Our History...
- Already during the time of the Apostles, false teachers arose even from within congregations of
Christians to introduce errors contrary to the doctrines of Holy Scripture. Where these were not
aggressively combated and defeated, where they were tolerated and permitted to gain a firm
foothold in the early church, fertile ground was created which nurtured the growing Papacy and
allowed the pure teachings of God’s Word to be obscured, supplemented with the commandments
of men, and even rejected altogether. By God’s grace, however, Dr. Martin Luther in the Reformation
of the 16th Century brought outward Christendom back to the teachings of the Bible. Nevertheless,
since Luther’s time, most of the church bodies that bear his name have gradually forsaken the truth of
God’s Word and become heterodox. Refusing to exercise doctrinal discipline in their midst, they
have become so tolerant of false doctrine and practice that every effort at reformation is either quietly
ignored or openly rejected. Only by God’s grace do the churches of our precious fellowship, though
small in numbers, stand fast in purity of doctrine and practice —not just in a “conservative” or
“confessional” mode but in true orthodoxy— on the basis of His Word alone. (John 8:31-32;
Ephesians 2:20; I Corinthians 1:10; Jeremiah 23:28; Romans 16:17; etc.)
