# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S179
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

CHURCH RELATIONS 179

altar and pulpit fellowship with The ALC as long as the
above errors continue in The ALC.
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH
Oceanside, Calif.
WiLuiAM E. Guipotti1, Chairman
Dona_p FLoyp, Secretary
MITcHELL J. PRiFoGLe, Pastor

(3-227)

To Require Subscription to Ten-Point
Formula for Fellowship with ALC

Wuereas, The question of altar and pulpit fellowship
between The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod and
The American Lutheran Church is one of the most
momentous issues ever to come before the LCMS: and

Whereas, There are those in our midst who errone-
ously claim that there now is doctrinal unity between
The ALC and the LCMS: and

Wuereas, It is clear from current public teachings
of The ALC that doctrines contrary to Holy Scriptures
are being taught: and

Wuereas, The ALC practices fellowship with the
Lutheran Church in America and is also affiliated with
the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World
Federation, which organizations are liberal and union-
istic: therefore be it

Resolved, That Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church.
R. 1. Fairmont, Minn., refuses to have altar and pulpit
fellowship with The American Lutheran Church unless
said body subscribes without reservation to the follow-
ing “Ten-Point Formula for Fellowship with The ALC”:

It is our conviction that no God-pleasing fellowship
between The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod and
The American Lutheran Church can be established un-
less The ALC agrees without reservation to meet the
following minimum standards:

1. That The ALC accepts all the Canonical books of
the Old and New Testaments as the revealed, inerrant
Word of God. verbally inspired, and acknowledges and
accepts all the confessional books of the Lutheran
Church as they were originally published in the Book
of Concord of 1580 to be a true and genuine exposition
of the doctrines of the Bible. which confessional writings
are: (1) the three Ecumenical Creeds. i. e., the Apostles’,
the Nicene. and the Athanasian: (2) the Unaltered
Augsburg Confession: (3) the Apology of the same;
(4) the Smalcald Articles: (5) Luther’s Small Cate-
chism; (6) Luther's Large Catechism; (7) the Formula
of Concord.

2. That The ALC acknowledges as doctrinally cor-
rect the Brief Statement adopted by the Missouri Synod
in 1932 and reafirmed by Missouri in 1947.

3. That The ALC rejects the higher critical pre-
suppositions and approach to the Scriptures as being
destructive of true Biblical scholarship and a danger to
a childlike faith in God's Word. (2 Tim. 3:15)

4. That The ALC actually teaches the Word of God
by the spoken and written word in conformity with pro-
visions 1, 2, and 3.

5. That The ALC disciplines and if necessary re-
moves pastors and professors who are teaching contrary
to provisions 1, 2, and 3.

6. That The ALC officially repudiates the false doc-
trine contained in its instruction manual The Bible:
Book of Faith.

7. That The ALC severs all connection with the
liberal and unionistic Lutheran World Federation.

8. That The ALC severs all connections with the
liberal and unionistic World Council of Churches,

9. That The ALC discontinues its de facto fellowship
with the liberal and unionistic Lutheran Church in
America.

10. That The ALC discontinues the practice of re-
ceiving into communicant membership those who are
members of any Christ-denying organization such as
secret, oath-bound societies that confess and foster a
religion the principles and practices of which conflict
with the Word of God (2 Cor. 6:14-18; 2 John 9); that
it recognizes its obligation to deal in a Scriptural man-
ner, in Christian love, patience. and forbearance, with
those in its midst who are now members of such or-
ganizations and to show them that membership in such
organizations is incompatible with their Christian faith.

Zion Ev. LUTHERAN CHURCH
Fairmont, Minn.

Leroy C. Hartune, Chairman
ELMER BEHRENS, Secretary
Wo. A. Martu, Vacancy Pastor

(3-228)

To Acknowledge that Proposed Fellowship
Is Forbidden

Wuereas, Jesus Christ is confessed by us as the Lord
and Head of His church on earth: and

Wuereas, We have in Baptism all vowed Jesus Christ
implicit. unquestioned obedience in all things He has
commanded or forbidden in His Holy Scriptures; and

Wuereas, Jesus Christ being our Lord and we His
servants, we have nothing to say in any matter but only
to obey Him in all matters; and

Wuereas, Jesus has given His church on earth as His
body, that is. all its members, specific commands with
whom He wants us to fellowship in Eph.5:11: “Have
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness”;
and

WHEREAS, It is obvious to the Lord Jesus and all of us
that The American Lutheran Church is full of such
unfruitful works of darkness with its false doctrines
and practices, as:

1. They openly confess that the Bible is not only
authored by the Holy Spirit but also by sinful, fallible
men. so it has human errors and therefore is not the