# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S363
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SINTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 363

atives of the sister synods in the Synodical Conference
{Common Confession constitutes “settlement of those doc-
troversies that were before the Church up to the time
ition of the Common Confession” (Minutes of Committee
al Unity, April 10, 1951); and

gas, The Constitution of the Synodical Conference pro-
at fellowship with another church body cannot be estab-
any one of its constituent synods without the consent of
od in the Synodical Conference; and
zas,’Two of the constituent synods of the Synodical Con-
e objected to the Common Confession as a settlement
differences between The Lutheran Church — Missouri
the American Lutheran Church (Wisconsin Synod
, 1951, p. 147; Norwegian Synod Report, 1951, p. 54); and
, The Central Regional Conference of the Northern
District is of the considered opinion that Part I and the
2 Part II” of the Common Confession are an insufficient
quate basis for church fellowship with the American
n Church; now, therefore, be it
ed, That the Central Regional Conference of the North-
ois District hereby requests The Lutheran Church — Mis-
d, in convention assembled in Houston, Tex., to recon-
lution 14 adopted by a majority of the Milwaukee Con-
(Proceedings, 1950, p. 585).

Tue Cenrrat RecionaL Pastorat CONFERENCE
NortTHeERN Iuiinors District
Watrter H. Rencstorr, Secretary

Reject “Common Confession”

gas, Our congregation holds firmly to the Scriptural doc-
practice of Old Missouri; and

, We feel it our duty, as Scripture says, in matters
to church union with other church bodies, to insist that
ectly joined together in the same mind and in the
nt” (1 Cor. 1:10); and
, We have studied the Common Confession and find
f not only in clarity as to its use as a basis for unity of
with the American Lutheran Conference, but also that
easure up to its necessary standard for use by laymen
concise, and Scriptural; and
» We find the Common Confession adopted in Mil-
‘Rot clearly defining and ruling out unscriptural doc-
teachings of the American Lutheran Conference on