# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S187
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INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS 187

Invite National Evangelical Lutheran Church to
Establish Organic Union with Missouri Synod;
Finnish Relations Committee Be Instructed
to Arrange Necessary Meetings
RESOLUTION 2, COMMITTEE 3
Unprinted Memorial 632

Wuereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod and the Na-
tional Evangelical Lutheran Church have been in doctrinal agree-
ment for more than thirty-five years; and

Wuereas, Altar and pulpit fellowship has been practiced dur-
ing this time; and

Wuereas, The pastors of the National Evangelical Lutheran
Church are, for the most part, graduates of our Springfield Sem-
inary; and

Wuereas, The pastors of the National Evangelical Lutheran
Church have helped their congregations to appreciate the close
ties existing between the two synods; and

Wuereas, The National Evangelical Lutheran Church is at
the present time considering amalgamation with The Lutheran
Church — Missouri Synod and to this end has, through its Merger
Committee, prepared a document entitled An Introduction to the
Merger Issue, in which especially the advantages of merger are
set forth; and

Wuereas, An overture of The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod to the National Evangelical Lutheran Church at this time
would indicate our own interest in this issue; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod invite
the National Evangelical Lutheran Church to establish organic
union with our Synod; and be it further

Resolved, That the Finnish Relations Committee be instructed
to arrange the necessary meetings with the representatives of the
National Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Committee on Doc-
trinal Unity of our Synod with a view toward establishing organic
union.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

The Oakland, California, Theologians’ Conference
RESOLUTION 3, COMMITTEE 3

Memorial 601, page 482, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The Oakland, California, Theologians’ Conference
sponsored by Synod’s Committee on Doctrinal Unity has been in-