The Lutheran faithful is not a Church because it does not have Apostolic Secession, Holy Orders, Eucharist, Holocaust (Holy Sacrifice of Mass) and so please stop identifying it as a Church for such use tends to confuse (at best) and corrupt (most likely) the intellects of the faithful.
We do not identify seahorses as being part of the horse family/Equus Genus and so, please, stop labelling the Lutheran faithful a Church.
Seahorses are a genus of fish belonging to the fish family, Syngnathidae, while Lutherans are a genus of christians born into a false religion which also includes other heretics who were also born into false religions.
We have been seduced by Ecumenism (The Universal Solvent of Tradition) to think only of what unites us while forgetting to remember the crucial truths that divide us.
If we were to extend this praxis to other areas of life, we'd soon see of how little value such a praxis is.
Fact; A man's lung is comprised of the virtually the same amount of water as is a pear.
Ecumenism among the species:
My, God!!! My lung has the same amount of water as a Pear!!!! Do you know what that means? In Creation there is virtually no difference between a lung and a pear. O, O, and get this!! I have two lungs. A Pair of lungs. A Pair. O, my God...Can't you see? A Pear is a pair is a Pear!!!
That means that Jesus could have been born a pear and still have redeemed us and it would have even made more sense for He saved us by dying on a tree and where do pears grow? That's right. And we haven't even gotten to the tree in Paradise....