# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1157
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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 521

arel The Church's expectancy of its Lord’s return is also
‘griamph a joyous hope: the Bridegroom who will return has
even now made the Church’s life the evening before
e feast. This solemnly joyous expectancy frees the Church from
gole and desperate concern with things earthly and temporal; it
3 akes the Church free to act spontaneously according to the
“gromptings of the love that is the pulse beat of its faith. Despite
“gil the seeming triumphs of Satan, the Church possesses for its
‘work in the world a serene courage and an undisturbed vision and
assurance of victory. “In all these things we are more than con-

“querors through Him that loved us.”
Ephesians 1:3-14: Romans 8: 28-39; John 10:27-28; Luke 12:32.
Ephesians 2: 19-22; Colossians 3:1-2; Luke 12: 42-48.

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Mark 12: 12 M. in hol
° > Matthew 1 . Y love
Ephesians 6: 10-19: R 6: 24-28; 2 Thessalonians 2 1-12 Luke 21:28; Matthew 25: 1-13; 1 Corinthians 7: 29-31; Romans 8: :
Galatians 1:8-9. 9 P omans 1:18—2:16; 1 Corinthians 1 ° 31-39; Revelation 22. A
7: 21~27, + « Corinthians 6 14-18; Matthew 18:15 Bee
. — ; 6: 24;

(1) Church

in Eternity bers that ; :

x. TH,
me CHURCH AND THE WORLD TO COME
e Church in all its activi

Index

[The Index is designed to underline the essential unity of Parts I
and Ii of the Common Conresston and to facilitate reference. A capital
Roman numeral followed by an Arabic numeral refers to section and

aph of Part I; a lower-case Roman numeral followed by an Arabic

numeral refers to section and paragraph of Part II.]

Altar, family, iv, 4
Antichrist, sign of Christ’s return,
XII, 2; Roman Papacy, XII, 2

Baptism, V, 5; in B. God adopts
men as His children, V, 5;.in B.
God gives men benefits of
Christ’s redemption, V, 5; B.
the washing of regeneration and
newness of life, V, 5; infants
should be baptized, V, 5; its
promises apply also to little chil-
_dren, V, 5

Bible in education, vi, 2; God’s in-
errant Word verbally inspired,
vi, 2. See Scripture, Means of
Grace

Christians, duty of, to unite in local
congregations, IX, 3; duties of,
with regard to labor, v, 2

Church, IX; all believers constitute
the Church, IX, 1; Jesus Christ
its Head, IX, 1; through means of
grace called together and united,
IX, ‘1; all members possess all
rights and prerogatives set forth
in God’s Word, IX, 2; believers
need no human mediator, IX, 2;
Ch.’s commission to preach Gos-
pel and administer Sacraments,
IX, 3; unbelievers in local con-
gregations do not nullify power
of God’s Word, IX, 3; Christ. has

not promised earthly reign to His
Ch., IX, 4; Christ’s Ch. a kingdom
of the cross until Judgment,

in Time embers also that Children, rearing of, responsibility
the new world in the midst it is the beginning of of family, iv, 3 IX, 4; sustained only by His
Christ, salvation in Him alone, i, 1; promise, [X, 4; its duty to be

e Church’s life ig marked by an alert

promises to be with Church to
end of world, ii, 1; sends His
Spirit to dwell in Ch. forever,
ii, 1; has promised to grant what-
soever Ch. needs and asks, ii, 1;
Christ-centered education, vi, 3;

faithful to Christ and His Word,
IX, 5; to be steadfast in its con-
fession, IX, 5; to avoid and com-

bat error, IX, 5; to mold its prac- .

tice to conform with Christ’s
teachings, IX, 5; may not con-

tions b : and strivin
actio y the inescapable and just jud 8, and measures all its ac- in education, vi, 3 done error, IX, 5; may not have
ms. Such a life cannot Sment of Christ upon those Christ’s Second Coming, Antichrist pulpit fellowship or co-operation
with e g individuals or chur

the sign of, XII, 2; Roman Papacy
the Antichrist, XII, 2

bodies, IX, 5; will endure until