# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S402
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402 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

The teacher’s office inherent in the ministry.—In 193
Buszin wrote as follows concerning the office of the teacher.
auxiliary of the ministry is safe, inasmuch as it is sanctig
the Holy Spirit (Acts 6; 1 Tim. 3:8-13), and it is in the same
gory with all other auxiliaries of the church (deacons, eldé;
leaders). However, it differs from them in the commissig;
assignment, as the special teacher of the Lutheran school ‘isi
nitely called to ‘labor in the Word and doctrine,’ and ‘the
his service, being inherent in the public ministry and‘
mentary, not supplementary, to it is registered with tho
are to ‘be counted worthy of double honor’ (1 Tim. 5:17

Buszin concedes that the teacher’s office is not of divin
tution; it is not one that could not be separated from
gation without destroying an essential part of the co
In spite of this concession, Buszin asserts: “We must, ne
less, ever firmly maintain the commanding fact, which is the
trait of this service, that the functions of that auxiliary o
inherent in the public ministry of the Word. ... So whe:
whenever this auxiliary office of a special teacher within the
is abrogated, the functions of the office must again be ass
their entirety by the incumbent of the complete public ;
within the congregation.” 53 Buszin also emphasizes
teacher’s call is a divine call, that the teacher’s office is:
in the office of the ministry, and that the teacher is, th
an assistant to the pastor, not, however, an assistant

The call of the pastor and the teacher on the same:
In the Concordia Theological Monthly of February, 1936, H.
stated that the call of the pastor and of the teacher we
same level because the office of the Christian school teach
an auxiliary office of the holy ministry.55

The teacher a public servant of the Word.—In 193
Fehner delivered an essay at the Michigan District conv
the office of the teacher. He pointed out that although th
does not hold the entire office of the ministry and is not-t
appointed teacher and shepherd of the entire congreg:
he is a public servant of the Word, called especially
purpose by the congregation. He is an elder that labo’

52 P. T. Buszin, “Christian Education,” Lutheran School
LXXI (March, 1936), p. 307.

58 Ibid., pp. 302, 303.
84 Ibid., p. 304.

55 H. Strasen, “Die Lehre vom Beruf unter gegenwae!
haeltnissen,” Concordia Theological Monthly, VII (Feb., 1936),