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Nathan Oates Part 2

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We continue our conversation with Pastor Nathan Oates of Emmaus Church Community in Lincoln, California.  Listen to Part 1 to hear Nathan’s faith journey.  In this installment, we learn about Nathan’s view of the future for both himself and for Emmaus Church Community.

Nathan and Mark grew up together in the same Nazarene youth group.  Nathan shares his testimony and the account of his own journey from youth to his founding of the Emmaus Church Community in this first of two episodes.

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Seminex as Seen by Pastor Art Otto

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Seminex, a seminary in exile, occurred  in 1974, when Concordia Seminary lost its faculty and students in what became the seminal event of a larger division that affected the entire Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.  Art Otto had graduated from the seminary just 9 years earlier and was still working with Concordia students at a Missouri Synod church nearby when it all hit the fan.  Art shares with us his perspective as a student of the same Concordia Seminary professors who taught from the historical-critical method of the study of scripture.

Video:  Seminex: Memories of a Church Divided

“The Reason to Start” by Robert Gacek licensed through AudioBlocks.com, 2019.