The ELCA Church
Council has asked for a report, recommendations and expenditure plan
for the proposed initiative, “Book of Faith: Lutherans Read the Bible.”
Details
of the initiative are to be presented at the council’s April 2007
meeting. The council is expected to transmit a proposal about the
initiative to the 2007 Churchwide Assembly.
The council, meeting Nov. 11-13 in Chicago, assigned direction of the effort to the Office of the Presiding Bishop, with program implementation to be carried out by the Vocation and Education unit.
The anticipated five-year program grew out of a resolution from the North Carolina Synod, “Faithful Conversations about Scripture,” which was adopted by the 2005 Churchwide Assembly.
“Book
of Faith” is expected “to help ELCA members draw more fully on Lutheran
understandings of the word and the Bible,” according to background
information presented to the council.
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