Congregational Courses: Dogmatics 4
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59 – What constitutes an emergency in ministry?
Dr. Schulz explains when a layperson can fill the role of pastor and gives some examples of that happening.
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31 – Do Lutheran congregations make much use of the practice of excommunication?
Dr. Biermann explains when a member should be excommunicated.
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66 – How does the pastor stand as a person in contrast to his members?
Dr. Schulz explains that a pastor does not have a special spiritual quality as the Roman Catholics believe.
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34 – How does one respond to negative reactions to church discipline?
Dr. Biermann explains that doing church discipline is never easy but it is the right thing to do and needs to be accomplished.
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57 – What place do non-ordained and alternate route people have in relation to the call?
Dr. Schulz explains the reasons for and intent of the alternate route ministers in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
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53 – What does the word sect mean?
Dr. Schulz defines what sects and cults are and how they are different from main line churches.
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14 – Are we able to earn rewards by keeping the law?
Dr. Biermann warns that if we do serve our neighbor with the motive of building rewards in heaven we are sinning.
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08 – Is environmental activism appropriate in light of God’s restoration of creation?
Dr. Biermann explains that we should be concerned about the environment and protect it but not a the cost of God’s crowning creation man.
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20 – Does marriage still have connections to the right-hand realm?
Dr. Biermann explains that marriage is the connection that God has to the church in the right hand realm.