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| Confirmation
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| The 2003/2004
Confirmation year will begin Wednesday September 10th.
Classes will be held at the new addition of Our Savior's
Lutheran Church. The sessions will cover the Small Catechism
along with weekly workbook lessons on each section of the
Catechism. Pastor Unzicker has prepared a supplemental booklet
that will be read following each general lesson. The lessons
from the Supplemental Text will be posted on the church web
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Supplemental Text for
Wednesday December 1, 2003 |
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We Are Called to Serve
Lutherans believe that we ought to do the will of God-to
share his love-not because in this way we hope to win
God's good favor or to get some advantage for ourselves (we already have God's love and approval in
Christ) but because we have the joy of fellowship with God. We love because we are thankful. We serve God not to be saved, but because we are saved.
Some people believe that Lutherans have a "cheap and easy" religion: God gives every good thing as a gift, so why bother, then, to try to please God? To say this is to misunderstand what Lutherans believe. While it is true that we cannot earn what we need from God, Lutherans know and teach that when God's gifts-his love and fellowship-are experienced, a person naturally responds to God with love and gratitude. The result is that, while it costs nothing to receive God's benefits, it costs us everything-God receives our whole life as a thankoffering-when we begin to live with what he gives.
Lutherans believe that the central calling -the vocation-of the Christian life is to know and to do God's will. To do God's will is to serve our neighbor. God the creator has no needs that we can fulfill. Therefore, to please God we serve those whom God loves-our fellow human beings in the world. In particular, God calls us to serve the weak and the helpless. As we serve these, we serve Christ himself (see Matt. 25:41-46).
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