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Factors Related To The Life And Growth Of Adult Bible Classes In The Lutheran Church, Paul Pallmeyer

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

A serious concern of many Protestant churches today is their failure to enlist a large proportion of their adult members in group Bible study. One such church body is The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. As will presently be shown, this denomination has vigorously promoted adult Bible study over the last decade and a half, but there remains a continued resistance by the adult membership to participation in Bible classes.

The present project was designed.to uncover some factors which show a relationship to this resistance to group Bible study by members of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. A series of interviews with Bible …

Brief Studies, C. U. Faye, George A. Lindbeck

Concordia Theological Monthly

The Roman Catholic Church the Penalty for Heresy

So Far, Surprisingly Good

Homiletics: Outlines On A Series Of Free Texts, David S. Schuller

Concordia Theological Monthly

Outlines on a Series of Free Texts

Volume 127: 1963, Congregation Of The Mission

Annales de la Congregation de la Mission

Annals of the Congregation of the Mission, or collection of edifying letters.

The Vanguard (Vol. 10, No. 5), July 1963, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

What goes into an institute? Well, at least three people go into intensive study to emerge with challenging papers for the participants to hear. And there's a lot of planning on the part of those who come. For St. Louis people it was the problem of chartering a bus. For others it was transportation pools. For some it was arranging for the care of the children during the absence of the parents. There were those who came to learn, but also had the added assignment of preparing devotional exercises during the Institute or participating as servers in the Communion service.