# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S464
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

464 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

and education. To carry out this phase of its work, the Lutheran
Office will be required to co-ordinate its work closely with that
of all important boards, commissions, and committees of Synod.

2. Keeping its fingers on the pulse of the nation and its
influential agencies: departments of government; social or edu-
cational committees, agencies, or commissions; the Associated
Press, United Press, and Religious News Service; individual news-
papers and magazines, radio chains and radio stations, and motion
pictures. This will not be a meddlesome interest, but purely an
interest in policies and publicity that affect the welfare of the
Church and the nation.

3. Engaging in any other activity that will serve the purposes
for which the office is set up.

Plan of Operation

1. The office should be set up by the Synod and be responsible
to Synod.

2. It should be located in Washington, D.C., so as to be close
to most of the agencies which are within the sphere of its operation.

3. The office should be properly staffed so that all of Synod’s
interests may be represented. The personnel requirement would
probably be as follows: a sound theologian, a well-indoctrinated
practical educator, a man trained in research, a man trained in
publicity methods, and the necessary secretarial help. The theo-
logian on the staff should be designated as director of the office.

; Summary

We believe that if evangelical Christianity had determined
systematic planning and spokesmanship, such as would be pro-
vided under the terms of this memorial, Lutheranism and true
evangelical Christianity would be a much greater force in America
than it is today. Taking the Great Commission seriously, we must
provide much more aggressive implementation for evangelical
Christianity than we have provided heretofore. We must adapt
our public relations and publicity methods to the present-day
world, without sacrificing a particle of the Bible truth that

we teach, Boarp ror Paris Epucation

Pau M. Bretscusr, Chairman
L. J. Drerker, Secretary

Besides these memorials on a Department of Public Relations,
Unprinted Memorial 89 by the Public Relations Committee of the
Western District and Unprinted Memorial 90 by the Press and
Publicity Committee of the Colorado District asked for the estab-