# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1967_S102
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102 CHURCH RELATIONS

‘of the Lutheran Council in the U.S. A. provides for
campus work leadership in cooperative Lutheran cam-
pus work; therefore be it

Resolved, That the work of the campus ministry con-
tinue to be the direct administrative responsibility of the
synodical Districts; and be it further

Resolved, That the Synod adopt the “Policy State-
ment on Campus Ministry” (CW, Appendix F, p. 52)
and synodical Districts be encouraged to develop their
campus ministries in keeping with this policy statement;
and be it further

Resolved, That the Synod through its Board for Mis-
sions and the staff office of Secretary for Campus Minis-
tries continue to advise the Districts and their campus
pastors of synodical principles for the campus ministry
and also that the Synod be represented in developing
campus work procedures in the Lutheran Council in the
U.S. A.; and be it finally

Resolved, That the Synod in consultation with the
National Lutheran’. Campus Ministry request the Lu-
theran Council in the U.S.A. to develop procedures
toward assuming the coordinative and consultative func-
tions of the synodical campus work as soon as practica-
ble.

Action: Adopted in the form given above.

(Action on Resolution 3-06 was deferred to permit the
printing of an amendment which had been moved and sec-
onded. Resolution 3-20 is identical with 3-06 except that it
incorporates by committee action the proposed amendment as
the third Resolved. It is in this form — with four Resolveds
that the resolution was adopted.)

To Provide Addition to “Handbook”
on Sister Church Fellowship
RESOLUTION 3-21
(Recommitted Resolution 3-08)
Overture 3-01 (CW, p. 86)

Wuereas, The Synod adopted a policy statement enti-
tled “Theological Principles to Guide the Development
of Missions and the Relationships Between the Synod
and Various Sister Mission Churches” at the Detroit
convention (Proceedings, 1965, pp. 104—105); and

Wuereas, Certain existing self-governing church
bodies outside the United States may seek fellowship
with the Synod; and

Wuereas, The Synod seeks to encourage its missions
outside the United States to assume independent self-
governing status; and

Wuereas, It would be wise to establish a procedure to
be followed when such church bodies are to be recog-
nized in fellowship with the Synod; and

Wuereas, The Synod’s Handbook lacks such a proce-
dure; therefore be it

Resolved, That the following paragraph be incorpo-
rated in the synodical Handbook as an addition to Chap-
ter XVI, “Interchurch Relations”:

6.03 B. SISTER CHURCH FELLOWSHIP
16.0:

a. When a church body applies for formal recognition as
a sister church, in altar and pulpit fellowship with the Synod,
such recognition shall be proposed at a synodical convention
only after the approval of the Commission on Theology and
Church Relations.

b. When a synodical mission applies for formal recogni-
tion as a self-governing sister church, such recognition shall
be proposed at a synodical convention by the Board for Mis~
sions with the approval of the Commission on Theology and
Church Relations.

Action: Adopted.

(In the original Resolution 3-08 offered by the floor com-

mittee the proposed Handbook paragraph had read:
16.03 Formal recognition of an association of congrega-
tions as a self-governing church body desiring to estab-
lish altar and pulpit fellowship with the Synod as a sister
church shall be proposed to a synodical delegate conven-
tion by the Commission on Theology and Church Rela-
tions. In cases where the church body has been served
as a synodical mission, such a proposal for sister church
recognition shall also have been approved by the Board
for Missions,

An amendment was moved and seconded to strike the words
“church body desiring to establish altar and pulpit fellowship
with the Synod as a.” At this point Resolution 3-08 was re-
committed to the committee, which later offered the revised
resolution labeled 3-21, which in turn was adopted by the
convention.)

RESOLUTION 3-22
(Recommitted. See Resolution 3-23)

To Take Steps Toward Declaration of Altar
and Pulpit Fellowship with The American
Lutheran Church
RESOLUTION 3-23
(Recommitted Resolution 3-22)

Report 2-01 (CW, pp. 45—48)
Overtures 3-05 to 3-09 (CW, pp. 87-89), 3-42 U, 3-43 U;7
3-44 U, 3-47 U, 3-48 U, 3-49 U (URO, pp. 26—27, 30—33)

Whereas, The “Joint Statement and Declaration” of
the official representatives of The American Lutheran
Church and The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
and the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches re-
veals consensus (CW, p. 421) in the preaching of the
Gospel “in conformity with a pure understanding of it”
and in the administration of the sacraments “in accord-
ance with the divine Word” (A.C, VII); and

Wuereas, It is incumbent upon Christians who dis-
cover a wholehearted consensus in their understanding
and proclamation of the Gospel to confess their Lord
with one mind and one voice and to live together in
unity and mutual assistance; and

Wuereas, Diversities of practice which do not consti-
tute a denial or contradiction of the Gospel can be un-
derstood better, and agreement can be developed more
easily toward a consistent evangelical practice for mu-
tual edification, when Christians are united in the work
of the Lord under the Word and sacraments; and

WHEREAS, The constituency of church groups intend-
ing to share altar and pulpit fellowship should be well

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