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January 2005
Volume 9, Number 1
 
F E A T U R E S

Doctrine and Mission: Not Either/Or, but Both/And!

By Rev. Dr. Lawrence R. Rast, Jr.
Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Assistant Academic Dean at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana

What Scripture and the history of the church tell us is that there should be--in fact, there is--a complementary and inseperable relationship between doctrine and practice.

A Perspective of Mission Life

By Rev. Theodore M. R. Krey
Missionary Pastor, church planter, and theological educator in Venezuela

One who is asked to teach courses at the seminary level, visit his members, evangelize, care for fellow missionaries, and interact with the national church quickly realizes that mission work is God's work and that anything that one is able to do and complete is only by the grace of God.

The Theology of Missions

By Rev. Dr. Douglas L. Rutt
Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions and Ph.D. Supervisor at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana

A Lutheran understanding of mission will point to God in His Trinitarian economy as the original and ongoing source of mission.

Shepherding His Flock

By Jayne E. Sheafer


Preparing to Serve

By Jayne E. Sheafer

 

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