一九七七年,美國威斯康辛州路德會重組香港的宣教工作,重新成立一個本地教會組織,命名為南亞路德會(South Asian Lutheran Evangelical Mission,簡稱SALEM),由施維德牧師出任主席。「南亞路德會」原稱「東南亞路德會」(East South Asian Evangelical Lutheran Mission, ESAELM),後來把「東」字拿走,只剩下「南亞」,然後再將Evangelical Lutheran 改為Lutheran Evangelical。改變後,英文稱為South Asian Lutheran Evangelical Mission,簡稱為SALEM,而SALEM這也是希伯來文「平安」的英文寫法。[3]
和其他路德宗教會一樣,南亞路德會根據聖經《福音書》及《哥林多前書》的教導,相信耶穌基督真正臨到聖餐當中(Real Presence),意思是指基督真真正正在「(沒有改變的)餅與酒之內,與餅和酒同在,在餅和酒之下」(In, With and Under the bread and wine), [61][62] 是一種「聖禮的聯合」(英語:Sacramental Union)。 [63][64][65] 凡參與聖餐的人在領受餅和酒時,都同時領受主的真身體及真寶血,所以路德宗的聖餐觀也稱為「同領說」:
Keller,Brian R.,Believe it or not: You are forgiven through Christ! (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館),頁7,"The Greek verb for 'justified' means that a judge declares people 'not guilty' of all charges. They are in a constant state of being declared not guilty,'freely by his grace.'"
Stavropoulos, Christophoros, Partakers of the Divine Nature, in Eastern Orthodox Theology: A Contemporary Reader, 頁188, "The work of our theosis, our union with God, is not transmitted to us in some mechanical fashion. Our weakened human nature will not be transformed magically. The change will happen in conjunction with our own efforts. It will be realized with the cooperation of man and God. This subjective aspect of our union provides the way of theosis which we must follow.", quoted from WELS Topical Q&A: Religion - Orthodox
WELS Topical Q&A: The Greek Orthodox Church (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館), "Greek Orthodox Church teaching regarding salvation is a mixture of faith and morality."
《天主教教理》(1992)第2068條:「眾人因信德、聖洗及遵守誡命而得救」(all men may attain salvation through faith, Baptism and the observance of the Commandments.)」;第2010條:「在聖神和愛德的推動之下,我們才能為我們自己並為他人賺得為成聖、為增加恩寵和愛德,一如為得到永生有用的恩寵。」(Moved by the Holy Spirit and by charity, we can then merit for ourselves and for others the graces needed for our sanctification, for the increase of grace and charity, and for the attainment of eternal life.)」;第2027條:「我們能為自己和為別人賺得一切有用的恩寵,為到達永生,和得到必須的世物。」(we can merit for ourselves and for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life, as well as necessary temporal goods.)」;第2036條:「訓導的權威也伸展到自然律的特殊規範,因為造物主要求遵守的這些規範,為得救是必要的。」(The authority of the Magisterium extends also to the specific precepts of the natural law, because their observance, demanded by the Creator, is necessary for salvation.)
WELS Topical Q&A: Salvation By Works Questioned, "The Catechism of the Catholic Church is clear in stating that we merit salvation in part by our works. Read paragraphs 1987 through 2029, note especially 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2019, 2027."
WELS Topical Q&A: Sola Scriptura, "many passages...state sola scriptura, such as Revelation 22:18-19. If we cannot add anything to the words of Scripture and we cannot take anything away from them, that is Scripture alone."
《協同信條》 (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館) (1577) "[T]he Gospel is properly a doctrine which teaches what man should believe, that he may obtain forgiveness of sins with God, namely, that the Son of God, our Lord Christ, has taken upon Himself and borne the curse of the Law, has expiated and paid for all our sins, through whom alone we again enter into favor with God, obtain forgiveness of sins by faith, are delivered from death and all the punishments of sins, and eternally saved. For everything that comforts, that offers the favor and grace of God to transgressors of the Law, is, and is properly called, the Gospel, a good and joyful message that God will not punish sins, but forgive them for Christ's sake." (主文所用為香港路德會文字部《協同書》中文譯本)
Statement on the Lord's Supper (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館), Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, "we need to study Christ's words of institution in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and in 1 Corinthians, as well as St. Paul's additional statements about the Lord's Supper in 1 Corinthians 11 and 10. On that basis we can establish the following concerning the essence of the usus of the Lord's Supper (consecration, distribution, reception): 1. The real and substantial presence of Christ's body and blood during the usus. 2. The sacramental union of bread and wine and of Christ's body and blood during the usus..."
WELS Topical Q&A: Real Presence, "We reject transubstantiation because the Bible teaches that the bread and the wine are still present in the Lord's Supper (1 Corinthians 10:16, 1 Corinthians 11:27-28). We do not worship the elements because Jesus commands us to eat and to drink the bread and the wine. He does not command us to worship them."
WELS Topical Q&A: Real Presence - Why not Transubtantiation?, "In the matter under discussion, the words of Jesus Christ are unmistakably clear: What is distributed and received in the Lord's Supper is his true body and blood. The words of the Apostle Paul are also unmistakably clear: The elements of bread and wine remain and are also distributed and received in the Lord's Supper. We embrace both truths."
Luther, Martin (1537), Smalcald Articles (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館), Part III, Article VI. Of the Sacrament of the Altar, stating: "As regards transubstantiation, we care nothing about the sophistical subtlety by which they teach that bread and wine leave or lose their own natural substance, and that there remain only the appearance and color of bread, and not true bread. For it is in perfect agreement with Holy Scriptures that there is, and remains, bread, as Paul himself calls it, 1 Cor. 10:16 (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館): The bread which we break. And 1 Cor. 11:28 (頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館): Let him so eat of that bread."
Real Presence Communion – Consubstantiation?. WELS Topical Q&A. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. [26 Jan 2015]. (原始內容存檔於2008-01-02). Although some Lutherans have used the term 'consbstantiation' [sic] and it might possibly be understood correctly (e.g., the bread & wine, body & blood coexist with each other in the Lord's Supper), most Lutherans reject the term because of the false connotation it contains...either that the body and blood, bread and wine come together to form one substance in the Lord’s Supper or that the body and blood are present in a natural manner like the bread and the wine. Lutherans believe that the bread and the wine are present in a natural manner in the Lord’s Supper and Christ’s true body and blood are present in an illocal, supernatural manner.
Lectures on the Augsburg Confession. Theological Seminary of the United Lutheran Church in America (Lutheran Publication Society). 1888: 350 [13 June 2014]. (原始內容存檔於2021-03-11). But in neither sense can that monstrous doctrine of Consubstantiation be attributed to our church, since Lutherans do not believe either in that local conjunction of two bodies, nor in any commingling of bread and of Christ's body, of wine and of his blood.