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Cross Lutheran Church

📍1246 East Graham Street, WI ✝evangelical_lutheran
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Tension detected

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

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<!DOCTYPE html> About Us &#8211; Cross Lutheran Church Skip to content Cross Lutheran Church Menu About Us CYF Get Involved Give REC Home about us Focused on reaching up, out and forward. Our Mission We exist to rejoice and praise God by creating disciples of Jesus Christ in the surrounding areas and around the globe. What to Expect We are a "come as you are" congregation of Jesus-followers who love God and each other. Our goal is to make those that enter Cross Lutheran feel as welcome as you would when you enter the home of your family or best friend. Constitution and By
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<!DOCTYPE html> REC &#8211; Cross Lutheran Church Skip to content Cross Lutheran Church Menu About Us CYF Get Involved Give REC Home REC Our Mission Cross Lutheran’s REC (Recovery and Evangelism Committee) is moved to walk by faith with those afflicted by addiction and mental health concern by being a community resource where all are welcome. "I decided to take a friend up on the offer to come to Cross&#8230;there had been something missing&#8230;faith. I’ve been impressed with being part of this church-welcoming attitude, different services, perspective, culture-compared to
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About Us &#8211; Cross Lutheran Church Skip to content Cross Lutheran Church Menu About Us CYF Get Involved Give REC Home about us Focused on reaching up, out and forward. Our Mission We exist to rejoice and praise God by creating disciples of Jesus Christ in the surrounding areas and around the globe. What to Expect We are a &#8220;come as you are&#8221; congregation of Jesus-followers who love God and each other. Our goal is to make those that enter Cross Lutheran feel as welcome as you would when you enter the home of your family or best friend. Constitution and Bylaws Building Use Requests
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REC &#8211; Cross Lutheran Church Skip to content Cross Lutheran Church Menu About Us CYF Get Involved Give REC Home REC Our Mission Cross Lutheran&#8217;s REC (Recovery and Evangelism Committee) is moved to walk by faith with those afflicted by addiction and mental health concern by being a community resource where all are welcome. &#8220;I decided to take a friend up on the offer to come to Cross&#8230;there had been something missing&#8230;faith. I&#8217;ve been impressed with being part of this church-welcoming attitude, different services, perspective, culture-compared to everything I had
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