Nain Lectures Resources Nain News Nain Calendar Nain Groups Related Links Contact Us Online Giving Our Beliefs Search this website Home Our Congregation Our Beliefs Our Beliefs "These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his n
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Our Congregation :: Nain Ev. Lutheran Church --> Nain Ev. Lutheran Church https://www.nainlutheran.org/ Home Our Congregation Our Congregation Our Pastor Our Beliefs Our History Worship Worship Worship Resources Daily Devotions Season after Pentecost 2026 Education Adult Education Youth Education Nain Lectures Resources Nain News Nain Calendar Nain Groups Related Links Contact Us Online Giving Our Congregation Search this website Home Our Congregation Our Congregation "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
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