# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2010_S327
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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES
5-16	To Provide to Specific Ministry Pastor (SMP) Students
the Same Pre-ordination Core Curriculum as Residential
Seminary Students ....................................................................194
5-17
To Recruit and Retain Full-Time Church Workers ..................194
5-18
To Celebrate and Support “For the Sake of the Church” .........194
5-19
To Encourage Pastors and Laity in Their Recruitment Role ....195
5-20
To Increase Impact of Vicarage Program .................................195
5-21	To Include Disabilities Awareness Training in Seminary
Curricula ...................................................................................195
5-22	To Direct President to Clarify Teaching of Six-Day
Creation in Synod Schools . ......................................................196
5-23	To Oppose Evolution and Commend Creation Research
Society and Creation Museum ..................................................196
5-24
To Provide Deaconess Colloquy at Seminaries ........................197
5-25	To Revise Bylaw 3.8.3.5 re Commissioned Ministry
Colloquy ...................................................................................197
5-26	To Revise Bylaw 3.8.3.5 re Admission to Commissioned
Ministry by Colloquy . ..............................................................199
5-27	To Revise Bylaw re Admission to Commissioned Ministry
by Colloquy ..............................................................................201
5-28
To Revise Bylaws 3.8.3.5.5 re DCE Colloquy .........................202
5-29	To Revise Bylaw 3.8.3.6.2 re Board of Regents
Qualifications . ..........................................................................202
5-30	To Revise Bylaw 3.8.3.7.2 re Election Process for College
and University Presidents .........................................................203
5-31	To Revise Bylaw 3.8.3.7.2 re Election of College
and University Presidents .........................................................204
5-32	To Revise Bylaw 3.8.3.7 re College/University President
Responsibilities .........................................................................204
5-33	To Require LCMS College and University President
to Be Male . ...............................................................................205
5-34
To Clarify Bylaw 3.8.3.8.2 re Promotion of Faculty ................205
5-35
To Revise Bylaw 3.8.3.8.3 (b) re Faculty Appointments .........206
5-36	To Remove an Ambiguous Expression from Bylaw 3.8.3.8.3 (b)
re Appointment of Full-Time Faculty . .....................................206

6. Human Care
6-01	To Join Lutheran Malaria Initiative as Official Partner
Organization . ............................................................................207
6-02	To State LCMS Position and Speak Up re Human Life
Issues . .......................................................................................207
6-03	To Commend Lutherans For Life and Require Acceptance
of LCMS Position on Abortion . ...............................................207
6-04	To Amend Bylaws to Allow Calls to Institutional Chaplains
and Counselors . ........................................................................207
6-05	To Report Promptly the Deaths of Faithfully Departed
Soldiers of the Cross .................................................................208
6-06
To Support Efforts to End Human Trafficking/Slavery ...........208
6-07	To Provide Strategies and Resources re Gender Identity
Issues. ........................................................................................209
6-08	To Denounce Hate Crimes Legislation and Advocate
Christian Freedom ....................................................................209

7. Ecclesial Matters
7-01	To Add Wording to Bylaws re Expectations of Synod
Membership ..............................................................................211
To Affirm the Equal Dignity of All Congregations . ................211
7-02
7-03
To Rightly Understand “Doctrinal Position of the Synod” ......211
7-04
To Rightly Understand Advisory Nature of the Synod ............212
7-05
To Amend Bylaw 2.5.2 re Congregations Calling Pastors .......212

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7-06	To Create a Means for Placement of Church Workers
on Candidate Status ..................................................................212
7-07
To Clarify Bylaw re Specific Ministry Pastor Limitations . .....213
To Revise Selection of CCM Members ....................................213
7-08
To Clarify Which CCM Opinions Are Binding .......................213
7-09
7-10	To Require Consideration of Certain Requests for Review
of CCM Opinions......................................................................214
7-11	To Require Consideration of CCM-Related Overtures and
Resolutions re Theological Matters ..........................................214
7-12	To Overrule CCM Opinion 02-2309 re Ecclesiastical
Supervision................................................................................214
7-13	To Overrule CCM Opinions 02-2296, 02-2309, and
02-2320. ......................................................................................214
7-14
To Ask the Synod to Overrule CCM Opinions ........................215
7-15
To Overrule CCM Opinions re Ecclesiastical Supervision ......216
To Overrule CCM Opinions on Ecclesiastical Supervision .....217
7-16
7-17	To Consider Adding Time Limitations to Dispute Resolution
Process ......................................................................................217
7-18	To Post Standard Operating Procedures Manuals on Synod
Web Site . ..................................................................................217
7-19	To Require Use of Investigation Committee, Reconciliation
Committee, and Referral Panel in Expulsion Processes ...........217
7-20	To Rescind 2004 Res. 8-01A and Develop a New
Adjudication Process ................................................................218
7-21	To Provide for Removal of Individual Board or Commission
Members ...................................................................................219

8. Synod Structure and Governance
8-01	To Encourage Careful Consideration of BRTFSSG
Proposals ....................................................................................221
8-02	To Allow Time for Reasonable Conversation and Consideration of Changes to Structure .....................................................221
8-03
To Foster Greater Unanimity in Decisions re Structure ...........222
8-04	To Postpone Consideration and Implementation of Task
Force Report .............................................................................222
8-05	To Exercise Care and Delay Implementation of Structure
Changes . ...................................................................................222
8-06	To Allow Time to Study Task Force Recommendations .........223
8-07	To Submit BRTFSSG Report to All Congregations for Study
and Defer Action until Following Convention .........................223
8-08	To Proceed with Task Force Proposals Only If Full and
Timely Disclosure of Proposed Revisions Is Provided ............223
8-09
To Reject Blue Ribbon Task Force Recommendations . ..........224
8-10	To Defer Proposed Restructure/Reorganization to 2013
Convention . ..............................................................................224
8-11	To Delay Implementation of Certain BRTFSSG Proposals .....224
8-12	To Consider Recommendations of BRTFSSG as Separate
Items to Be Voted on Individually . ..........................................225
8-13	To Consider Alternate Restructure Plans and Proposals and
Decline Recommended Changes to Synod Constitution ..........225
8-14
To Retain Existing Synod Constitution ....................................225
8-15	To Reject Proposed Changes to Articles II, III, and VI . ..........226
8-16
To Retain Current Constitution Articles II-IV, VI-VII . ...........227
8-17	To Align Synod Structure with Walther’s Church and
Ministry .....................................................................................227
8-18
To Affirm Integrity and Dignity of All Congregations ............228
8-19
To Respect All Congregations Equally ....................................228
8-20
To Give Congregation Overtures Equal Consideration ............228
8-21	To Reject All Proposals That Limit or Hinder Participation
of Congregations . .....................................................................228
8-22
To Retain Congregational Orientation of Synod ......................229

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