# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S506
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506 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

IMMANUEL Ev. Luts. CONGREGATION
Town Rich, Matteson, Ii].
E. Hieser, Pastor :
: Martin Bruper. RAYMOND VOLLMER :
March 26, 1950» Epwin MarquarpT

REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH
Freeport, Itt.
Joun N. Sanner, President
Rosert V. Loewe, Recording Secretary
Rev. C. J. Scuutu, Pastor .

[637] :
Public Correction of Public Error
Wuereas, Our Synod has always held to the principle that
error publicly stated and defended must be publicly corrected
(ep., e. g., Lutheran Witness, 1919, p. 188; Lehre und Wehre, XXIV,
10, p. 289ff.) ; and
Wuereas, This principle is Scriptural (1 Tim. 5:20: “Them that
sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear”; Gal. 2:11ff.: When
Peter in public did not walk “uprightly according to the truth of
the Gospel,” Paul “withstood him to the face” and rebuked him
“before them all’); and
Wuereas, “He that teaches and lives otherwise than God’s
Word teaches profanes the name of God among us,” and therefore
sins grievously, giving offense; and
Wuereas, Christians who are guilty of such sin and repent
of it, should also then be anxious to counteract the evil effects of
their error, keeping God’s honor and glory uppermost in mind, and
not their own reputation before men; and
Wuereas, Any error in any point of Scripture teaching, in
either the so-called fundamental or non-fundamental doctrines, is
detrimental to the Christian faith and fellowship, eats “as doth
a canker,” 2 Tim. 2:17, “leaveneth the whole lump,” Gal. 5:9; and
Wnuergas, of late years there has been much confusion with
- regard: to this simple Scriptural principle;
Now, therefore, we respectfully request The Lutheran Church
— Missouri Synod, in. convention at Milwaukee, to declare that it
holds it to be a Scriptural principle that every error publicly
taught and propagated must be retracted and corrected as pub-
licly .and ‘as exterisively asits influence for evil may extend.
A. V. Kuster Pau. L. KrerzMann
Pau. G. Kocu G. H. Naumann
“Water M. Ave-Latuemant E: A. Laass
M. F. KretzMANN