Congratulations on a first issue in the mail. No quibble about content, though one must wonder about depth when writers are so limited by space consideration. Nevertheless, the issue did what I take it was intended to do, open the gates. The Editorial Board’s article says “Each issue will focus on a central topic…” but […]

(This article is excerpted and adapted by Let’s Talk with the permission of the author. It is taken from “Evangelism with the Native American Community,” Multicultural Mission Institute, Lawrence, KS, 1990.) Evangelism is a crucial issue, not only for the Native American community, but for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as a whole. As […]

During the question and answer period of a recent congregational meeting which was called for the purpose of determining the will of the membership regarding fund raising for a church building expansion project, one member voiced concern over some aspects of the design proposal. The member said, among other things, that the room designated as […]

Worship and evangelism is a broad subject. The entire service or worship of the people is the Church active in society, but I have chosen here to reflect upon our formal congregate worship. Recently I listened to Murray Haar, who teaches religion at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He reminded me that Lutherans […]

Evangelism and worship belong together in the life of the Church. To keep them together Christians should freely use whatever forms will communicate the gospel effectively for the local cultural context. Evangelization is clearly the one mission that the Church of Jesus Christ has all to its own. There is no other organization on the […]

(This article is excerpted and adapted by Let’s Talk with the permission of the author. The material is from two presentations made at the June, 1995 Synod Assembly of the ELCA Southwestern Washington Synod.) Centering Worship for the Sake of the Gospel Clement of Alexandria, writing a few years before II and III John were […]