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Following your story on Pastor Crist there is a letter in your Aug. 29 issue by the Rev Grover Bell, who, along with others, challenges the right of any Protestant to judge another based on the right of Protes tants to interpret Scripture as one pleases it is true that most Protestants believe in liberty in interpretation of Scripture However, many of us doubt that the right of interpretation of Scripture includes the right to deny . . . basic doctrines such as the deity of Christ . . . While a man has the right to deny any part of the Bible, I question...
...Pastor Crist is to be respected for holding firm to his personal convictions, else would we be instrumental in restoring our church to the totalitarianism of Rome On the other hand, we cannot permit the personal convictions of our pastors to be aired from the dedicated Lutheran pulpit, lest we bring down on ourselves the confusion of Canterbury...
...summer heat melted bis congregation, the Rev. Richard L. Key of Yuma, Ariz, took a bold step. To publicize his nondenominational First Christian Church, he signed a contract with radio station KOLD to sponsor local night baseball games. Sports-loving Pastor Key, 37, a pitcher in Yuma's adult softball league and a sometime newscaster, did not bear down too heavily on salvation between the innings. His talks-mostly about perseverance, hope, kindness-had plenty of light moments. When the microphone caught a ballplayer cursing, Pastor Key pointed up an alternative to swearing with the story of the Quaker...
...Pastor Key's commercials paid off. Looking back over the season this week, Key found attendance at First Christian UP 75% over last summer...
...Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church of heresy charges similar to those for which the Rev. George P. Crist Jr. of Durham was convicted (TIME, Aug. 8). The committee found "obvious confusion, immaturity and inconsistencies in Gerberding's position and recommended administrative action by the synod. Pastor Grist's comment: "The trial was considerably different from mine...