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The doctrinal differences are pretty significant.
1)Lutherans belief in justification by faith alone, the Orthodox believe that humans have to co-operate with God through works.
2) Western Christians (including Lutherans) hold that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, in Orthodox theology the spirit is from the Father alone.
3) Orthodox believers venerate icons, which would generally be very alien to Lutheran thought.
4) Lutherans have two sacraments, Orthodox churches have seven.
5) The Orthodox approach to church structure through priests, monks, patriarchs etc. is very distinct from the Lutheran conception.
You will find quite a lot of similarities between Lutheran, Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox church services because they all come from the same root. Luther in particular wanted to conserve as much of the ancient church as possible in his liturgy.
1)Lutherans belief in justification by faith alone, the Orthodox believe that humans have to co-operate with God through works.
2) Western Christians (including Lutherans) hold that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, in Orthodox theology the spirit is from the Father alone.
3) Orthodox believers venerate icons, which would generally be very alien to Lutheran thought.
4) Lutherans have two sacraments, Orthodox churches have seven.
5) The Orthodox approach to church structure through priests, monks, patriarchs etc. is very distinct from the Lutheran conception.
You will find quite a lot of similarities between Lutheran, Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox church services because they all come from the same root. Luther in particular wanted to conserve as much of the ancient church as possible in his liturgy.