# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2016_S 19
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To Confirm Continued Use of Deacons. .............444
To Retain Licensed Lay Deacon Ministry...........444
To Retain Licensed Lay Deacon Ministry...........446
To Retain Office of Lay Deacon for Sake of
Mission of the Church.........................................448
To Affirm and Expand Established Practice of
Licensed Lay Deacons........................................448
To Affirm Continued Use of Deacon in LCMS..... 449
To Use Ministry of Licensed Lay Deacons to Help
Spread the Gospel. ..............................................450
To Establish Subordinate Office of Deacon to
Participate in Preaching and Administration of
Sacraments..........................................................451
To Affirm Use of Licensed Lay Deacons as
Expression of Partnership between Office of
Ministry and Priesthood of Believers..................452
To Affirm and Encourage Ministry of Licensed Lay
Deacons...............................................................453
To Encourage and Affirm Ministry of Licensed Lay
Deacons...............................................................453
To Call and Ordain Certified Male Deacons to
Preaching Office. ................................................454
To Celebrate and Encourage Use of Licensed Lay
Deacons in Word and Sacrament Ministry..........455
To Study Res. 4-06A Task Force Report.............455
To Continue to Support Certified Lay Ministers... 455
To Affirm Use of Licensed Lay Deacons to Deliver
Word and Sacrament Ministry. ...........................456
To Modify and Fund Recommendations of Res.
4-06A Task Force Report....................................456
To Encourage and Continue Ministry of Licensed
Lay Deacons........................................................457
To Direct Licensed Lay Deacons Serving in
Extenuating Circumstances as “Sole Pastor” to
Seek Ordination. .................................................457
To Encourage Multi-Point Parishes.....................457
To Affirm Deacon as Auxiliary Office. ...............458
To Establish Office of Licensed Deacon and Ordain
Licensed Deacons as Deacons. ...........................459
To Affirm Use of Licensed Lay Deacons for Word
and Sacrament Ministry in Cases of Necessity...459
To Retain District Lay Deacon Programs............460
To Make Provision for Continued Existence of
Licensed Lay Deacon Status...............................460
To Keep Deacon Ministry. ..................................460
To Affirm Ministry of Licensed Lay Deacons.....460
To Affirm Ministry of Licensed Lay Deacons.....461
To Endorse Concordia College—New York’s
Collaborative Lay Deacon Program....................461

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13-43 To Provide Financial Assistance for Lay Deacons
to Complete SMP Program.................................462
13-44 To Include Office of Deacon in List of LCMS
Commissioned Ministers. ...................................462
13-45 To Affirm, Encourage, and Expand Supervised
Ministry of Licensed Deacons. ...........................462
13-46 To Affirm Licensed Deacon Program..................463
13-47 To Establish Licensed Deacon Program as Regular
Approved Word and Sacrament Ministry............463
13-48 To Bring End to District Licensed Lay Deacon
Programs. ............................................................463
13-49 To Uphold Our Stated Confession of Office of the
Ministry...............................................................464
13-50 To Develop Better Understanding of Office of
Public Ministry. ..................................................464

14. Church and Culture
Reports
R1, R1.1, R1.2, R1.3, R11, R59

Overtures
14-01 To Establish a Legal Defense Fund.....................465
14-02 To Address Public Issues Strongly. .....................465
14-03 To Declare It Contrary to Holy Scripture to Join in
Prayer with Those Who Deny Jesus Christ.........465
14-04 To Change Name of Synod to Concordia Lutheran
Synod. .................................................................465
14-05 To Identify and Respond to Incursions against
Religious Freedoms by Radical Elements of
Islam....................................................................466
14-06 To Encourage the Synod to Bear Witness to What
We Believe, Teach, and Confess re Marriage. ....466
14-07 To Give Witness to Inseparability of Marriage,
Life, and Family..................................................467
14-08 To Support Holy Marriage at Every Level of Our
Life Together.......................................................468
14-09 To Request Changes in LSB Agenda’s Rite of
Marriage..............................................................468
14-10 To Consider Ceasing to Act as Agents of the
Governing Authority re Marriage Certificates....470
14-11 To Encourage Pastors and Congregations to
Administer Marriage Faithfully. .........................470
14-12 To Advise Ordained Ministers to Refrain from
Solemnizing Marriages.......................................471
14-13 To Encourage Congregations to Review and
Update Policies Associated with Bible’s Teaching
on Marriage.........................................................471
14-14 To Study Officiating of Marriages.......................471
14-15 To Inform Synod Members of Objectives of
Islam....................................................................471
2016 Convention Workbook