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http:\/\/www.thelutheran.org\/article\/article.cfm?article_id=10165<\/a>I am glad Jesus never qualified those he would minister to. LCMS as Chaplains in the military will “Harrison said LCMS chaplains would provide word and sacrament ministry to Lutherans in uniform “on a case-by-case basis.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.thelutheran.org\/article\/article.cfm?article_id=10165I am glad Jesus never qualified those he would minister to. LCMS as Chaplains in the military will “Harrison said LCMS chaplains would provide word and sacrament ministry to Lutherans in uniform “on a case-by-case basis.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-51","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":221,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/08\/spiritual-care-of-self\/","url_meta":{"origin":51,"position":0},"title":"Spiritual Care of Self","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"June 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently, in fact this week, I started my CPE program. 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