# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S503
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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 503

Synod or one of its official groups, or by any officer, member,
ublication of Synod, or by any others.
..We now declare these principles to be our position in the
tter of union or unity. We invite others to join us in this
“declaration.
We herewith ask the Missouri Synod to adopt these principles
d so clarify its position and give definite direction in the
matter of union or unity.
. We ask that the Missouri Synod make no further attempt to
xmulate any statement of doctrinal or practical agreement with
‘synods outside of the Synodical Conference.

We further ask the Missouri Synod not to elect or appoint
-g Committee on Union or Unity nor continue the one now acting.
_ Submitted by a group of pastors of the Southwestern Con-
ference of the Minnesota District of the Ev. Lutheran Synod of
_ Missouri, Ohio, and Other States and other pastors of the Missouri
Synod (names will be made available to proper Convention
Committee).

Remitted on behalf of the above by

Cart A. BramscHer, Alpha, Minn. -
P. G. Portscu, Secretary, Slayton, Minn.

Suggesting Basis for Lutheran Unity
(Memorial 603)

Wuereas, Our Lord in His high-priestly prayer asks for a
visible unity among His disciples— “that the world may believe
that Thou hast sent Me” (John 17:21); and

Wuereas, This unity is to be fostered by means of a visible

Wuereas, By the grace of God this fellowship must be estab-
lished according to the will of God and the prayer of Christ in
such manner that it be neither too exacting, causing confusion and
separatism, nor too tolerant, causing indifference to the revealed
Word of God, in harmony with the declaration of the Augsburg
Confession “To the true unity of the Church it is enough to agree
concerning the doctrine of the Gospel and the administration of
the Sacraments” (Triglotta, p. 47) and with the Apology’s warning
against causing the Church to “fly apart into various schisms”
(Triglotta, p.185); therefore

We do respectfully memorialize Synod to adopt the following
theses as a sufficient basis for Lutheran unity and to submit them
as such to the other Lutheran bodies:

fellowship in which the truth is spoken in love (Eph. 4:1-16); and —

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