The Fellowship of Lutheran Congregations, FLC is a group of congregations that left the LCR in 1979 after a dispute concerning the proper procedure of excommunication.
In February 2006, five congregations and four pastors suspended church-fellowship with the rest of the LCR when, in the wake of a disagreement regarding the doctrine of the ministry, an LCR congregation was dissolved through legal action by certain members, most of whom were female, who disagreed with their pastor.