# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2016_S340
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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LIFE TOGETHER

the Synod” by directing the Council of Presidents to engage in a
Koinonia process on three topics of controversy in the Synod, with
progress publicly reported (2013 Res. 3-01A), no report of substantive
progress in the direction of unity and practice has yet been provided;
therefore be it
Resolved, That the Montana District memorialize the 2016 LCMS
convention to direct that this triennium’s program agenda for the
Council of Presidents—that is, the entire part of its meetings not
devoted to various Bylaw-mandated administrative tasks and deliberations—be organized by the President of the Synod and not by the
Council of Presidents or a subcommittee thereof; and be it further
Resolved, Likewise, to memorialize the Synod convention that
the program agenda devised by the President for the council shall be,

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in whole and in part, concerned with advancing the “unity of doctrine and practice in all the districts of the Synod” and with counsel
regarding the “doctrine and administration of the Synod,” with opportunity for input and mutual counsel by other members of the council
but within the program agenda set forth by the President under this
directive of the Synod; and be it finally
Resolved, Likewise, to memorialize the Synod that the President of
the Synod shall, through the Synod’s official publications, deliver pertinent, detailed, timely, and regular reports of the council’s progress
in working toward “unity of doctrine and practice in all the districts
of the Synod.”
Montana District