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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 01:04:04 -0400
From: Gegory Yeager 
To: elca-l@bgu.edu
Subject: Introduction

Hello!  My name is Gregory Yeager and I teach elementary Greek and Latin in a
small Christian school in Tacoma, Washington.  After reading some of your
postings, I think perhaps I shall fit in.  My wife and I are members of
Christ Lutheran Church in Lakewood, which happens to be looking for a real
good senior pastor lately.  That could be you!    I have a Bachelor of
Theology from L.I.F.E. Bible College in San Dimas, CA, which is the college
of the Foursquare Church.  We moved from the Pentecostal wing to the
Evangelical Lutheran Church (exactly opposite from most people I've met) and
are loving it (but then, some of our members raise their hands during
worship).  We plan to be at either Wartburg or Luther next fall. See you
online!

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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 12:28:22 -0400
From:DPaulYoung@aol.com

I'd like to ask a question by way of introduction.

My name is David Young and I am a benedictine monk at Portsmouth Abbey in 
Rhode Island. My interest in this list stems from a K-8 education at St 
Paul's Lutheran school in Fort Worth, Texas (though my family was not 
Lutheran); and ongoing admiration for the pastor at that time, John Otte.

I recently read from the "welcome statement":

>ELCA-L is a forum for the discussion of issues relevant to the
>Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  We welcome participation from
>members of denominations with whom we are in ecumenical dialogue,
>members of other Lutheran bodies, and other interested parties.

and then read, from Jamie.L.Reinschmidt-1@tc.umn.edu (J. Reinschmidt):

>We do indeed receive in word and sacrament a "foretaste of the feast to 
come," 
>but it is only graspable by faith.  Sight must wait.  We dare not forget the

>"not yet" which ineluctably qualifies the "already" in this _aeon_.  It is 
this 
>"not yet" which limns vision's horizon and leaves room for faith alone.

And wondered if it would be appropriate to make a comment about "word and 
sacrament...only graspable by faith".

The "favorite bible verse" responses where wonderful. I'd say mine would 
be: Luke 5,4 which is nice in Jerome's Latin: Duc in altum! (Strike out 
into the unknown...a free translation.)

DYoung