# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S103
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THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS 103

in the Synod over some features of the call process which
appear to be discriminatory, bordering on the unethical;
therefore be it

Resolved, That the Commission on Theology and Church
Relations be directed to study the call process as it now exists
within Districts of the Synod; and be it further

Resolved, That the Commission on Theology and Church
Relations, on the basis of its study, recommend to the Synod in
convention in 1986 a standard operating procedure for the call
process within the Synod.

Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
Hickory, N.C.

James Hawn, President

Deborah Blinson, Secretary

Connor L. Corkran, Jr., Pastor

Identical or similar:

3-18B

Trinity, Hovleton. Hl. Peter Kurowski

To Identify As Not Normative
the CTCR Document “The Ministry:
Offices, Procedures, and Nomenclature”’

WHEREAS, The CTCR document entitled “The Ministry:
Offices, Procedures, and Nomenclature” has not been received
by the church in convention as normative: therefore be it

Resolved, That no policy of our Synod be based on this
report or its revisions until such time as such normative
consensus is reached in a synodical convention.

Board of Directors

Atlantic District

Ronald F. Fink, President
Richard E. Johnson, Secretary

3-20

To Reaffirm Stand on Israel
and Millennialists

WHEREAS, The anti-Scriptural notion that our Lord Jesus
Christ will establish a thousand-vear kingdom of peace upon
this earth, restore the temple in Jerusalem, and rule from a
throne in Jerusalem is misleading many fundamentalists,
evangelicals, and charismatics to declare that it is God's will
that Israel should possess land which has been owned by
Palestinian Arabs for centuries: and

WHEREAS, Leading U.S. fundamentalists, evangelicals.
charismatics, and Jews worshiped together in Washington,
ID.C., in a “Solidarity Sabbath” and adopted a declaration
which said, “We see in the restoration of Israel to its Biblical
homeland the further unfolding of God's plan... . The
establishment of modern Israel is the fulfillment of Bible
prophecy... . We believe that Israeli settlements in disputed
territories are legitimate within the framework of the Camp
David accords and fall within the historical boundaries of
Biblical Israel. ... We are prepared to walk together as God's
covenanted people because we are agreed on important funda-
mentals of our faith. We call on the faithful to thank God for
this opportunity of spiritual comradeship” (The Christian
News Encyclopedia, p. 883: Moody Monthly, February 1983:
Religious Broadcasting, January 1983): and

WHEREAS, The Israel-first millennialists can cause great
harm to our nation and the entire world if they can convince
the U.S. that the Bible teaches that Israel still has a divine
right to land owned by Palestinian Arabs and therefore the
U.S. should send billions of dollars worth of arms to Israel; and

WHEREAS, An orthodox church body, while it does not take

sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict, should deplore the injustices
committed by both sides; therefore be it

Resolved. That The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
reaffirm that millennialism and the notion that Israel today
still has a divine right to take over land owned by Arabs for
centuries is contrary to the Bible and the Lutheran Con-
fessions: and be it further

Resolved.That the LCMS reaffirm that today God's “chosen
people” are all Christians (1Peter 2:9) and riot any one par-
ticular race. nation, tribe. color, sex, etc.

Trinity Lutheran Church
New Haven, Mo.
Orville Meyer. Secretary

3-21

To Request the CTCR
to Study the ‘‘End Times”’

WHEREAS. A predominate emphasis in radio and television
religion programming concerns the second coming of Christ,
the tribulation. the millennium, the time and circumstances of
the rapture, etc.: and

WHEREAS, Much of this preaching is unscriptural and
speculative: and

WHEREAS. Many of our people are thus confused and misled
by a “this-world kingdom” and given false hopes about a
“second chance for those not raptured”: therefore be it

Resolved. That the Florida-Georgia District in convention
memorialize the Synod to direct the CTCR to make a thorough
Scriptural study of the end times (eschatology) and to publish it
to the church.

Florida-Georgia District
L. Lloyd Behnken. President
Gerald W. Seaman. Secretary

3-22

To Promote Full Personhood
of Women in the Church

WHEREAS, A growing number of our sisters are able to
express the hurt of the dominated: and

WHEREAS, God created women with full personhood and
intergrity no less than men (Gen. 1): and

WHEREAS, In the New Testament Jesus, as well as others,
gave women prominence in the Kingdom (John 20:11-18; Acts
1: and Acts 18:25-26): therefore be it

Resolved. That the Synod in convention acknowledge the
spirit of male condecision over against women as sin in its
midst: and be it further

Resolved. That we seek in our use of language. our conduct.
our attitudes. and our policies to prornote male female mutual-
ity in the life and ministry of the church.

University Lutheran Church
Whitewater, Wis.

Glen Anderson, President
Jim Hofer, Secretary

Wm. Bloom, Jr., Pastor

3-23

To Support a Consistent
Prolife Policy Within the LCMS

WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod through-
outits history has opposed the sin of abortion as contrary tothe