# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S412
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412 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

7.05), thus establishing the position as a regular vocation: w;
ministry of the Word, meriting a lifetime call; and '

Wuereas, (5) The Diploma of Vocation authorized:
body specifies that the teacher is “elected to the sacred.
a servant of the Word”; specifies that his office is “part of:
ministry at this place”; authorizes and obligates the tea
instruct and train the children in his charge diligently .g
fully in the Word of God . . . to accord them also a C
cation and training in the common school branches. :
under the supervision of the pastor and the board of e
and, by the grace of God, to do everything possible:
sphere of his calling toward the promotion of the scho
the general advancement of the kingdom of Christ,
and generally”; and obligates the congregation “to r
teacher as a servant of the Word”; and

Wuereas, (6) The order for the installation of
authorized by this body and included in the Lutheran Ags
the significant paragraph: “Whereas, then, by divine’.
thou hast recognized in this call the voice of God and
to enter upon the duties of thine important office, for
performance whereof thou wilt be held accountable to God

service in the Church shall, after having made application
bership in Synod, be installed in accordance with acéey
theran forms for that purpose and shall be solemnly pl
the Scriptures as the inspired and inerrant Word of God
Symbolical Books of the Lutheran Church as a true exp
the Scriptures”; and
Whereas, (8) The constitutions of the several co
of this body do specifically state regarding their pastors
ers that the only valid reasons for their removal froma
“persistent adherence to false doctrine, a scandalous life
neglect of official duties”; and
Wuereas, (9) This body recognizes all regularly
installed parochial school teachers as “advisory membe
(Handbook, Constitution, Article V.B.5) and subjects thi
same supervision and disciplinary measures as pastors anc
to them the same protection as to pastors (Handbook, C
Article III, 7.5); therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Syn
the status of the parochial school teacher as follows: .. .
1. The regularly called parochial school teacher, who’