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Last week in Rio de Janeiro, at the general conference of the Methodist Church of Brazil, and in Lima, at the Fourth Latin American Lutheran Conference, two major Protestant groups met to ponder their rapid growth rate (nearly 10% a year) and its portents for the future. As even Roman Catholic churchmen admit, the potential of Protestant expansion is unlimited. There is a strong tendency among the masses of the poor, the educated middle class, and the young to look upon Roman Catholicism as an elderly and often irrelevant institution. Still spiritually hungry, however, many find satisfaction in a simple...
...getting more pay and prefer it that way; they would rather have cash in the pants pocket than 10% off on the pants. Moreover, they increasingly find the "clerical discount" demeaning. "I used to use a railroad discount," says the Rev. George Reck, pastor of Houston's Zion Lutheran Church, "but I always felt the conductor was saying to himself, 'Here's another chiseler.'" And chiseling can work two ways, suggests Father George McCormick of Trinity Episcopal Church in Miami: "When I'm offered a 10% dis count, I feel that the price has been...
Convinced that there could be no fellowship without first reaching doctrinal agreement, the 2,744,574-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has long stood aside from association with other U.S. Lutheran bodies and even more from the Christian ecumenical move ment. But at its triennial convention in Detroit's Cobo Hall last week, the Synod's 2,000 delegates voted to form a cooperative service agency with the American Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church in America and the tiny (20,000 members) Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches...
...agency is the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., which is scheduled to replace the National Lutheran Council in 1967. Besides coordinating the educational, welfare and mission work of the nation's three big Lutheran churches, it will provide a framework for Missouri to discuss its theological differences-chiefly over interpretation of the Bible and the classic Lutheran confession-with the other groups...
...passed a resolution defining the church as "a confessional movement within the body of Christ rather than a denomination emphasizing institutional barriers of separation." Now that the ice is broken, many delegates expect that at its next convention in 1967, Missouri will be ready to consider membership in the Lutheran World Federation and, eventually, in the National and World Council of Churches...