We Lutherans are confessional— not the prie-dieu or Rosary kind, the subscribing kind… We subscribe to (that is, accept) the 10 documents known together as the Book of Concord, our Confessions of the doctrines of Scripture (we believe and teach that Holy Scripture alone is to be regarded as the sole rule and norm by which absolutely all doctrines and teachers are to be judged). Our Confessions don’t make us Christian, our faith in Christ Jesus does; however, our Confessions definitely retain the flavor of the Protestant Reformation and they alone are what makes us Lutheran. In this space two weeks ...