[piasa]

The Lutheran World Federation is so whacked out the mainline traditional Lutheran church in the US, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, does not belong to it. The Wisconsin Synod doesn't either, I believe.

The LCMS doesn't belong to the world Council of Churches either. My pastor referred to it as a communist front group, not a council of churches.

[livius]

Thanks for the explanation.

[the infidel]

The following US Lutheran bodies are not members or supporters of LWF:

Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Evangelical Lutheran Synod (aka, "The Norwegians")

There are also smaller splinter synods like Church of the Lutheran Confession and Lutheran Conference of Confessional Fellowship who think LCMS, WELS, and ELS are liberal. CLC, LCCF, and others do not participate in any "unionism" with other bodies -- especially as liberal as LWF.

I believe ELCA is the only significant (size-wise) American body participating in LWF.