# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1180
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INTERSYNODICAL AND. DOCTRINAL MATTERS 661

To foster Lutheran participation in ecumenical movements;
‘o develop a united Lutheran approach to responsibilities
ions and education; and

@:‘The Lutheran World Federation may take action on behalf
mber churches in such matters as one or more of them
amit to it.
statement of doctrine in Article II can be regarded as
confession of true Lutheranism. However, when we explore
estion of membership in the Lutheran World Federation,
cumbent upon us to determine the extent to which these
gated Lutheran church bodies subscribe to the confession in.
le I, in faith as well as in practice.
Are we to assume that large church ‘organizations which in
past emphasized their “unconfessional” character dan promptly
fgansform themselves into abiding “confessional” Lutherans by
gigning a document?
4;.What is to be our attitude to the documented statements and
_ actions of individuals, groups, and entire church bodies within the
Lutheran World Federation who manifest a disruptive divergence
in-regard to
: a, the inspiration of Scriptures
-b. predestination
‘¢. justification
d. grace (sola gratia)
e. chiliasm
f. millennialism
g. the Church
h. syncretism
i, unionism ;
j. indifference to purity of doctrine
k. an unwillingness to conduct free conferences which could
lead to doctrinal unity?

The Church of Sweden has been one of the chief protagonists
of the organization of the Lutheran World Federation. A member
of that Church was a recent Federation president. The Church of
Sweden claims to be Lutheran. It has signed the constitution of
the Lutheran World Federation. How can it reconcile this action
with its pulpit and altar fellowship with the Church of England?
Can we have confidence in the Church of Sweden that it really
means what it says when it signed the constitution of the Lutheran
World Federation? ,

At the opening service of the Hannover Conference last year
practically every representative of member churches in the Lu-
theran World Federation participated in a joint Communion service.