# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S354
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354 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

The work of such Concord Committees needs supervisj
critical review. This would make it advisable to have a
of Review. The duty of this Board of Review would be to
vise the work of the Concord Committees, and to be respon
for a thoroughgoing critical examination of reports of the
Committees. This reviewing of reports should preferably
of two phases. The first is that the Board of Review eri
examine a report and get necessary changes made by the Co
Committee concerned. The second phase is that the report;;
examination and emendation by the Board of Review, bes
all pastors and congregations of Synod for examination, eri
and suggestions for improvements, such criticism and sugg,
to be turned over to the Concord Committee concerned fo:
sideration and possible adoption. After a report of a C
Committee has gone through this procedure the first time, it
be wise to repeat the procedure; for it is extremely importan¢
our pastors and congregations have confidence in the work 4
by the proposed Commission on Scriptural Peace in Doctrin,
Practice.

It would seem wise to set up a Council within the Comr
to serve as an extra check against the human tendency to deg
Scripture of free and full opportunities to restore Scriptural: p
in doctrine and practice. The task of the Council would ’]
examine reports of Concord Committees after these reports
been given final approval by the Board of Review. Two ;
should be checked by the Council: 1) Is the report Scri
throughout? 2) Is the report adequate as a document to be
in restoring Scriptural peace on the issue concerned? If the
is found to be satisfactory, the Council would then submit
the Commission with a recommendation that the report
proved and recommended to Synod for adoption.

The Commission would then take up the report for con
tion and action, either approving it and recommending it to
for adoption or referring it back to the Concord Committ
cerned.

In order to co-ordinate the various activities of the
sion, it may be advisable to set up a small Executive Co

While the Concord Committees, the Board of Re
Council, and the Executive Committee should preferably 3
ited to about five to nine members each, it would seem ,
that the Commission have a larger number of members i
tion, including the President of Synod, the Vice-Pres
Synod, all District Presidents, and a goodly number of
at large consisting of pastors, teachers, and laymen.

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