These videos consist of a series of questions answered by Dr. Rast and Dr. Schumacher over the issues that has faced the Lutheran Church since the Reformation.
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26 - How does the LCMS fit into the big picture of world missions?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains that the LCMS was late to world missions but conducted home missions.
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27 - In the LCMS how are missions connected to the church?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher addresses mission societies and the LCMS.
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28 - How do mission fields develop into independent churches?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher gives ideas that need to be carried out for a mission church to become a local church.
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29 - What is meant to say that a church is independent?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains the goal of creating mission churches.
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30 - How did Christianity come to America?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher gives an overview of how Christianity came to the Americas.
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31 - What kind of Christianity was transplanted to America?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher gives an overview of Protestantism in the early American Colonies.
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32 - What was different about American churches compared to European churches?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains how the different conditions in the colonies changed church life.
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33 - Was colonial America seen by Europe as a mission field?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains that the early colleges in the colonies were established for creating ministers and doing mission work.
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34 - Were the American colonists interested in bringing the Gospel to Native Americans?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher mentions several missionaries to the Native Americans of North America.
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35 - When did Lutherans come to America?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast traces the early Lutherans in the colonies and explains what happened to them.
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37 - Was America originally founded as a Christian nation?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast discusses the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.
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38 - How did the various groups like Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses get their start in America?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast why groups such as the Mormons have developed in the United States.
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39 - What impact did democritization have on Lutheranism?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains how democracy affects Lutheranism in America.
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40 - Was there a second Great Awakening?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains the Second Great Awakening and its effects on the country.
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41 - What is unique about the American religious story?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains the effect of democracy on the American religious story.
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42 - What is fundamentalism?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains the history of the term fundamentalism and how Lutherans do not fit the definition.
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43 - How did American Christianity shape the Lutheran Church in the United States?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains how the democracy affected the Lutheran Church in America.
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44 - What is American Lutheranism?
William Schumacher
Dr. Schumacher explains what is meant by American Lutheranism.
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45 - When did the forefathers of the LCMS arrive and what were they like?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains the German immigrations and why they came.
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46 - What was Lutheranism like on the American frontier?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains how German Lutherans received pastoral care on the frontier.
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47 - What is an example of how Lutheran ministry was conducted on the frontier?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast gives examples of frontier Lutheranism by recounting the efforts of Friedrich Wyneken.
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48 - What impact did Wynecken have on the churches back in Europe?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains how the efforts of Friedrich Wyneken leads to the formation of Ft. Wayne Theological Seminary.
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49 - Where is Perry County and why is it important for Lutherans?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains how the Saxons came to Perry County Missouri.
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50 - What happened to Martin Stephan?
Lawrence Rast
Dr. Rast explains the expulsion of Martin Stephan and the confusion that the Saxons faced after the expulsion.
