ELCA 'Book of Faith' Initiative Gets its 'Opening' Resource
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Dr. Diane L. Jacobson likes the analogy, but she doesn't take credit for it. She heard "Opening the Book of Faith: Lutheran Insights for Bible Study" described as the GPS (global positioning system) of the "Book of Faith" initiative of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Jacobson, professor of Old Testament, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., is director of the ELCA initiative. She said Dr. Robert A. Bendiksen, retired professor of sociology and archaeology, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, called the new publication the GPS of the initiative during a recent "faith forum" in the ELCA La Crosse Area Synod.
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GJ - ELCA must be clawing its way out of the hole dug by the Lavender Mafia. When a denomination has lost its way completely, the worst thing possible is to bring up that long-forgotten norm of faith and treat it as a rabbit's foot.
The efficacious Word will harden the cynical leaders even more and drive the membership away to a place where the Scriptures are honored as the revealed Word of God.
At what point will the Missouri and WELS leaders refuse to participate in unionistic activities with ELCA?
Matthew 7:15-23 "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
