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Student-led Worship Offers Different Interpretation of 'Fundamental'
By Rev. Scott Olson

Nate Preisinger (St. Olaf College, '08) shared the message Saturday morning. Photo by Leslie Neist

Voting members began Saturday’s session with a Service of Morning Prayer led by students from the student congregation of St. Olaf College, one of 28 colleges of the ELCA. The assembly attendees participated devotionally in the beautifully led music. Nate Preisinger, senior Religion major, offered a spoken reflection on Acts 3. Comparing the Christian life of faith to basketball-speak, Preisinger said, “Let us not speak of our ‘upside’ or ‘potential’ but commit ourselves to the fundamentals of our faith.” These fundamentals, not to be confused with fundamentalism, involve the Lutheran practices of Word and Sacrament.

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