How do Christians view Lutherans?

Question

I have been Lutheran my entire life and most of the people I know are Lutheran. I know how I think of the Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, e.t.c. But how do the other mainline denominations think of Lutherans?

Answer 1

Well, christians probably think your the same as everyone else that's not christian. An evil satanic worshiper who should be stayed away from.

Answer 2

Live and let live.

Answer 3

I'm a Catholic and my dad's a Luteran. I love him, and I don't discriminate because someone is Lutheran. Now, I don't believe in everything your religion teaches, but you don't agree with all Catholic Doctrine. We can still coexist happily.

Answer 4

I don't care what religion ppl are but don't like it if ppl try to talk you into their religion

Answer 5

When I think of Lutherans I think of A Prairie Home Companion, Minnesota, and church potluck hot dishes.

Answer 6

Good question. Have a star.

Answer 7

Rev, I have met Lutherans that I feel are saved, that are walking the walk . And I have met Lutherans who don't have the slightest idea who Jesus Christ is. One Lutheran I met and witnessed to  at my bank , seems to be so. When I asked him if he was a Christian, he said, "no I'm a Lutheran" and then  described himself as "you know, we are just like the Catholics" Took me back a step. I know Lutherans from the  Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church that I know to be spirit filled obedient Christians . Unfortunately most Lutherans including the Missouri Synod  are   "replacement theology" meaning they think the church has replaced Israel as recipients of all God's promises made to the Jews. This is not true. Luther's antisemitism still lingers in the Lutheran church. How Luther could be so right about justification by faith and so wrong about God's chosen people the Jews is beyond me. I am not a mainline denomination. I was raised first Anabaptist , then  later a Presbyterian (PCUSA replacement theology) and now I go to a non denominational Bible church.  May the Lord bless you in his truth. Captain Arlo    

Answer 8

as christians.  I go to a Congregational  church  but we have a lutheran pastor  comes  to our bible study  helps  with the children's  club  and has  taken a service  in our  church.  her grandson  used to go to a school held in the church hall.

Answer 9

Well your founder, Martin Luther, wrote in his codex's about his doubts of an eternal place of perdition.  Namely h**l?  Funny, in ya'lls love and wisdom, ya'll have put it back in place, and teach it to your young sinning children?  All said, ya'll ain't any worse than any other Christian.  Ain't saying much, however?  

Answer 10

to be honest this is the first time i heard of a "lutheran"

Answer 11

I've grown up in the opposite situation as Wolfeblayde - I'm a Lutheran grown up surrounded by Catholics LOL.  While I can't speak for them, I'll tell you that while I've grown up around Catholics, I have been treated with nothing but respect by them.  They have treated me as a fellow sister in Christ, which means a lot to me.  The majority of my close friends are Catholic and they have yet to criticize my beliefs - to them, I'm a Christian who just doesn't go to the church where most everybody in town does.

One of my best friends is a Bible Christian, and she and her congregation have also treated me and my faith with nothing but respect, and have always regarded me as a fellow sister in Christ.  I've gone to several youth outings with her since the youth program at my home church is lacking, and no one has tried to convert me or anything.  They asked what my home church was and I said, "It's the Lutheran church down the street," and they seemed pleased that I had a home church.  They've treated me as a fellow Christian, and they've never told me I wasn't a true Christian, never criticized my choice of church.

So while I can't speak for what they all really think, I can tell you that as a Lutheran, my experience with people from other denominations is that I've been treated with nothing but love and respect.

Peace!

Answer 12

I view them as my favorite Christian group.  I was humbled at a service for my birth whatever she was to me.  I loved how it was a free service, and that the people cared.  Since I have began attending Sunday school at a local Lutheran church, I have found them less judgemental than fundamentalist churches.

I was raised Baptist, and The Church of the Nazarene, and The World Wide Church of God.  The last church was ok.  The first two I did not care for.  It was a matter of if you are not baptised in their particular church, you are going to h**l.

The Lutheran church asked me if I was baptised.  I said I was, and they said that I didn't need to be baptised again.  I found that refreshing.  I like a humble church, and not one that is intolerant, and goes off on tangents like a kids program being evil.    

Answer 13

I grew up surrounded bu Lutheran neighbors -- German Lutheran, at that. Let me tell you what, German Lutherans know how to throw a christening, a wedding, or a wake. Some of my fondest memories (to say nothing of major hangovers) are associated with one of those three events.

In all seriousness, I'm now a Catholic convert, and I regard Lutherans as fellow Christians on the journey Home to God. We both love the Father and have put our trust in the atoning death of Christ for our salvation. When you come right down to it, isn't everything else just a matter of details?

Answer 14

Optically

Answer 15

I grew in in a community (northern Michigan) that was 100% Lutheran and Catholic.

Each side has its good points.

God love you!

Answer 16

I'm Baptist.I can't speak for all Baptists,but the ones that

are true Baptists would view other denominations as unscriptual.Not carrying out the great commision of

our Lord stated in Matthew 28:18,19,20.

Answer 17

Most Christians think of Lutherans, if they think of them at all, as fellow Christians who have come out of the church in Rome but who have not quite gotten all of the church in Rome out of their teachings and beliefs.