Word: ritschl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Always a Minority. Many of the parishioners who casually drifted into religion have just as casually drifted out of it-a fact that has caused many ministers to look at their flocks with new realism. Says Dr. Dietrich Ritschl of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary: "Christians are, and always have been, in the minority. I don't think that's the meaning of 'salt of the earth'-that everyone becomes salt." Some churches have voluntarily pruned the names of nonworshiping Sunday golfers from their roles of "active" members in a much-neglected procedure called maintenance...
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