一九七七年,美國威斯康辛路德會重組香港嘅宣教工作,重新成立一個本地教會組織,命名為南亞路德會(英文:South Asian Lutheran Evangelical Mission ,簡稱SALEM),由施維德牧師出任主席。「南亞路德會」原叫「東南亞路德會」(英文:East South Asian Evangelical Lutheran Mission,簡稱ESAELM),後來將「東」字攞走,只剩低「南亞」,然後再將Evangelical Lutheran改為Lutheran Evangelical。改變後,英文叫South Asian Lutheran Evangelical Mission,簡稱為SALEM,而SALEM呢個亦係希伯來文「平安」嘅英文寫法。[3]
同其他信義宗教會一樣,南亞路德會根據聖經《福音書》同《哥林多前書》嘅教導,相信耶穌基督真正臨到聖餐當中(Real Presence),意思係指基督真真正正喺「(無改變嘅)餅同酒入面,連埋餅同酒同在,響餅同酒下面」(In, With and Under the bread and wine), [58][59] 係一種「聖禮的聯合(英文:Sacramental Union)」。 [60][61][62] 凡參與聖餐嘅人喺領受餅同酒時,都同時領受主嘅真身同真寶血,所以信義宗嘅聖餐觀亦叫「同領說」:
Keller,Brian R.,Believe it or not: You are forgiven through Christ!互聯網檔案館嘅歸檔,歸檔日期2016年10月3號,.,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.'"
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》互聯網檔案館嘅歸檔,歸檔日期2020年10月9號,. (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互聯網檔案館嘅歸檔,歸檔日期2020年9月24號,., 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互聯網檔案館嘅歸檔,歸檔日期2008年10月10號,., 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: The bread which we break. And 1 Cor. 11:28: Let him so eat of that bread."
"Real Presence Communion – Consubstantiation?". WELS Topical Q&A. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. 原著喺2008年1月2號歸檔. 喺2015年1月26號搵到. 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. p.350. 喺13 June 2014搵到. 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.