# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S406
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

406 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

2. The teacher, like the pastor, is subject to the sup
of Synod. :

3. Candidates for the office of pastor or teacher are sul
conscientious examination. :

4. The teacher is to be installed in his office in a pub
solemn service.

5. The teacher’s office is a part of the one church off}
is divinely instituted, the public ministry, and partakes
essence. It may be termed a “branch office” or an “auxiliary

6. The teacher is an assistant of the pastor, but not:
sistant pastor.

7. The teacher is under the official supervision of the:
because the teacher occupies a branch office of the public

8. The teacher is not a layman; he belongs to the cle:

9. One view held that the Lutheran teacher had :a:
calling —a spiritual office and a civic or worldly office..

10. One view held that the teacher’s position is in part
and in part pastoral.

11. The office of the teacher is a public church offi
teacher is an assistant of the pastor and a servant of the W
12. The call of the teacher by the Christian congregat
a divine call; like the call of the pastor, the teacher’s
ordinarily a lifelong call.

13. The establishment of the teacher’s office in the cong
is a matter of Christian liberty. The congregation creates
position and calls someone else besides the pastor to
children God’s Word, to give them Christian training,
perform other duties.

14. The teacher’s office is a divine office, not in the se
God has established it in exactly this form, but because
is a part and a branch of the public ministry, which God:
and ordain, and because God calis the incumbent thre
congregation. :

IV. Specific Problems on the Status of the Teache

On the basis of our doctrinal and historical study, we
examine a number of specific problems related to the.s'
the teacher.

1. What is a divine call?

The term “divine call” is nowhere found in Scriptu®
simply an ecclesiastical term which in our Synod.
a divinely instituted office dealing with the proclamati