# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S433
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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES

PAGE
To Capitalize References toGod ................. 84
To Support Outdoors Ministry Within the
Synod 0.000 eee eens 84
(Also 2-34B to O)
To Emphasize Youth Evangelism ................ 84
To Strengthen Evangelism to Young Adults ...... 85
To Encourage Broadcasting of Lutheran
Services 2.00... eects 85
To Revise CPH Bylaws ................0..2.0005- 86
To Give Synodical Accreditation to Lutheran
Elementary Schools ............... 000000 ce eee 86
(Also 2-40B)
To Publish Scholarly Works ..................... 86

To Encourage All Schools to Celebrate
Black History Month ..............0000000 eee eee 87
To Retain and Use the 1943 Catechism in its

Present Format .............. 000 cece eee eee 87
To Update 1943 Translation of Luther’s Small

Catechism and Its Exposition ................... 87
To Change Bylaw 11.23 (Editors) ................ 88

To Provide Small-Group Bible Study
Opportunities and Materials ..................... 88

To Prepare Materials on Abortion ............... 88
3. Theology and Church Relations
Report of Commimssion on Theology and
Church Relations ................0.000 cece eens 89
Report of Commission on Doctrinal Review ...... 98
Report of Commission on Organizations ......... 98
Report on Lutheran Council in the U.S.A. ........ 99
Theological Concerns
To Base Resolutions on Scripture ................ 99

To Study Public Policy Statements of the Synod
Regarding the Confessional Character of the

Lord’s Supper ........... 0.00 c cee cece eee eens 99
To Encourage Uniform Practices in Celebrating

Holy Communion ............... 0000 e ee eens 100
To Define ‘Close Communion” ................. 100
To Reject the CTCR Report: The Ministry ....... 100

To Continue CTCR’s Study of the Ministry ...... 102

To Request Another Study of Ministry .......... 102

To Study the Call Process .................2.055 102
(Also 3-18B)

To Identify As Not Normative the CTCR Docu-

ment “The Ministry; Offices, Procedures and

Nomenclature” ............. 0000 c cece eee eee 103

To Reaffirm Stand on Israel and

Millennialists ................ 0000 e cece eee eee ee 103

To Request CTCR to Study the “End Times” .... 103

To Promote Full Personhood of Women

inthe Church ................0 00 cee cece eee ee 103

To Support a Consistent Prolife Policy Within

the LCMS ......... 0.00. c cece cece tenes 103

To Study the Role of Women in Worship ........ 104

To Adjust Position on Woman Suffrage ......... 104

To Return to Our Former Scriptural Position

on Woman Suffrage ................0000 00 e eee 104
(Also 3-26B and C)

To Continue the Option of Women’s Suffrage .... 105
(Also 3-27B to F)

To Encourage Women’s Participation ........... 105

To Open All Offices to Women .................. 106

To Request CTCR to Review Women’s Suffrage

in Conjunction with Our Two Seminary

Faculties ........ 0.00 ccc eee eee eee eens 106
To Assess the Right and Responsibility of

Christians to Address the Theological, Moral,

and Ethical Implications of Nuclear, Biological,

and Chemical Warfare
To Define and Implement the “Exclusive Use of
Doctrinally Pure Agenda, Hymnbooks, and
Catechisms” as a Condition of Membership in the
LCMS (Constitution VI, 4) ..................00005 106
To Practice Discipline

3-34
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3-64A
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3-81A
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3-84A

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To Strengthen Synod’s System of Doctrinal
Review 2.0.0.0... terete 107
To Produce a Twentieth Century Formula of
Concord 22.0... ete eens 107
To Repudiate Luther’s Treatise on Jews ......... 108
To Clarify Our Position on Anti-Semitism ....... 108
To Celebrate the 500th Luther Jubilee
Properly ........ 0.0. c cece tee e eee 108
To Deal with Evolutionists ..................... 109
To Deal with Atheistic Communism ............ 109
To Support Capital Punishment ................ 109
To Deal with Gambling ....................00-. 110
To Deal with Liberals on LCMS Clergy Roster .. 110
To Deal with Divorced Clergymen .............. 110
To Deal with Homosexuals in the Churches ..... 110
To Study Christian—Non-Christian
Marriages ........ 0... cece eee eee 111
To Warn Against Satanic Activities in Our
Modern Society .............00 ccc cece ee 111

To Publish an Updated Systematic Theology .... 111
(Also 3-48B)
To Cease Publication of “Ordination: Human Rite

or Divine Ordinance” ................-.0 000 vues 112
To Establish Timetable for CTCR Documents ... 112
To Include in Bylaws an Appeals Procedure for
Doctrinal Materials Already Published ......... 113
To Establish Scharlemann Foundation ......... 118
To Deal with Humanistic Futurism ............. 113
To Reject Anti-Scriptural Universalism ......... 114
Fellowship
To Restore Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with
The American Lutheran Church ................ 114
To Redeclare Fellowship with ALC ............. 114
To Establish Fellowship with Other
Lutherans ........ 0.0.0. ec ceeeeee eee 114
To Declare Fellowship with All Lutherans ...... 114
(Also 3-64B and C)
To Further Relationships with Other Lutherans
Within the Florida-Georgia District ............. 115
To Continue in Altar and Pulpit Fellowship
with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Canada 2.0... cect tenes 115
To Promote Fellowship ................00.000005 115
To Seek Confessional Lutheran Agreement,
Fellowship, and Cooperation ................05. 116
To Maintain Our Synodical Principle of
Congregational Responsibility .................. 116
To Distinguish Between Altar and Pulpit
Fellowship ..........0. 000 c cece eee tenes 116
To Designate Different Levels of Fellowship
Decisions .......... 00. c cece eee teens 117
To Work Towards External Unity in the Body of
Christ 2.00.00. c cents 117
LCUSA
To Terminate LCUSA Membership ............. 117
(Also 3-81B and C)
To Withdraw from LCUSA ..................5.. 117

(Also 3-82B)
To Discontinue Comity Agreements with
LCUSA 0. ooo ct tenes 118
To Form a New Inter-Lutheran Association
Replacing LCUSA
(Also 3-84B to H)
To Form a New Lutheran Association to Replace
LCUSA 2.0. ccc ccc center neees 118
To Work Toward New Inter-Lutheran Agency ...
To Continue Support for the Lutheran Council
in the U.S.A. 0... 119
(Also 3-87B to I)
To Encourage Participation in the Lutheran

Council 0.0.0.0 6 6c teenies 119
To Increase Involvement in the Lutheran
Council in the U.S.A. ....000.0..0.0 0000s 120