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To: Taliesan

The author of the article is a deacon in the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.


15 posted on 12/16/2005 1:12:31 PM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Thorin
No kidding. He seems to be wholly unaware of Protestant views on the presence of Christ in the Body.

I stand corrected; Lutheran, who should know better, tells other denominations what they believe.

16 posted on 12/16/2005 1:43:51 PM PST by Taliesan (The power of the State to do good is the power of the State to do evil.)
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To: Thorin; Taliesan; Mr. Lucky; TonyRo76; Cletus.D.Yokel

Aaron D. Wolf—Associate Editor of Chronicles and
Webmaster; M.A. in Christian Thought and Church
History from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

From what I know of him, Aaron Wolf is a sharp guy, and a good guy. He knows his stuff. I don't think that he is a "deacon" in the sense of a full-time church worker. I know and trust Wolf's pastor and the congregation he belongs to. I've met Wolf and heard him speak in person.

Just from glancing at a couple of comments here, I think some of the confusion might be over the use of the word, "Evangelical." It really has a couple of uses. More common today is to use it to refer to "American Evangelicals," who are not sacramental in the way that Lutherans are. The older and more historic use of "Evangelical," though, is in reference precisely to Lutherans, who were called Evangelisch early on in the Reformation, because of their emphasis on the Gospel..

26 posted on 12/16/2005 8:44:01 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (LCMS pastor)
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