# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S524
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524 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

the amendment offered by Pastor A. T. Kretzmann merely wished
to declare that it desired to have the proposed resolutions of
Committee 3 discussed and voted on without change and did not
pass judgment on any document.”

“The question addressed by Pastor McLaughlin to the con-
vention relative to the action on the five doctrinal declarations in
Memorial 616 was referred to Committee 3.” (Daily Minutes.)

Committee 3 submitted the following report in answer to: the
question of Pastor McLaughlin:

Resolved, That we advise Pastor McLaughlin that he give his
congregation the asurance that Synod has again declared its doc-
trinal position by unanimously re-affirming its loyalty to the Holy
Scriptures, the Lutheran Confessions, and the Brief Statement.

Synodical Membership
in the National Lutheran Council
(Memorial 619)

Your Committee, having been appointed by the President in
accordance with a resolution passed at the 1945 District convention,
begs to submit the following report:

We have examined the resolutions passed relative to the Na-
tional Lutheran Council at the 1944 convention of Synod and re-
viewed the relationship obtaining since that time between Synod
and the National Lutheran Council; we have also studied the re-
vised constitution of the National Lutheran Council, and on the
basis of these things we respectfully recommend that the District
adopt the following resolution:

Wuereas, Synod in its 1944 convention declined to apply for
membership in the National Lutheran Council, because, “according
to the best information available,” this “would apparently involve
our Synod in unionistic principles and endeavors beyond a mere
co-operation in externals and thus violate Scriptural principles
which we are bound to observe”; and

Wuereas, The uncertainty underlying this resolution has since
been dissipated by the printing of the revised constitution of the
National Lutheran Council for the perusal of all; and

Wuereas, Provisions have been made in this constitution to
safeguard the doctrinal position of the constituent members as
specifically stated; and

Wuereas, In their respective constitutions, the participating
Lutheran church bodies accept the Holy Scriptures as the Word of

God and the only source, norm, and guide of Christian faith and
life; and