# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S552
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552 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

Regarding: “A Statement”

Memorial 614 stated on page 388:
The Doctrinal Errors of A Statement of 1945

This document became public doctrine in the Missouri Synod
as long ago as 1945. With the President of The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod the undersigned congregation holds that this docu-
ment contains doctrinal aberrations which are in themselves divi-
sive of fellowship. For a listing of the false doctrines in A State-
ment see Memorial 614 of the undersigned congregation in the
1950 Proceedings, p. 605.

We respectfully urge Synod to repudiate and reject the
“Agreement” made with the signers of A Statement, since that
“Agreement” permits the unretracted false doctrines in A State-
ment to stand side by side with the truth within our fellowship,
the truth by a formal resolution of Synod, the error by a lack of
God-pleasing action against it, contrary to 1Cor.5:6,7 (cf. Gal.
5:9; 1Tim.5:20; Titus 1:11-13), and to specifically reject the
errors in that document and to require a disavowal and rejection
of those errors on the part of all the signers. For additional proof
of the fact that the errors of A Statement still exist and live on
in our fellowship, also in unretracted books, District Proceedings,
uncorrected Lutheran Witness articles, and in other articles appear-
ing within our fellowship, see especially Proceedings of the 1950
convention of Synod, pp. 587—588, 590—597, 600—604, 609—613,
622—623, 629, 643—644, 647—651, and the columns of the American
Lutheran magazine.

Tantry Ev. LuTHERAN CHURCH, Creve, Iu.
W. R. Devert, President
H. F. Prerensrink, Secretary
A. T. KretzMann, Pastor

Committee 3 also considered Unprinted Memorial 17 of Trinity
Church, Oak Park, Illinois, requesting that the “Statement” docu-
ment be rejected, and Unprinted Memorial 18 as it referred to
“A Statement,” and submitted the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted:

Resolution 20

Wuereas, The matter of “A Statement” has been dealt with by
the responsible officials and by three previous conventions of
Synod (1947, 1950, and 1953); and