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"Can I Trust This Guy?": Evaluating the Potential for Pastoral Trust-Building in Evangelistic Outreach
(2024)
How can a pastor demonstrate that he can be trusted? Today’s world is one in which the concept of interpersonal trust has drastically eroded. Societally, this is a serious issue. For the church, it could prove devastating. ...
Academia Cristo and TELL English: Overcoming Challenges with these Mission Efforts
(2024)
Academia Cristo is the multi-faceted effort of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
(WELS) Latin America mission team to spread the gospel and plant churches in the Spanish speaking
world. TELL English is a Multi-Language ...
The Garden Temple: Analyzation and Implications of the Relationship between Eden and the Tabernacle/Temple
(2024)
The garden of Eden was God’s non-architectural temple of creation. Adam was the first priest. The future blueprints of the tabernacle and temple which God directed to be built were concessions that allowed humans to remain ...
Examination Variability: One size Does Not Fit All
(2024)
Examination before confirmation has been practiced since the early centuries of Christian
Church history. Even with a practice this longstanding, the Lutheran Church does not have a
uniform methodology or purpose for ...
Here Be Dragons: Fantasy, Escapism, and a Christian Response
(2024)
Fantasy may be criticized for its lack of practicality or its denial of reality. However, beauty and creativity are parts of creation to be used and enjoyed by mankind before, and fantasy is a valid expression of that ...
The “Mumbojumbo” of the Rite of Confirmation
(2024)
This thesis aims to define the rite of confirmation used in the Wisconsin Synod.
Confirmation is a mixed bag. Throughout history, no one knows what to do with the rite. Many
congregational traditions make it almost ...
Something New Under the Sun? A Lutheran Response to Cancel-Culture
(2024)
In recent years, there has been a new phenomenon that has been circling in society called, Cancel
Culture. What is it? Is it something that is new or has it been seen before? Is this a legitimate or
illegitimate phenomenon? ...
Do This in Rememberance For Those Who Do Not Remember: A Study of the Distribution of the Lord's Supper to Lutherans with Dementia
(2024)
For members of the Lutheran church, participation in the Lord’s Supper is the pinnacle of
fellowship between communicant, God, and fellow believers. Every time the body and blood of
Christ are distributed from Lutheran ...
Modern-Day Moses Mentality: Applying Moses' Call and Responses to God and God's Call to Modern People and their Concerns, Desires and Motivations for Pastoral Ministry and other Careers
(2024)
This paper was written with two main goals. The first goal is to find ways to encourage our
young students who are thinking about ministry, and even those who are not, in an efficient way
that spotlights God’s responses ...
The Voice of our Fathers on the Controversy of the Ministry: The Writings of Abraham Calov and Johann Andreas Quenstedt
(2024)
The doctrine of the public ministry has long been an area of controversy between the
confessional Lutheran churches of America. Differences between theologians of the Missouri
Synod and the Wisconsin Synod came to light ...