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To: Honorary Serb; redgolum; aberaussie

There is a terrible irony in the timing of the Council's action on the Monday of the Third Week of Easter. The daily Epistle for yesterday was from 1 John 4:

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world."

And the opening Collect in the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau's "For All The Saints" daily prayer book was:

"God our Father,
your light of truth guides us to the way of Christ.
May all who follow him reject what is contrary to the Gospel.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever."


13 posted on 04/12/2005 5:22:20 AM PDT by lightman (The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised.)
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To: lightman
May I appropriate your post for my blog?

I use it for keeping lots of info on the ELCA issue(s) in one place for interested people, particularly those in my church.

15 posted on 04/12/2005 6:20:00 AM PDT by aberaussie
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