Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 1993

Abstract

No matter how old an observation, it remains nonetheless true: We tend to remember the preacher more than the sermon, the teacher more than the lecture. Perhaps that is all we have recently learned in a preliminary study of twelve congregations in the Southwestern Minnesota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (SW Synod). However, there are some nuances that raise very important questions for theological education in seminaries and congregations—and, even more important, insights for the role of leaders and their use of Scripture in the moral conversations within congregations. In short, we have found from dozens of interviews with members of these congregations that congregational leaders are very important in moral conversations within these congregations. They are so important that they are, in practice, if not in principle, even more important than the Bible.

Publication Title

Word & World

ISSN

0275-5270

Publisher

Luther Seminary

Volume

13

Issue

4

First Page

392

Last Page

397

Published Citation

Keifert, Patrick R. “The Bible, Congregational Leaders, and Moral Conversation.” Word & World 13, no. 4 (September 1993): 392–97.

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