# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S128
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128 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

things, seek to determine whether the applicant is apt to teach,
is able rightly to divide the Word of Truth, and is positive in his
confession of the true doctrine.

4.63 Application from Affiliated Church Bodies

Applications coming from pastors or candidates of theology
who are members of an affiliated church body and who have
previously given satisfactory evidence of their qualifications for
the ministry may be received without examination.

465 Certificates of Eligibility

Applicants who have satisfactorily passed their examina-
tions shall be given certificates of eligibility by the Examining
Committee.

No provisions exist at present to colloquize men from our own
circles who have had no satisfactory formal seminary education.

6. Finally, an increasing number of our laymen are desirous
of serving the church in a full-time capacity. The modern parish
program is becoming more complex, and it has been repeatedly
Suggested that there is a place in our larger congregations for
men, other than pastors or Christian day school teachers, who
wish to devote themselves entirely to church work. By opening
more opportunities for such service in the church we could
harness in a more practical and profitable manner the zeal and
devotion: of those who would like to enter into full-time church
work by way of colloquy.

7. In view of the increasing applications from members of
Synod for a colloquy for which no official synodical procedure
has been provided, and in order to enable laymen to devote
themselves to certain defined areas of the work of a Christian
congregation, your Committee suggests the adoption of the fol-
lowing resolutions:

II. A Statement of Policy Which Is to Govern Synod’s
Committee on Colloquies in Admitting Men to the Ministry
of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod

‘1. Applicants who seek admission to the ministry of our
church by colloquy may be grouped ‘into three classes:

a. Men who have completed their theological training in
churches outside of the Synodical Conference.

b. Men who have had partial training for the ministry either
at a theological Seminary or through the professional courses at
our teachers colleges.

c. Men who have had no theological training.

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