NORTHERN TEXAS -
NORTHERN
LOUISIANA SYNOD
of the
Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America

Twentieth Annual
Synod Assembly
April 27 - 29, 2007		 Sheraton Grand
DFW Airport Hotel
4440 W. Jon Carpenter Frwy
Irving, TX 75053
800-345-5251

Located at Esters Rd
and Hwy 114
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The Synod Assembly of 2007 launches the NT-NL Synod into a six-year exploration of what it means to embrace DiscipleLife. The theme refines and deepens the themes of the previous six years which focused on Mission. As we begin this exploration, the first year is devoted to an understanding of the CALLED to DiscipleLife which all Christians have experienced by virtue of their baptism. The 2007 Synod Assembly will be motivational and inspirational in tone as voting members are given generous amounts of time to study, reflect and share the call to Disciplelife. In three guided sessions introduced by Dr. Richard Nelson we will focus on how God calls us individually to DiscipleLife through the Call of Isaiah, how God calls us into communal DiscipleLife through the Call of Samuel and finally how God calls us to DiscipleLife for the sake of the world through the Call of Esther. The guided study is intended to be used in every congregation of the synod as a foundation for the next six years of living the DiscipleLife. There will be four opportunities to worship together and five DisicpleShops where selected congregations will share how they are living out the call of God in their parish. Additionally congregations will be invited to share where the Spirit is moving in their context through DiscipleLight displays.
Bible Study Leader, The Rev. Dr. Richard Nelson, has been the W. J. A. Power Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology since 2001. Previously he served as pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh (1974-77), then taught at Ferrum College in Virginia (1977-81) and Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary in Pennsylvania (1981-2001). He participated in the Tel Gezer excavation in Israel (1971) and a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar at Yale University (1980). He has been a visiting scholar at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (1991) and Princeton Theological Seminary (1999).

He is the author of seven books and numerous articles on Biblical themes. His books include First and Second Kings (John Knox, 1987); Raising Up A Faithful Priest (Westminster John Knox, 1993); Joshua: A Commentary (Westminster John Knox, 1997); The Historical Books (Abingdon, 1998); Deuteronomy: A Commentary (Westminster John Knox, 2002), and From Eden to Babel: An Adventure in Bible Study (Chalice Press, 2006). He has written three adult Bible study series for Augsburg Fortress Press.

Professor Nelson is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and rostered in the NT-NL Synod. His wife Karen teaches Developmental Reading at Richland Community College in Dallas. They have four adult children.

 

“Synod Home Companion” Show
You will not want to miss the Saturday night special during the banquet. Our own Rev. Don Kingman will be hosting and emceeing the fun. Come and enjoy the talent we have within our own synod. Extra meal tickets are available through the registration process.

 
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