# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1058
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

324 PARISH EDUCATION

Christian education” and therefore is properly classified under the
official categories used by our Government — “ministers of
Gospel” and “ministers of religion.” These designati
properly applied to those who are officially appointed to similar
Positions.

Such a call is a divine call since it embraces a function of the
public ministry of. the Word, is issued by the congregation, ang is
concerned primarily with the teaching of God’s Word. Accordingly
the regularly called parochial school teacher belongs to the clergy

of the Church.

The parochial school teacher who has been trained
teachers’ colleges or has the equivalent qualifications bo
spect to character and professional training (the formal colloquy
is the synodical procedure for establishing this equivalence) is,
upon his acceptance of a valid call, inducted into his office by the
solemn rite of “installation.”

Because the parochial school teacher performs a basic and
important part of the public ministry of the Word, he belongs to
that class of elders who labor in Word and doctrine and who are
to be accounted worthy of “double honor” (1 Tim. 5:17), The
regularly called teachers are “advisory members of Synod.”
are expected to attend and participate in the District synodical con-
ventions and, through their elected representatives, in the general
conventions of Synod. They are also expected to attend the regular
synodically authorized teachers’ conferences. Their names are to
appear in the official roster of Synod as printed in the Lutheran
Annual under the heading “Teachers of Missouri Synod — Men,
Ministers of Christian Education.” © ,

2. The properly appointed woman teacher in a Lutheran school
is also a participant in the public ministry of the Word and should
be respected as such. She should have qualifications similar to
those of the regular male teacher, with respect to both faith and
character and professional training and competence. Hers is a
sacred calling, differing in its scope from the call of the male teacher
or pastor, since she is subject to the restrictions imposed upon the
members of her sex by Scripture (1 Cor. 14:34 and 1 Tim. 2: 11, 12).
Her calling may also differ in tenure, since she is free to withdraw

from her professional responsibilities to enter the estate of matri-
mony.

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Women teachers are not advisory members of Synod. They
are, however, expected to participate in the regular teachers’ con-
ferences and are included in the official roster of Synod as printed
in the Lutheran Annual under the heading of “Teachers of Mis-
souri Synod — Women.” i ,

PARISH EDUCATION 325

orial on the Status of the Lutheran High School Teacher
oe as, (1) Our Lutheran high schools are essentially
” extensions of the educational program of the elementary

y
a (2) As such they teach and apply the doctrines and

44. tices enjoined in God’s Word and the Lutheran Confessions to
“4s students in precisely the same manner and with the same
re ives in view as the parish schools; and
oe cneas (3) Such an advanced program of education cannot
ord in arily be operated by a single local congregation, but must be
~atablished, owned, and operated by a group of local congregations
este . ose of performing an important aspect of the public
for at . namely the systematic proclamation and application of
renee of God to the Church’s youth beyond confirmation
eas (4) The teachers of the Lutheran high schools are
chosen by the participating congregations in an orderly manner
through properly constituted and responsible boar . re
charged with the performance of this aspect or prane “ ©
public ministry in behalf of these congregations; therefore be i

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod define
the status of the Lutheran high school teacher as follows:

1. A properly called or appointed Lutheran high school teacher
who has already been approved according to the regulations °
Synod (either by graduation from a synodical teac os ro cee
or through preparing for and passing a colloquy arranged yy om
of the teachers’ colleges) shall have the same status “ we a
have if serving as a parish school teacher and shall e

in the official roster of Synod. ; .
aan A properly called or appointed Lutheran high school feacher
who has already been approved according to the regulations oO
Synod (either by graduation from a synodical theological senmnary
or through preparing for and passing a regular synodic co oq y
as a pastor) shall retain his eligibility to serve as a pes Fane
shall be so listed in the official roster of Synod. He sha no we
required to meet any further synodical standards of training, us
it shall be the duty of the high school board, through its prineip ,
to assure themselves of his competence to carry on Christian edu-
cation on the secondary level.

3. A teacher in one of our Lutheran high schools who has not
yet met the synodical requirements as a teacher (or a pastor)
should be held, as part of his initial agreement or contract, to
arrange for, and enter upon, systematic preparation for a colloquy,
under the guidance of the principal, using the opportunities fur-