# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S348
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

480 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

persistent adherents of false doctrine
Scripture.

“3. Because the Scriptural principles governing church fell
ship govern also public prayer and prayer fellowship, Synod ring
any assertion which condones public joint prayer with Christians
who persistently advocate false doctrine.

“4, Synod holds that the errors referred to in Points 1, 2 and
if persistently advocated, are divisive of church fellowship, Ron
16:17-18; Titus 3:10; Matt. 7:15.

“5. Since every doctrine or teaching of Holy Scripture is clearly
and directly taught in a specific passage or passages, Synod holds
that to be ‘apt to teach’ within Synod one must be able to expound
the Scriptural teaching which prohibits church fellowship with all
persistent errorists, Christian or non-Christian, on the basis of
such passages as directly forbid such fellowship.”

(Signed) (Rev.) W. F. Rotr, St. James, Minn.

Signature attested by (Rev.) H. D. MENnsInG
Tinley Park, IIL, April 5, 1950

is in itself forbidden by

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Issues Raised by “A Statement” — President to Exercise
Doctrinal Discipline

Wuereas, The “Agreement” entered into by the President of
Synod with the signers of “A Statement” has had the effect of
keeping those who still uphold the former official doctrinal posi-
tion of Synod busy studying and correcting the material submitted
by the President, while the signers of “A Statement,” unhindered
by the officials of Synod, continue to uphold and carry out the
unscriptural principles advocated by “A Statement”; and

Wuereas, The President of Synod has again and again appointed
to key positions in Synod those who uphold the unscriptural prin-
ciples of “A Statement”; now therefore be it

Resolved, That we petition Synod to put an end to this in-
tolerable situation and to state in plain and- unequivocal words
what it regards as the teaching of Scripture in the issues raised
by “A Statement”; and be it furthermore

Resolved, That we petition Synod to declare that it will not
tolerate the contrary teaching and practice in its midst; and be
it furthermore “

Resolved, That we petition Synod to remind all synodical
Presidents of their solemn duty diligently to observe that the
teaching and practice of all professors, pastors, and officers of Synod