Recent Religious Surveys and Lutheran Beliefs- Lyman Stone, 3/5/25 (0641)

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Lyman Stone of the Institute for Family Studies Are Lutherans Growing? Shrinking? Liberal? Conservative? Three Surveys Disagree Institute for Family Studies

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0:00.0	Thy strong word. God's word is our great heritage. Almighty Father, bless the word. Hi, this is Pastor Will Whedon inviting you to join us for our hym sing at the 2025
0:10.7	Issues, etc., Making the Case Conference. This year's theme, the Word of God. Making the case is Friday, July 18th, and Saturday, July 19th at Concordia University, Chicago.
0:22.6	Find out more and register at Issuesetc.org or by calling 618-223-83-85.
0:36.3	James Madison famously says, if men were angels, they wouldn't need government.
0:43.3	And of course, the inference behind those, men aren't angels, that men actually are very far from angels.
0:47.3	And so they need to be governed for that very reason.
0:49.3	Sometimes up to 25% or even more of the, particularly like in the New England Journal of Medicine,
0:55.8	of the space for these magazines is taken up with this kind of ideological advocacy.
1:01.7	Sometimes I think these editors are more interested in politics than they are in science.
1:06.9	So when God says he loves us, he's not saying that he has warm fuzzies for us.
1:12.4	He's saying that he has taken action for us to save us in Jesus.
1:17.6	Love is not what God feels, it's what God does.
1:21.7	What is the manifestation of the reality of God?
1:24.5	The sacraments, the pure preaching the gospel, ensure that God is the one who is
1:31.0	making himself manifest and we're looking outward to where he is giving himself and how he is
1:37.3	giving himself framed by the Holy Word of God. New Hampshire shepherdesses love to listen to issues, etc.
1:47.8	Well, perhaps you have seen little tidbits of a recent Pew survey about religious life in America
1:55.5	that, well, it claims to show that members of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in majorities say that abortion is just fine or that hell doesn't exist.
2:08.4	What are we supposed to do with those numbers?
2:10.5	And the fact that that same survey says that the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate has 3 million members when it barely tops 1 million.
2:20.3	Greetings, and welcome to Issues, etc. live on this Wednesday afternoon, March the 5th.
2:24.3	I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. We'll talk about recent surveys about what Lutherans believe.
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