Compass International

How does WELS feel about Compass International? Differences, similarities? Thanks.

The organization describes itself as “an evangelical…non-denominational ministry.” That brief description is enough to alert people of doctrinal concerns.

Their website explains that the organization teaches the rapture, a literal seven-year period of tribulation, a literal 1,000-year reign of Jesus in Jerusalem and “once saved, always saved.” There was no mention of the sacraments. Being a non-denominational ministry, one would expect them to speak of “ordinances” instead of sacraments. They state: “We always defend what we write from a dispensational, pre-tribulational, and pre-millennial position.”

Romans 16:17 applies to this organization.