Continuing Education - CTSFW (Grass Valley, CA » July 22-24, 2025)
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Planting Churches in the First Century: What Luke's Gospel Teaches Us About the Mission of the Church
Tuesday, Jul 22 - Thursday, Jul 24, 2025
In the early church, missionaries used church manuals to plant churches. The Didache is a good example of a church manual of catechesis, baptism, and the Eucharist for the Jewish mission. This Continuing Education course will examine how Luke's Gospel provided early Christian missionaries with a way of planting a church for Gentiles through catechesis, baptism, preaching, the office of the ministry, the Eucharist, and an understanding of the Church as the New Israel. It will also show how the evangelist St. Luke teaches us liturgical and sacramental theology through the teaching and preaching of Jesus.
SCHEDULE:
Class begins the first day at 9:00 a.m. and concludes at 3:30 p.m. the final day.
COST:
1.5 CEU course for pastors/professional church workers ($175.00)
1.5 CEU course for retired pastors/laypersons ($125.00)
Dr. Arthur Just, Jr.
Dr. Just has been on the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne (CTSFW), since 1984. He is professor of Exegetical Theology and teaches New Testament, liturgics, homiletics, catechetics and pastoral theology. He has served as chairman of Exegetical Theology, dean of the
Chapel, director of Deaconess Studies and co-director of the Good Shepherd Institute of Pastoral Theology and Sacred Music.
Just was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1953. His family lived in Mexico and Spain for twelve years during his formative years. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and Union College, Schenectady, New York, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and English literature in 1975. He attended CTSFW, receiving a MDiv degree in 1980. His vicarage was at South Shore Trinity Lutheran Church in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He served Grace Lutheran Church in Middletown, Connecticut, as pastor from 1980 to 1984.
He studied at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (1982), and at Yale Divinity School
(1983-1984), receiving his STM from Yale in New Testament and Liturgics in 1984. He received his PhD from the University of Durham in England in 1990 in the New Testament. His doctoral thesis, The Ongoing Feast: Table Fellowship and Eschatology at Emmaus, was published in 1993 by Pueblo Publishing Company, an imprint of The Liturgical Press.
He has contributed a chapter on “Liturgical Renewal in the Parish” to Lutheran Worship: History and Practice by Concordia Publishing House (CPH). He has also written articles on preaching, liturgy and New Testament in various periodicals. He wrote a two-volume commentary on the Gospel of Luke for the Concordia Commentary Series (CPH). The first volume appeared in December 1996 and the second volume in November of 1997. He also published the Lukan volume for the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture from InterVarsity Press, Thomas C. Oden, General Editor ( February 2003). He has published two additional books with CPH: one for pastors, deaconesses and laypeople for the visitation of the sick and dying entitled Visitation, and another book on the liturgy of the church entitled Heaven on Earth: The Gifts of Christ in the Divine Service, a book that expands his video series on the liturgy entitled Liturgy: Yesterday, Today, and Forever.
He was chairman of the Lectionary Committee for Lutheran Service Book for the Commission on
Worship and a member of the Steering Committee.
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