# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S112
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

112 CHURCH RELATIONS

mune as guests at the altar of congregations of the
other synod;

4) members may transfer their membership from con-
gregations of one synod to congregations of the other
synod;

5) congregations of one synod may call as their pastors
those who are on the clergy roster of the other synod;

6) students may prepare for the holy ministry in the
seminaries of the other synod;

7) professors on the clergy roster of one synod could
be called to teach in the seminaries and colleges of
the other synod; and
Whereas, Christians should not practice altar and

pulpit fellowship with those who teach contrary to Holy

Scripture:

1. Rom. 16:17,

2. Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the Mis-
souri Synod, Par. 28.

3. The Lutheran Witness, May 28, 1940.

4. Formula of Concord, Epitome, Art. X, Par. 5; and
Wuereas, Christians cannot enter into altar and pul-

pit fellowship with a church body that claims to be

orthodox simply because the correct Scriptural doctrine
is stated in its official confessions:

. Brief Statement, Par. 29.

C. F. W. Walther, The True Visible Church, p. 35.

. Francis Pieper, Christian Dogmatics, II, 423.

. Francis Pieper, Lehre und Wehre, August 1890, p. 262.

. “The Doctrine of the Church in the Lutheran Con-

fessions,” an essay adopted by the commissioners of

The ALC and LCMS, 1966; and

Whereas, The Bible, the Lutheran Confessions, and
all orthodox Christians teach that the Bible is the ver-
bally inspired, inerrant Word of God:

1. 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Tim. 3:16; John 10:35.

2. The Large Catechism, Baptism, Par. 57.
3. Martin Luther, Saemmtliche Schriften, XIX, 1073.
4. Brief Statement, Par. 1.

. Francis Pieper, Christian Dogmatics, I, 280.
C. F. W. Walther, Walther and the Church, p. 14.
. The Constitution of The ALC, Art. IV.
. The Handbook of the LCMS, Bylaws IV; and
Whereas, A good number of officials, pastors, and
professors within The American Lutheran Church reject
the Scriptural doctrine of the real inerrancy of the Bible
(some of these ALC clergymen were elected to promi-
nent positions within The ALC by general conventions
of The ALC after it was a matter of public knowledge
that they denied the doctrine of the inerrancy of the
Bible):
1. Luther, Vol. 4, Spring 1967, No. 2.
2. Trans-Action, July/August 1967.

3. The Bible: Book of Faith, by Theological Professors

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of The American Lutheran Church, pp. 148, 5, 43, 62,
76, 46, 77, 78, 67—79, 54, 153, 126—27.

4. God’s Word and My Faith, ALC teacher’s guide,
pp. 32, 31.

. When God Speaks, pp. 28—29, 52, 63.

. The Lutheran Standard, Aug. 23, 1966.

. The Lutheran Standard, Jan.1, 1963.

. The Lutheran Standard, Nov. 12, 1968.

. Theological Perspectives.

10. Dr. Fredrik Schiotz, “The Church’s Confessional
Stand Relative to the Scriptures.”

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11. The Maturing of American Lutheranism, p. 223.
12. Lutheran Outlook, Oct. 1950, pp. 311—313; and
Wuereas, The theory that man and the world have

gradually evolved from some primary substance is con-
trary to Holy Scripture:

1. Matt. 19:3.
2. Rom. 5:12,
3. Brief Statement, par.5: and
WuereEas, The ALC no longer insists on the natural
historical interpretation of the Genesis creation account,

and it allows the view that theistic evolution is not con-

trary to Holy Scripture:

1. Lutheran Standard, Dec. 4, 1962. Dialog, Autumn
1963.

2. The 1962—63 Theme Manual of the Youth Depart-
ment of the ALC. The Lutheran Standard, Nov. 17,
1964.

3. The Lutheran Standard, Feb. 23, 1965.

4. The Lutheran Standard, June 4, 1964.

5. Thomas Mails, The Nature of Heresy in Our Time,
pp. 214, 217.

6. The Lutheran Standard, Aug. 10, 1965; and
Wuereas, The Bible teaches’ the idea of proposi-

tional truth, revelation, absolute truth, which man can

know and express in doctrinal statements:

1. Deut. 29:29; 11:18 ff.; Is. 8:20; Ps. 106:12; Ps. 119.

2. Rom. 3:2; 2 Tim. 3:16; Acts 24:14; John 10:35; and
WHEREAS, Various statements coming from respon-

sible ALC sources say that pure doctrine is not attain-

able and that no theological declaration can be consid-

ered absolutely true and final:

1. “Doctrinal Concerns,” endorsed by the 1966 general
convention of The ALC,

2. Theology in the Life of the Church, pp. 25, 31.

3. The Maturing of American Lutheranism, pp. 17—18;
and

Wuereas, ALC clergymen and writers are permitted
to deny basic truths of Holy Scripture:
1. One, April 1966, p. 5.
2. Lutheran Standard, July 23, 1968. If God Be for Us,
p. 53.
3. CPH Commentator, Fall 1968.