# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S367
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PARISH EDUCATION AND SERVICES 367

18, 36: My kingdom is not of this world; also Luke 12, 14: and
Who made Me a judge or a divider over you? Paul also . ;
says, Phil. 3, 20: Our citizenship is in heaven; 2 Cor. 10, 4: Wuereas, There is evidence that there are those who

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty would desire financial assistance which is contrary to
rough Goa to the casting own of imaginations. our established Confessions and Scripture, thus con-
Apol., Art. XVI, 54, Triglot, pp. 329, 331: founding civil authority and church authority; therefore

This entire topic concerning the distinction between the be it
kingdom of Christ and a political kingdom has been ex- . .
plained to advantage [to the remarkably great consolation Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri

of many consciences] in the literature of our writers, Synod assembled in convention, recommend rejection of
[namely] that the kingdom of Christ is spiritual [inas- . b hich is di
much as Christ governs by the Word and by preaching], all financial support by our government which is di-
to wit, beginning in the heart the knowledge of God, the rected to its Christian day schools.

fear of God and faith, eternal righteousness, and eternal

life; meanwhile it permits us outwardly to use legitimate Concorpia LUTHERAN CHURCH
political ordinances of every nation in which we live, San Antonio, Tex.

Just as it permits us to use medicine or the art of building, G. A. Merkens, Pastor