Martin Luther High School - Phalanx Yearbook (Greendale, WI)

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MARK ESCHENBACHER KIM MARTENS PAUL BOCK MICHAEL ROSINSKI TO THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1973 Christian Living is a way of life to which you have been exposed through your four years at Martin Luther. You were Committed to that life in your baptism and renewed that commitment in your con- firmation. The Lutheran churches of the Lutheran High School Association have joined in an effort to make your high school years an experience in learning to know jesus Christ and His Will for men. The diploma you receive signifies completion of those four years and your official transcript demonstrates the level of academic achievement you reached. How much more important it would be to give to you some diploma or transcript to indicate the quality of the Christian Life you are living, but that is not a quality which can be measured on human measurement scales. Unless you continue your education in a Christian school, unless you build for yourself a close relationship with a congregation to con- tinue feeding on the Word and Sacraments, unless you find in your own life a regular pattern of studying God's Word. . . unless these things happen, the carefully structured Christian exposure you have been living with will end for you. Christian Living must continue for you, and Christian Living is a pattern of life frustrated by sin. It so often seems that all of our good plans and intentions fail in the overpowering nature of our human sinfulness. Yet, it is in that terribly weak humanness that we find the reason for Christian Living and the power for Christian Living, The Christian Life holds for it a promise from God of happiness during the years we life on earth. God has promised that all things work out for good to those that love Him. What works out for our good becomes the happiness we live with. The Christian Life offers to all, through jesus Christ, the greater happiness of knowing forgive- ness and how to forgive. The Christian knows that in jesus Christ the promise of salvation assures the future in eternity. What greater joy and happiness can there be! May you in your coming years be powerful witnesses for jesus Christ in your living the Christian Life. May your homes be founded on the rock of faith. May your work be dedicated as service to God, to His Will for you. Seek diligently for the power of God in your life for only in that power will the life you lead have meaning, God bless you as you continue that search. R. W. Storm, Principal