Season of Easter
The period of 40 days leading up to Easter.
What is Lent?
This person accidentally created the Lutheran church.
Who is Martin Luther?
This is the total number of refugees helped by the Refugee Confirmation Collection Project.
What is 15?
True or False:
Lutherans teach that Christians should be wary of science as a tool the devil uses to distract people from God's will.
Before Martin Luther translated the Bible into German, all Bible readings in church were in this language.
What is Latin?
This liturgical name is used for the first day of Lent.
What is Ash Wednesday?
Prince of Peace is a part of this denomination.
*BONUS: name not only the acronym but what this acronym stands for.
What is the ELCA?
*BONUS: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
This is the average number of years a refugee must wait to be resettled.
What is 17?
Lutherans believe that these two themes are always present in Scripture (the Bible).
What are law and gospel?
These were draped over altars of some Lutheran churches in Germany during World War II.
What are German flags?
According to the gospels, Jesus does these two significant acts for his disciples on Maundy Thursday.
What is washing their feet, and celebrating the Last Supper (first communion)?
Two of the three largest Lutheran denominations in the United States.
What are the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), the LCMS (Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod), or the WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod)?
This is the percentage of refugees who are resettled each year.
What is less than 1%?
This is the total number of books in the Bible.
What is 66?
This piece of paper from the church declared that a person was forgiven for a certain amount of their sin, so that they would spend less time in purgatory.
What is an indulgence?
These are four of the five services that take place during Holy Week.
What are Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil, and Easter Morning?
Martin Luther is most well known for writing this hymn.
What is "A Mighty Fortress is our God"?
This is the percentage of refugees throughout the world who are children (under the age of 18).
What is 50%?
Two common ways of interpreting scripture are called 'Theology of the Cross' and 'Theology of Glory.' This is the way of interpreting scripture used by Lutheran theology.
What is Theology of the Cross?
This phrase was used by Dietrich Bonhoeffer to refer to a person who gives up their autonomy to "crowd think" (or peer pressure).
What is a "stupid person?"
According to the gospels, this is the garden where Jesus and the disciples go to pray, and where Jesus is arrested.
What is the Garden of Gethsemane?
This Christian denomination requires believer's baptism instead of infant baptism.
BONUS: The difference between a believer's baptism and an infant baptism?
What is Southern Baptist?
What is the child's age - a baby, or 7 -8 years old?
This is the cost of 1 ethnic grocery pack, given to one of our refugee families.
What is about $500.
This person wrote the Book of Philemon, a letter that requests that Philemon do him a favor by freeing the slave Onesimus.
Who is the apostle Paul?
These teaching and policy documents provide broad frameworks to assist the ELCA in thinking about and discussing social issues in the context of faith and life.
What are Social Statements?