When defending a biblical doctrine or practice, have you ever been accused of not caring for the lost?

I've written a column in the latest issues et cetera journal titled Playing the Mission Card.

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In the Wittenburg Trail feature, Jeremy Lamont recounts his slow and sometimes painful path

out of Mormonism to the Lutheran Confession.

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Perhaps more aware of this now in the 21st century with global communication and everything's

always on all the time that really the world never sleeps just keeps rolling over and over again.

We go to bed here and someone else is waking up someplace else and the economy rolls on

and the politics roll on and the work and the earning and the spending and all of those things

roll on. And that can be pretty overwhelming, can't it? What about the fact that the church

never sleeps? Not just that the world never sleeps. It's not a lot of comfort in that.

But the church never sleeps. The church never stops praying, preaching, baptizing, feeding,

all of these things that the church is in the world to do. It never stops.

Now, there will come a day when it will come to an end. But until then, until Christ's return,

Christians never sleep. Greetings and welcome to issues et cetera.

Coming to you from the studios of Lutheran Public Radio in Collinsville, Illinois.

I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in on this Thursday afternoon.

Dr. Carl Thakenture will kick it off. We're going to do part four of our five part daily

series on evening hymns today. The day thou gave us. In our two of issues, et cetera,

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