Walther Article

A Christian's Duty To Join an Orthodox Local Church

Walther's long-form pastoral argument that Christians should not remain detached observers, but should join and support an orthodox local congregation where the Means of Grace are rightly administered.

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Read the full article here with a quick-reference index and section navigation built around the foreword, prayer, and eight theses.

Source: published Google Doc. The source identifies this text as from the LCR publication The Faithful Word, Fall/Winter 1998, translated by Prof. K. K. Miller.

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