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V. Concluding Statement: The Journey Continues

The members of the Lutheran-Moravian Bilateral Dialogue recommend to their respective churches that our churches move forward as expeditiously as possible to approve our churches entering full communion with each other, as indicated in the recommendations at the beginning of this report. We thank our churches for the opportunity to engage in this endeavor, and we thank God for helping us to grow in faith as we undertook this journey with our Savior.

We conclude by continuing the journey with our Shepherd:

I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep who do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

Lutheran-Moravian Dialogue List of Participants

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Rev. Walter H. Wagner, Ph.D., co-chair
Allentown, Pennsylvania

The Rev. Thelma Megill Cobbler, Ph.D.
Columbus, Ohio

The Rev. Sarah Henrich, Ph.D.
Saint Paul, Minnesota

David Yeago, Ph.D.
Columbia, South Carolina

The Rev. Samuel Zeiser, S.T.M.
Johnsonville, Pennsylvania

The Rev. Daniel Martensen, Ph.D., staff
Chicago, Illinois

* member for the first three sessions
** member for the final two sessions

Moravian Church in America

The Rev. Arthur Freeman, Ph.D., co-chair
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

The Rev. Otto Dreydoppel, Jr.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

The Rev. D. Wayne Burkette, Ph.D.*
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

The Rev. C. Daniel Crews, Ph.D.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Robert Helm, Ph.D.**
Winston-Salem, North Carolina