The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (02):
My husband is a member of the Missouri Synod. We are both Christians and believe in our Wonderful Savior Jesus Christ. Presently, I attend a church where I grew up. My family still...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (02):
Is it okay to belong to one WELS Church and split your time between it and another WELS Church? The reason I am asking is our Pastor refuses to call the children up for a small Bib...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (02):
My mother and father chose not to baptize me when I was born, and since church was not a part of their lives, I was not incorporated into that atmosphere. I have gone to some churc...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (03):
I am curious as to what 3 or 4 of the main problems or obstacles are with the teaching of confirmation to the youth of the WELS. For example people are too busy etc.
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (03):
I am a pastor of an united Methodist church , we were having an administrative meeting and one of the members stated we need to write letters to members that hardly come to church ...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (03):
Like most Christian churches today we have delinquent members that have not been in church for a number of years. At what time would it be correct to drop them from our church role...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (03):
Can I join a WELS church, if I do not agree with the doctrine of infant baptism? What was Martin Luther's view on infant baptism? Can you show me any original or hardcore evidence ...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (03):
My mother was baptized and raised in WELS (I myself was baptized in an LCMS church), but my father was not and felt unaccepted and sometimes unwelcome in WELS churches. This led my...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (03):
How do you know what is God's will for your life versus your own will? I am in the position of needing to determine where it is God wants me to be as a church member. I turned the ...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (03):
Who has the authority within the church to "remove a person from membership"? Is this within the authority of the minister? the board? the congregation? When is it appropriate for...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (04):
What is the appropriate way to treat people who leave a Godsend ministry, to go to another? Is it the right thing to continue friendship or do you cut them off?
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (04):
I was a lifelong WELS member until I was recently released by the local church. I was released for good reason; I was not attending! The reason I was not attending is I feel the ch...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (05):
I am a council member of a WELS church. We have a program that tracks members worship attendance. We have a calling committee that calls members who have not attended Church after ...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (05):
Their are several members in our church which is mostly Apache that have stoped coming but they have faithful members of their family that attends faithfuly. My pastor has asked se...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (05):
I am a member of a WELS church in Omaha. Currently, my boyfriend and I are talking about marriage, and the question of what church we will attend has came up. He has been very good...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (05):
I am currently a Baptist and my husband is a Lutheran, I know that my husband has told me to become a Lutheran I would need to take classes I believe. What would I need to do to be...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (05):
I have been doing a lot of research into WELS doctrine and spoken with a WELS pastor, but I have a question. Can I become a member of a WELS church if I disagree with one of its do...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (05):
Can you please describe the ceremony for confirmation?
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (05):
Should an unmarried lady be refused instruction and he transfer into a WELS church? No one knew they were living together and they attended regular church services, but the pastor ...
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The Church and Its Ministry - Church Membership (06):
We are becoming disillusioned with our church, and the ELCA, because of their refusal to condemn abortion and their recent "opening of a dialogue" with homosexuals (which could lea...
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