# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1965_S94
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‘94 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 2

To Allocate Funds for TV Mission
in Japan and Taiwan

RESOLUTION 1-46

Report 1-05 (CW, pp. 13—16)

In this age of the population explosion God is offer-
ing the church mass-communication tools such as TV
to disseminate the Gospel also in other lands. In Japan,
for example, there are more than. 18 million TV receiv-
ers, even more than in the United Kingdom, Japan being
second only to the U.S.A. in this respect.

Mass-communications media are known to be espe-
cially effective in reaching a highly urbanized and uni-
fied culture. Therefore it is most important that we
fully utilize the mass-communications media through
which a whole nation like Japan can be leavened with
the Gospel.

Our missionary conferences in Japan and Taiwan
and the Board for World Missions have repeatedly
requested funds to launch a TV mission outreach in
those countries; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Board of Directors, in consulta-
tion with the Board for Missions and the Work Program
Conference, be requested to give very high priority to
allocation of funds for the use of mass-communications
media also in foreign lands, with special attention to
TV « Japan and Taiwan.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

COMMITTEE 2 — Doctrinal Matters

Preamble to Resolutions of Floor Committee 2

Whether our present crisis in doctrinal matters is
as great as many of us. feel and fear, only the still
unknown future will tell. Crisis: there is, for the church
under the Word of God is always in crisis. And in
time of crisis men must give up luxuries.

We cannot now afford the luxury of haste; we dare
not be panicked into spasmodic action — action that has
a maximum of energy and a minimum of direction.
Rather we must work in hallowed urgency and holy
fear, and give the Holy Spirit time and scope for His
mysterious and creative sway.

We cannot now afford the luxury of suspicion. We
must work in love; love must be vigilant and open-
eyed, for love rejoices in the truth. But love is not
love if it is not willing to risk betrayal, as God’s love
in Christ risked betrayal at the hands of men who
loved the lie.

We cannot now afford the luxury of contempt. We
dare not pass over a brother’s just concerns with an
arrogant intellectualism, for that will cost us more
than we can now foresee or ever pay.

It is with this sense of crisis that your committee
has done its work, in fear and trembling but also with
the high confidence that God, who took us so seriously
that He delivered up His beloved Son for us, will not
forsake us if we take seriously His Word to us. We
present the results of our work to you in the hope

and with the prayer that you will evaluate it and, if
need be, amend it in the spirit in which it was produced.

To Reaffirm Unwavering Loyalty
to the Scriptures as the Inspired
and Inerrant Word of God

RESOLUTION 2-01

Overture 2-09 (CW, p.52)

Wuereas, The Synod has affirmed that it “is genu-
inely concerned about maintaining doctrinal purity and
confessional unity” (Resolution 3-17, Proceedings,
1962, p. 105); and

Wuereas, The Synod has reaffirmed its confessional
basis as stated in Article II of the Constitution (ibid.);
and

Whereas, All members of the Synod have been
urged by the mercies of God to honor and uphold the
doctrinal content of synodically adopted statements
(op. cit., p. 106); therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod penitently and fervently
pray the Lord of the church to keep us faithful in the
truth of His Word, preserve us from all error, and
mercifully remove any error whenever it arises
among us.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

To Request Commission on Theology
and Church Relations to Give a More
Precise Definition of “Inspiration
of the Scriptures”

RESOLUTION 2-02

Overture 2-06 (CW, pp. 49, 50)

Wuereas, The Commission on Theology and Church
Relations has produced a “Revision of the Study Docu-
ment on Revelation, Inspiration, and Inerrancy,” which
supersedes its former document (“Study Document on
Revelation, Inspiration, and Inerrancy”); and

Wuereas, This revised document deals with the con-
cerns of the overture; therefore be it

Resolved, That the brother be referred to the “Re-
vision of the Study Document on Revelation, Inspira-
tion, and Inerrancy” for the answer requested in his
overture and that he direct any further concerns to
the Commission on Theology and Church Relations.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

To Adopt the Report of the Committee
on English Bible Versions of the Commission
on Theology and Church Relations
RESOLUTION 2-03
Report 2-01, Appendix D (CW, pp. 43, 44)

Overture 2-45 Un (4) (URO, pp. 5, 6)

Whereas, The Synod has resolved to authorize the
Board of Parish Education to use the Revised Standard