Its efforts were focused on working for reform of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
It was influenced by and has connections to WordAlone, a coalition of groups that focused on responding to and opposing changes in church polity, and statements and teachings on marriage and human sexuality.
[1] Following decisions by the ELCA Churchwide Assembly in August 2009 to adopt a social statement on human sexuality that legitimize homosexual relationships and to allow pastors to be in committed same-sex relationships, Lutheran CORE changed its name and focus to Lutheran Coalition for Renewal.
The North American Lutheran Church and Lutheran CORE, through their Joint Commission an Theology and Doctrine, approved an official anti-abortion stance in the document "The Lord Is with You" – A Word of Counsel to the Church – The Sanctity of Nascent Life", on December 14, 2012.
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