Size Of Our Denomination-Affiliated School in the U.S.
WELS schools have grown to become the ___________ largest denomination-affiliated school system? a) 10th b) 8th c) 4th d) 2nd
c) 4th As Lutherans, we have always taken Christian Education seriously. We can be proud of how far we've come in the last 140 years. Luther commented on Christian Education: "Above all, the foremost reading for everybody, both in the universities and in the schools, should be Holy Scriptures – and for the younger boys, the Gospels. And would to God that every town had a girls’ school as well, where the girls would be taught the gospel for an hour every day either in German or in Latin… Is it not right that every Christian man know the entire gospel by the age of nine or ten? Does he not derive his name and his life from the gospel? A spinner or a seamstress teaches her daughter her craft in her early years. But today even the great, learned prelates and the very bishops do not know the gospel" (Luther's Works, Vol. 44, pp. 205-206).