LUTHERAN CHURCH
(See also Evangelical Lutheran Church; Luther, Martin)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
attendance: g66 9/22 4; g65 5/8 27; g62 6/22 27
attitude toward—
Bible: g65 4/22 30; g64 12/22 13-14
evolution: w58 447
excommunication: w83 6/15 26
homosexuality: w74 483; w73 356
house-to-house witnessing: w60 647-648
revolutions: g72 4/22 17
war: g75 2/22 19-20; g72 4/22 6-8
baptism: g72 3/8 18
beliefs: g74 8/22 9-11; g72 4/8 30; w69 419, 424; g64 12/22 13-14; w63 145; g63 9/22 30; g52 11/8 16; ta 349-350
Bible illiteracy: g62 6/22 27
Catholic Church joins in a commission with: w74 273; g72 3/8 16
chaplain for U.S. House of Representatives: g80 1/22 29-30
class distinctions: g62 5/22 29; yb61 190
clergy: g74 8/22 8-12; g72 1/22 5, 29; g72 8/22 18; w71 215; yb70 158-159; g70 12/8 4; g69 1/22 30-31; w68 485; g68 8/22 5-7; g67 6/8 29; w64 296; yb61 190, 251; g61 4/22 30
percentage not believing Bible to be inspired: g79 2/8 30
view that there is no need for unity among Christians: w79 9/15 32
converts: w65 63
decline: g72 8/22 17; g71 12/22 31; g70 1/22 30; g70 8/8 31
disunity: g74 3/22 29; g74 8/22 8-12; g72 1/22 30; g71 10/22 30; g61 10/8 21; g57 3/8 5; w56 549; g52 11/8 16; ta 349-350
experiences: yb70 212-213; w69 510, 734
minister becomes Witness: w74 411; w72 327
failure: g74 6/8 31; w68 285; g68 10/8 11
Fifth General Assembly: g70 11/22 16-19
Finland:
membership loss: g83 3/22 31
fund-raising: g69 7/8 4; g68 1/22 5-6; g53 3/8 24; g33 9/13 775
Germany:
clergymen allowed to be politically active: g84 2/22 29
cooperation with Nazis: g84 12/8 12
lack of clear Bible answers to questions: g80 4/8 30
lesbian “marriage” annulled: g84 11/22 30
minister unfrocked for heresy: g79 6/22 30
“missionary year”: w79 5/1 30
heresy trials: w56 168
immortality of the soul:
new catechism admits doctrine founded on Platonic philosophy: w77 144
theologians admit soul dies: w58 355-356
licenseless marriage ceremonies: w81 9/1 28
membership: g71 11/8 30; g70 8/8 31; g70 11/22 16; g64 8/22 29-30; g62 5/22 5, 8; g62 6/22 27; g60 11/8 30; g52 11/8 16
missionaries of, stir up mob against Witnesses: yb68 217
money institutions owned by: g80 3/8 30
morals: w71 451
name: w62 118
Nicene Creed: ta 315
nudity of couple in church: g71 5/8 29
numbering of Ten Commandments: g60 11/22 27; g46 7/31 13
opposition to Witnesses: yb72 140
Papua New Guinea:
threats of violence against: g80 4/22 30
pope delivers sermon in Rome’s Lutheran church: g84 9/8 15
resolution regarding nuclear arms freeze: g82 12/8 31
Sunday school: g70 9/22 21
socializing: w58 509
surveys:
as to members talking to others about their faith: w79 9/1 15
clergy and laity regarding morals: g79 12/22 29
regarding whether a child is sinful at birth and whether the world’s religions lead to God: w83 12/1 28
Sweden:
membership cancellations: g79 12/8 30
objection to viewing God as male: w77 110
theological schools: g69 4/22 24; g63 1/8 30
Concordia: g74 8/22 8-12; g74 11/8 30
Quotations
church growing smaller: g60 8/8 29-30
everyone entitled to teach heresy without being punished: w58 447
unable to say what we believe: w60 648