# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S95
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CHURCH RELATIONS 95

pastoral ministries carried on in the synods, and to sug-
gest appropriate means by which the members of the
synods may grow in their understanding and practice
of fellowship; and be it finally
Resolved, That the Synod authorize its President, in
consultation with the President of The American Lu-
theran Church, to announce the establishment of altar
and pulpit fellowship between their respective church
bodies and to make suggestions for the appropriate im-
plementation of the worthy purpose of this declaration.
Outver R. HarMs, President
in conjunction with
Tue CoUNCIL OF PRESIDENTS

LCUSA
(3-02)

To Sever Completely Connections
with LCUSA

Wuereas, The Lutheran Council in the U.S. A. takes
away approximately $750,000 per year of our “mission”
offerings, and these funds are so sorely needed just to
maintain our missionaries and our missionary fields;
and

Wuereas, The Council is taking on more and more
the complexion of a church or ecclesiastical entity,
namely, in the coordination of missionary endeavor
(Interchange, Aug. 1967; Feb. 1968; Sept. 1968), and
is taking over the distribution and raising of funds
locally for natural disasters and other emergencies, as
well as for social welfare (I., Sept. 1967; May 1968), and
has been instrumental in the preliminary formation of
a single organization for Lutheran college students (I.,
Jan. 1968), and is working toward unification and the
taking over of the campus ministries of each constituent
body (1., Feb. 1968; Oct. 1968), and is working toward
unification of public relations work under its auspices
(I., Feb. 1968), and is taking over in the foreign-lan-
guage (Spanish already) ministries (I., Feb. 1968), and
is working to correlate local inter-Lutheran councils in
order that they may avoid overlapping LCUSA work
(1., March 1968), and is working to fully coordinate the
parish education departments (I., March 1968), and is
providing staff services for the Lutheran Educational
Conference of North America (I., April 1968), and has
received U.N. accreditation (I., May 1968), and is act-
ing as spokesman on political issues (J., June 1968),
and is taking over stewardship education and promo-
tion (I., June 1968), and has taken over preservice mis-
sionary training (I., July 1968; Sept. 1968), and has
taken over the Pro Deo et Patria program for Boy
Scouts (I., Aug. 1968), and is fostering the Camp Fire
Girls program (I., Sept. 1968), and has fostered merger
of Lutheran chaplains in Minnesota (1., Sept. 1968), and
has helped unite deaconesses in one organization (L.,
Oct. 1968), and has publicized Dr. Marshall’s statement
calling for union before unity as “commitment to the
cause of Lutheran unity and union”; and

Wuereas, In short, merger is being foisted upon the

constituent bodies of LCUSA even before a basis for
altar and pulpit fellowship is determined to exist; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the Denver convention sever our
connections with the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A.

completely. FarrH LUTHERAN CONGREGATION

East Wenatchee, Wash.

Rosert R. BRUNNER, President
WILLIAM H. HILDEBRAND, Secretary
Wattace E. Morris, Pastor

(3-03)
To Dissolve and Withdraw from LCUSA

Wuereas, Interchange, official publication of the Lu-
theran Council in the United States of America, makes
it clear that the said LCUSA is assuming a leading role
in promoting unionism without regard to the clear
teaching of Holy Scripture; and

Wuereas, LCUSA is not a church but is assuming
many of the privileges and prerogatives of the church;
and

Wuereas, LCUSA has not proved to be an effective
tool in leading all synods to a unity of doctrine on the
basis of Scripture and gives little evidence of efforts
to do so; and

Wuereas, LCUSA does not consult member congre-
gations when it represents our Synod in such organiza-
tions as COCU and is going beyond the stated purpose
for which it was organized; and

Wuereas, LCUSA has contributed and assisted little
toward the church’s mission of spreading the Gospel of
forgiveness in Christ while at the same time using large
resources of the church, and is therefore a poor steward-
ship of funds given for the purpose of missions; there~-
fore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod withdraw from and seek the dissolution of the
Lutheran Council in the United States of America.

Our Savior LUTHERAN CHURCH
Harrisonville, Mo.

W. T. NIERMEIER, Pastor

Wo. A. CrRowpber, Secretary

(3-04)

To Disavow LCUSA Involvement with COCU

Wuereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
is a member of the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A.;
and

Wuereas, LCUSA has sent observer-consultants to
the meeting of the Consultation on Church Union
(COCU); and

Wuereas, The effort of COCU is to unite into a sin-
gle church such doctrinally divergent communions as
Methodists, Disciples of Christ, Presbyterians, Episco-
palians, and the United Church of Christ; and

WHEREAS, Such an ecumenical effort toward union,