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Teresa Chow and Hermon Cage talk about the importance of making the ELCA multicultural.
1 posted on 08/09/2007 4:53:54 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: lightman

ELCA ping.


2 posted on 08/09/2007 4:55:28 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (LCMS)
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“Ahead of the growth initiatives, ELCA is first pointing Lutherans back to the Bible.

Tackling the issue of biblical literacy, the churchwide assembly adopted a five-year initiative, titled “Book of Faith: Lutherans Read the Bible,” to boost Scripture reading and studying throughout the denomination.

Hanson called on the church to become one that shows “growing evidence that [its] members are becoming fluent in the first language of our faith, the language of Scripture,” he said Wednesday, according to the ELCA News Service.”

*And how do they square this with pushing homosexuality?*


6 posted on 08/10/2007 12:56:47 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: SmithL

>> “God’s Work. Our Hands.” <<

Speechless.


9 posted on 08/10/2007 9:52:06 AM PDT by dangus
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