# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1165
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582 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS
Wuereas, The addition to Resolution 14 (Milwa

tion Proceedings, DP. 585) indicates that the convention ; Convey, ©

aware of some deficiencies, Stating, e.g.: “Not
ones of the Scriptures are treated in the Common Cc,
* *urther study of future developments may sh pfession.»

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Our Confession and Petition
(Memorial 621 Point 2)
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we reject the Common Confession because it fails to ment
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leaves unsettled the doctri .
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the American Lutheran Church. wren ” our Synod and

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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 533

olved, That we urge all pastors, teachers, and laymen to
gprivately, in conference, and in adult Bible classes: the
ures as referred to in the Common Confession in its present
asking the Holy Ghost for our Savior’s sake to enlighten us
e teachings through His gracious Word, encouraging the
anbership to report their Scriptural findings to our Synod’s
Baity Committee in sufficient time to have them included in their
Bitien report to the next convention.
with regard to the Committee on Doctrinal Unity, Committee 3
mmmended, and Synod resolved: , .

Resolution 11

’ ‘Wnereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has had

Committee on Doctrinal Unity for many years; and

Wuereas, Widespread union movements in world Lutheranism

t the continuation of such a committee; therefore, be it

Resolved, That this convention authorize the appointment of

¥a-Committee on Doctrinal Unity for the next triennium; and be
t further

“J? Resolved, That “this committee be given the status of a stand-
ing committee and be so listed in paragraph 2.05 of the synodical
Handbook”; and that its duties “be. delineated and listed under
* Section H of Chapter II of the Handbook.”

Suspend Discussions with the
American Lutheran Church

Memorial 609 asked that we suspend the doctrinal discussions
with the American Lutheran Church until that body in convention
clearly and unequivocally has declared itself against unionism as
defined in the Brief Statement and has begun to put this principle
into practice.

Nore: This has been our position since 1939, and we are convinced
that we have shown with sufficient clarity that it is correct according
to the Scriptures. It will not be necessary to refer to the Sandusky
Resolutions, the quotation from the “Friendly Invitation,” the declaration
for “Selective Fellowship,” and the associations which the American
Lutheran Church has continued to maintain and new ones which it has
recently entered. ;

Re Fellowship with the American Lutheran Church
; (Memorial 622)

Wueneas, Synod in adopting the report of its convention com-
mittee No. 19 in 1929 “emphasized that future discussion” with
synods constituting the American Lutheran Church “be contingent
on the following two conditions: