[2] The council's chairman is Bishop Juhana Pohjola of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland.

The organization has not accepted the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, an agreement reached by the Catholic Church's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) and the Lutheran World Federation, in 1999.

Resolutions passed during this period described the ILC as a partnership, forum, or "group of independent Lutheran churches".

[7] At the Fifteenth Conference in Antigua, Guatemala, the group decided on creating a more formal structure as an association of churches and adopted a set of Guiding Principles that would serve as a constitution and theological point of reference.

[2] At the 2022 World Conference meeting, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia was accepted as a full member.

At the 23rd conference, the association unanimously adopted the statement "Same-Gender Relationships and the Church", which defined the practice of homosexuality as a sin.