# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1989_S141
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5-25 To Report Decisions
A-—C of Commissions on
Adjudication and
Appeals
5-26 To Appoint Commis-
sions on Adjudication
and Appeals
5-29 To Provide for Uni-
form Drafting of Deci-
sions of Commission
on Adjudication and
Commission on
Appeals

5-30 To Increase Number

of Eligible Terms on
Synodical Commission
on Adjudication and
Commission on
Appeals

5-32 To Print Complete
Report of Commission
on Adjudication

5-68 To Delete Financial

Information from Sta-

tistical Report
5-82 To Consult on Bylaw
Changes
Action: Adopted (15).

STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION 141

Sufficiently provided for in
Bylaw 8.73

Review and evaluation in
process

Commission has authority
to require this

Review and evaluation in
process

Requested report printed

Information can be used in
a positive way to assist
congregations
Consultation included in
present process

expanded work and responsibility of the Commission on
Organizations; therefore be it

Resolved, That Bylaw 3.573 be amended to read:

3.573 Functions
The commission shall

a. gather-and-provide information, advieeand-tt-

erature-and counsel concerning eH organizations, beth

philosophies and

worldviews, about which pastors er and congregations

may make inquiry relative to eeremenies objectives, ten-
ets, programs, practices, or ebjeetives ceremonies;

b. seek to explain the Synod’s concerns to these or-
ganizations that are involved in religion and have un-
christian or anti-Christian features, with the goal of
persuading them to diseard-their-ebjectionable abandon
such features;

c. prepare and disseminate periodic reports concern-
ing new organizations, philosophies, and worldviews
changes within existing ergenizations-entities, and de-
velopments relative to erganizatiens the world religious
scene in general;

d. serve as a resource center for the Synod with ref-
erence to information on religious entities and world-
views ° at-6 RAIZaAtion eth °

on abla

essary study materials, and assist i

5 pastors and congre-

To Amend Bylaws for Commission on gations in providing counsel; and

* s e. assist the pastors and congregations of the Synod
Organizations in carrying out the policy of the Synod regarding fra-
RESOLUTION 5-25 ternal organizations as set forth elsewhere in the Bylaws.

Overture L5-87 (TB, p. 16) Action: Adopted (15).

Wuereas, Bylaw 3.573 no longer accurately reflects the