In the special December issue of the Journal of Lutheran Mission, church leaders from around the world offer insights from a recent International Lutheran Council meeting, discussing how Lutherans are poised to take the Reformation into the world.

Table of Contents

• From the President: A Significant Meeting for World Lutheranism — by Matthew C. Harrison
• Preface — by Robert Bugbee
• Introduction — by Albert B. Collver III
• Sermon for International Lutheran Council — by Hans-Jörg Voigt
• Augsburg Confession in the 21st Century: Confessing the Faith Once for All Delivered to the Saints — by Alexey Streltsov
• Chairman of the International Lutheran Council Report — by Hans-Jörg Voigt
• Statement of the International Lutheran Council on the Document “From Conflict to Communion:” Lutheran—Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation 2017
• Sermon on St. Michael and All Angels — by Albert B. Collver III
• Our Confession in Augustana IV–VI — by Sergio Adrián Fritzler
• Devotion on Matthew 6:24–34 — by Lawrence R. Rast, Jr.
• Augustana VII: The Church and Fellowship — by Albert B. Collver III
• Bringing the Reformation to the World: The Means of Grace (Augsburg Confession, Articles 9-10) — by Hans-Jörg Voigt
• Faith, Ethnicity and Social Issues in the Thoughts and Work of Pastor Vladislav Santarius — by Martin Piętak
• Book Review and Commentary — Mission Shaped by Promise: Lutheran Missiology Confronts the
  Challenge of Religious Pluralism by Jukka A. Kääriäinen — by John T. Pless
• Book Review and Commentary — Called to Witness: Doing Missional Theology by Darrell L. Guder — by John T. Pless
• Book Review and Commentary — Gnostic America: A Reading of Contemporary American Culture & Religion according to Christianity’s Oldest Heresy by Peter M. Burfeind — by Carl Rockrohr
• Book Review and Commentary — Church Order for Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel: How Doctrine, Ceremonies, and Other Church-Related Matters Shall (By God’s Grace) Be Conducted Henceforth by Martin Chemnitz and Jacob Andreae — by Albert B. Collver III