# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S155
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CHURCH RELATIONS 155

theme of the Bible, which begins in Genesis 12 with the
story of Abraham. Here we are on firm historical ground.
... Here also is the real starting point for that which is
often called “holy history” or history from a religious
point of view. (P.54)

Sometimes, too, it is not easy to distinguish between
that which is figurative and that which is factual. A great
many controversies have raged about Genesis 1.... But
whether factual or figurative ... (P.153)

A particular problem in connection with the letters of
Paul is one which has to do with... 1 and 2 Timothy and
Titus. ... The problem has to do with authorship. ...
While the letters go back to Paul, they appear in their
present form to be the work of someone other than Paul.
... These letters may have been written sometime after
Paul’s death. (P.126)

It is wondered whether 2 Peter was written by Peter
or by someone living after Peter had died (p.127);

and

Whereas, These current and official teachings in The
American Lutheran Church contradict plain Scripture:
2 Timothy 3:16; Luke 24: 27, 44; John 5: 47; John 3: 14-15;
Luke 11:51; 1 Tim. 1:1-2; 2 Tim. 1:1-2; 2 Peter 1:1;
therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod decline to establish altar and pulpit fellowship
with The American Lutheran Church.

St. ANDREW LUTHERAN CHURCH
Chicago, Ill.

Haroip P. Rosisu, Chairman
ArtHuR J. KENNING, Secretary

(3-172)

To Remember and to Decline

Whereas, It has been a century-old policy of our
beloved church to undertake fellowship with other
church bodies only on the soundest and clearest of
principles; and

Whereas, The growth and prosperity of our beloved
church. can be directly traced to the blessings of al-
mighty God upon staunch and unyielding adherence
to the Seriptures as the divinely inspired and inerrant
Word of God: and

Whereas, The Lord of the church has not changed
His directive: “He that hath My Word, let him speak
My Word faithfully”; and

Wuereas, The church is once again standing at the
crossroads and facing a vital time of decision: and

Wuereas, There have appeared and persisted the
clearest signs (both at our training schools and among
congregational leaders) of drifting into looser and less
fundamental or less conservative associations; and

Wuereas, Similarity in doctrinal aberrations in our
own training schools and the schools of The ALC points
rather to the need for discipline than to the existence
of a proper basis for fellowship: and

Wuenreas, Present doctrinal unrest is already being
reflected in a cooling off of zeal for support of the over-
all program of the Synod, a condition which has wors-

ened, not improved, with the apparent drift toward
fellowship by those now “at the helm”; and

Wuereas, There does not exist at this time a sound
and acceptable basis for fellowship with The ALC; and

Wuereas, Such a fellowship move at this date could
result only in making a most unsure and altogether
needless step into the unknown; therefore be it

Resolved, That we bind upon the hearts of the dele-
gates to the Denver convention that they “remember
them that have spoken unto us the Word of Life,” rightly
value and respect our heritage, and decline to enter into
followship with The American Lutheran Church at this

time. Sr, Joun’s Ev. LuTHERAN CONGREGATION

Horicon, Wis.
BERNHARD KRUEGER, JR., Secretary
Watter E, Geurs, Pastor

(3-173)

To Deny Fellowship Until Inerrancy Issue
Is Settled

WuereEas, The Fourth Article of the ALC Constitution
states: “The American Lutheran Church accepts all the
canonical books of the Old and New Testament as a
whole and in all their parts as the divinely inspired,
revealed, and inerrant word of God, and submits to
this as the only infallible authority in all matters of
faith and life’; and

Wuereas, The President of The American Lutheran
Church, Dr. Fredrik A. Schiotz, in an essay which we
have studied in its entirety, “The Church’s Confessional
Stand Relative to the Scriptures,” states: “TALC holds
that the inerrancy referred to here [in the Constitution]
does not apply to the text, but to the truths revealed
for our faith, doctrine, and life”: and

Wuereas, This essay was presented to two ALC dis-
trict conventions in 1966; and

Wuereas, This doctrinal statement of Dr. Schiotz
destroys the authority of the Holy Scriptures, on which
all doctrine is founded: and

Whereas, This essay concerning the Holy Scriptures
was not only publicly stated but was distributed to
all pastors and congregations of The ALC as the stand
of The ALC from its highest official; and

Wuereas, In discussion with the pastors of the ALC
congregations in our area this view of Holy Scriptures
proposed by Dr. Schiotz has their full and unqualified
support; and

WuereEas, This essay and view of Holy Scriptures
stands in direct opposition to the very clear and correct
statement of the ALC Constitution, and

WuereaS, This resolution to this convention is merely
a statement of public knowledge and fact and is in no
way against the Constitution or Bylaws of our Synod
(1.27 f); therefore be it

Resolved, That we do not establish altar and pulpit
fellowship with The American Lutheran Church until
this most vital of all issues is satisfactorily settled