# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S385
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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 385

care of specific endeavors within Christian life and service.
cally all such endeavors might well be the work of the
Practically, the Church may find it difficult, if not im-
to deal with all these matters. Groups of Christians may,
band together to deal with them. Such causes should
pproval, either direct or tacit, of the congregations of an
the District or Synod. Such approval implies that the
ons are delegating the discharge of such a desirable func-
-group of Christians within the several churches. With the
ion of the discharge of the function there is also delegated
to call the person or persons who may be required for this
ork.

When a congregation calls a parochial school teacher, it
to him a portion of the public ministry of the Word.

teacher has a divine call; his duties are specified in the call
iclude a wide range of activities beyond the work in the
n. The teacher is not a pastor; he is, however, a “minister,”
it of the Word in the congregation, and might well be
ted a “minister of Christian education.” He is not an “epis-
ma “presbyteros” in the sense that he is placed over an
ock or a local congregation. His work, however, partakes
ce of the duties of those whom Scripture calls “episko-
“presbyteroi.” The teacher is not a layman; he is

arning the status of the teacher that have been made in
ublications of the Church and by leaders of the Mis-
at selected time intervals. This section does not attempt
how the principles enunciated were applied in the
tions of Synod.

erences used are indicated in the footnotes to this sec-
uotations and summaries are not exhaustive, but
selection from the materials on the status of the teacher.
however, that nothing of primary importance has been
in this presentation.

‘in the first Constitution of the Missouri Synod. —In
stitution of the Missouri Synod the teachers were

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