# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S816
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

814 PARISH EDUCATION

vanced courses to help produce from among the laity more
trained Bible teachers, Bible students and Christian workers;
9. That in our schools for higher education we, as a Synod,
make provision for developing a Bible-studying church-body by
a. Making the Bible increasingly the center of the curriculum,
b. Offering more instruction in specific techniques of Bible
study,
c. giving guidance to all students in the effective teaching of
Bible classes;

10. That all Boards of Parish Education, synodical and con-
gregational, be requested to give practical assistance to the con-
gregations in establishing, building up, improving, and expanding
Bible classes, teacher-training courses, and promoting Bible read-
ing through workshops, conferences, Sunday school institutes and
associations, and such other means as may prove practicable and
helpful;

1l. That we, furthermore, invite our national organizations,
the Lutheran Laymen’s League, the Lutheran Women’s Missionary
League, and the Walther League, and all boards and committees
of Synod within the scope of their field of activity to contribute
toward, and participate in, this Bible-study program;

12. That this Centennial Synod commend the devotional-life
and the Bible-study needs of the Church to the persistent and
heartfelt prayer of all, since success in achieving the objectives
of Bible study must come as a special blessing from our gra-
cious God.

Resolution 7
(Book of Memorials, p. 240)

Wuereas, Many congregations wishing to establish a school

find themselves handicapped because of a lack of adequate

_ space; and

Wuereas, The practice of building up the congregation around
the nucleus of the parochial school has been found to be effective
mission procedure; be it

Resolved,

1, That Synod urge District Mission Boards and Church Ex-
tension Committees to adopt the policy when purchasing real
estate and planning church buildings for a new mission, to take
into consideration the eventual needs for a complete program of
Christian education in the congregation, including the parochial
school, and to make adequate provision for the same in the
original purchase of real estate property;