# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S392
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392 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS:

For this reason he stated that the teaching of the Word 9:
the part of the teacher was a part of the public
point of view was supported by the statement that, for ;
of His Word, God, in the first place, has instituted the
priesthood of believers (1 Peter 2:9), and, in the second
public ministry (oeffentliches Predigtamt) (1 Cor. 12:9;
Rom. 10:15; Heb. 5:4). Selle refers also to Article 14 of. thi
burg Confession. The spiritual priesthood has the aj
especially at home, and in addition privately, to teach:
of God. Except for cases of emergency the general o
Christian does not go beyond this. Everything that go
this, and as soon as it concerns the teaching of the W.
request and instead of the entire group, belongs to
ministry, which is then called a public office, because it is
that concerns a public service that has been assigned.25 §
the teacher’s office a branch office of the holy ministry.
out that the teacher has been placed under the supervisi
pastor in the history of the Lutheran Church becaus
correctly recognized that the teachers occupy a brancht:¢
the holy ministry.?¢

The teacher cannot be a lay delegate to synodical con
—In 1874 the question arose as to whether or not th
could be a lay delegate to the synodical convention. The
decided the following:

1. No District Synod is permitted to recognize a tede
a school or of a synodical institution as a lay delegate o
gregation.

2. This rule is to be incorporated in the by-laws of
stitution.

The reasons for the decision were the following: The,
were to appear as representatives of the Schulamt, or
office. Further consideration offered as a reason was
a congregation was in duty bound to be represented by
who was neither pastor nor teacher.?? It is clear that t
in this instance were not considered laymen.

The teacher’s office is a branch office of the holy m
In 1875 there appeared Dr. C. F. W. Walther’s Pastoralt
In this book Dr. Walther emphasized that a pastor should;
forget that the teacher also belongs to those who serve
that the teacher serves in an auxiliary office that is br

25 Ibid., p.132.
26 [bid., p. 138.
27 Proceedings, Mo. Synod, 16 (1874), p. 79.