# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S132
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To Honor and Serve the Aging
RESOLUTION 1-01A

Report 1-03 (CW, pp. 21—25)

WHEREAS, The average human life span continues to
lengthen; and

WHEREAS, God places no mandatory retirement age
on either faith or its fruits; and

WHEREAS, The role and value of older people in the
church urgently needs fuller recognition and refine-
ment; therefore be it

Resolved, That we thank God for increasing the
earthly longevity of His redeemed; and be it further

Resolved, That we encourage our congregations to
become increasingly aware of this growing segment of
our membership and society, and utilize the largely
untapped wealth of experience and availability of the
many talents of these our sisters and brothers in Christ;
and be it finally to

Resolved, That we ask the Board for Social Ministry
Services to continue to provide leadership and ask the
appropriate synodical boards to continue to assist in
this important endeavor.

Action: Adopted as amended (3).

(Amendment: insertion of reference to Board for Social
Ministry Services in the final resolve.)

To Reaffirm Inter-Lutheran
Cooperation in Social Ministry

RESOLUTION 1-02
Overtures 1-29A—B (CW, p. 35)

WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
has enjoyed the fruits of inter-Lutheran cooperation in
social ministry for many years; and ,

WHEREAS, The formation of a new church structure
by the AELC, ALC, and LCA will produce changes
which may raise questions related to inter-Lutheran
Cooperation in social ministry programs; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church—Missouri
ynod, in convention assembled, reaffirm the desira-
bility of continued inter-Lutheran cooperation in social
Ministry; and be it further
Resolved, That efforts be made to devise and
strengthen inter-Lutheran and/or inter-Christian re-
lationships that prove to be feasible and helpful in the
implementation of programs of social ministry; and be
it further

Resolved, That in the exercise of such cooperation

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RESOLUTIONS
1. MISSIONS, EVANGELISM, AND SOCIAL MINISTRY

the confessional integrity of The Lutheran Church—
Missouri Synod, and practices founded on such in-
tegrity, be preserved; and be it finally

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod support such inter-Lutheran cooperation in social
ministry on the national, District, and local levels.

Action: Adopted (5).

(The word “Synod” in the final resolve was changed to
“national” at the direction of the Chair. An amendment to
substitute “God-pleasing” for “feasible” and to change the first
resolve to read “closely examine before reaffirming the
desirability...” failed to carry.)

To Reduce Full-time
Professional Church Worker Burnout
and to Continue Efforts to Minimize
and Counteract This Danger

RESOLUTION 1-03A
Report 1-06 (CW, p. 30); Overture 1-31 (CW, p. 36)

WHEREAS, Ever-increasing stress accentuates the
danger of burnout for full-time professional church
workers and can result in increased individual/family
problems (including clergy divorce), worker/people
alienation, and increased resignations from office; and

WHEREAS, The healing professions today recognize
the importance of a holistic approach to health, stress-
ing the importance of preventive medicine in addition to
crisis medicine; and

WHEREAS, Our Synod has a sizable investment in
and concern for the good stewardship of the talents
entrusted to it in the lives and training of its workers;
and

WHEREAS, There is limited administrative staff to

Chairman Albert Marcis of Committee 1

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