# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S366
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366 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS |

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1953 Convention Take No Action on

“Common Confession,” Part II

Since Part II of the so-called Common Confession :}
been in our hands long enough for sufficient study before
date on which overtures are accepted for print, on or
April 8, 1953, be it therefore

Resolved, That we respectfully petition the 1953 conve A
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod to take no act
Part II of the Common Confession.

Tue LuTHERAN Unrty C
oF THE SouTH DaxKotTa

J. R. SHEpparp, Secre

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Our Confession and Petition

We herewith present for your earnest and praye:
sideration
Our Confession and Petition
Bound by the clear Word of God, 1 Cor. 1:10; Eph. 4:3;
historic Confessions of the Lutheran Church to which all
of Synod are obligated, and by the Brief Statement of thet
trinal Position of the Missouri Synod —a faithful confes; 5]
the teachings of Holy Scripture and the Missouri Synod, we é
1. We reject the Presidency’s report of the Adviso:
mittee on Doctrine and Practice of August 15, 1951, be
surrenders the Scriptural confession of our Synod and“é
Iowan errors heretofore properly rejected by the Missouri
— on the Church, the Last Things, Antichrist, and Open Qu
2. Together with two sister synods of our Synodical Co
we reject the Common Confession because it fails to mi
leaves unsettled, the doctrinal differences between our 'S
the American Lutheran Church.
3. We reject the unretracted “A Statement” issued in
in 1945, because it champions unscriptural teaching and

For the reasons stated we request Synod

1) To reject the report of the Advisory Committee on.
and Practice in its present form,

2) To reconsider and set aside the majority. action
waukee Convention regarding the Common Confession,

3) To resolve according to the Word of God the issu