ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 4 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> Thank you for your response to David. That certainly makes sense. But I have a question about how others respond to what the sources say about Jesus. I'm serving in an inner city church in Los Angeles. Many of my congregation's members are converts from other denominations, Baptists, AME and a number of Pentecostal churches. Of course I know that all Christian churches have a prominent place for the person of Jesus. But it would help me to communicate more clearly with my parishioners if I knew this: Does each church or denomination understand the person of Jesus in the same way? >> DR. DAVID SCAER: It's difficult to answer that question in regard to a particular person, whether a person coming from another denomination has the same understanding of Jesus that we Lutherans do. This can only be determined by conversation. And one should not jump to conclusions without speaking to the individual. But in a general sort of a way, Lutherans have a different understanding about Jesus than other churches. The churches that you mention, the Baptist church, the AME church and a number of Pentecostal churches are generally put into what we call the Reform category. And they do not see a close association between Jesus as divine and Jesus as human. And now, they see Jesus as divine. But they do not see that his divinity is being -- as being God is something which is always accessible through his humanity. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***