# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S344
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344 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

standing of the Gospel to insist that each Christian or ¢
of Christians must work entirely alone or that each Chris
the Lord in his own self-chosen way. Such an attitud
confusion, suspicion, and poor stewardship. One of the
of the Gospel is to bring Christians to serve the Lord tog
the Lord’s way. LS

One Word— This fellowship of work can become a realits
One Mind when a fellowship of faith, confession, and 1
It is only when Christians confess the sam
are agreed to let the Word of God be authoritative and
in all matters of faith and life that a real fellowship of
result. God’s Word requires that Christians “stand fast.
spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the’
John 13:13-17; 17:18; Galatians 6:2; Matthew 28: 19; Lal
Romans 15: 26-27.
1 Corinthians, chs. 12—14; 16:1.
1 Pied 15:1-5; Ephesians 4:13-16; 2 Corinthians 6:1; P

ix. THE CHURCH AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN ORGANIZAT

Church The Lord has warned His disciples that
Under Cross this world stands, the Church will be under th

Christ’s name will be mocked by unbeliev
authority usurped by impostors within and without

As for the faithful members of the Church, the warninj d

Lord always applies: “If they have persecuted Me, they.
persecute you,” John 15:20. The Church as the company:
faithful witnesses will continue under bitter attack and
must endure grievous tribulation.

Church In the face of these onslaughts of the enemies
in Combat the Church must stand firm in the faith. It
than bear and suffer. It unmasks, condemns,
bats with the sword of the Spirit all religions and sects wii
or displace the redemption wrought by Jesus Christ by.
devices or efforts; all organizations and movements wi
‘to deprive God of His sovereignty; and all humanistic.‘
laristic philosophies which exalt the powers of man and‘t
give to God the glory that is due Him. m4

Church The Church must be alert to detect. su
in Witness Christian propaganda everywhere, even whel
pears in moralistic and pseudo-Christian
in those lodges and fraternal orders which explicitly or by
remove Christ from His position of mediatorship between!
man and thus deny the central teaching of Scriptures, thi