Note: Several of the Gottesdienst editors have given presentations at regional, district, and circuit events. In fact, we are working on creating a speakers' bureau to provide a clearing house to connect district conference committees with speakers who can provide thought-provoking, Confessional, theological, and practical presentations. In the coming days I'm planning on posting examples of these presentations. Here is my latest - +HRC

Freed from the Shopkeeper's Prison

Presented at the Indiana District's North Region General Pastor's Conference, May 9-10, 2011

Summary

Lutherans have been highly influenced by the outreach and evangelism methods, outlook, language, and expectations of the conservative American Protestant churches. But is there another path? What about the doctrine of Election? What exactly is the Pastor's job? What is his duty in the task of "outreach"? How did Jesus and the Apostles "do evangelism"? These and other questions are explored in this four part presentation by Rev. H. R. Curtis.

Both text files and audio files are listed below. Of course, there is some stuff in the text that is not in the audio and vice versa. Part IV, especially, is really only fully there in the audio with the text being notes.

Text files (pdf):

Part I: Freed from the Shopkeeper's Prison - Election, Evangelism, and Functional Arminianism

Part II: Bible and Confessional Study on Election and Evangelism

Part III: What is the Pastor's Job?

Part IV: How to Run a Lutheran Evangelism Program

Audio files (mp3 - thanks to Fr. Erich Fickel):

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV