# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S191
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9. STRUCTURE AND ADMINISTRATION
minor have been established at CUW/CUWAA,
emphasizing confessional theology, the practical
application of theology in a variety of auxiliary
functions within congregational contexts, and the
supporting role that a DCM provides to the Office of
Public Ministry.
The solution proposed by COH is the following
constitutional amendment, which would address
individual membership and advisory representation as
follows:
1. To treat individual membership in the Synod as
distinct from voting and advisory convention
participation. The former will be treated in Const.
Art. V B; the latter, in Const. Art. IX, for the Synod
convention, and XII 10, for district conventions
(compare Bylaws 1.2.1 [l]; 3.1.2–3.1.2.1; 3.1.3–3.1.4.6).
2. To treat the broadest categories of individual
membership more clearly in the Constitution of the
Synod, in a manner reflecting Walther’s Church and
Office, leaving commonly-amended details, or those
calling for more extensive elaboration than
appropriate to the Constitution, to the Bylaws (for
example, specifying those auxiliary offices
recognized for commissioning in a new Bylaw
2.6.1.1).
3. To have the same sense as existing constitutional
language, except where the above-noted problems
are addressed.
Therefore be it
Resolved, That the Constitution of the Synod be amended,
in the articles here listed, as follows:
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING

B. Advisory Individual Members
Advisory Individual members only of the Synod, who are
non-voting except for those pastors exercising the vote of a
member congregation or congregations, are the following:
1. Pastors, ordained ministers, called and installed to a
member congregation
12. Pastors, ordained ministers, whose congregations do not
hold membership in the Synod
23. Ministers Ordained ministers, not in charge of called
and installed to a congregations, serving in a capacity
recognized in the Bylaws of the Synod
3. Professors at the Synod’s educational institutions
4. Teachers
of
the
Evangelical
Lutheran
ChurchCommissioned ministers equipped for service in
an auxiliary office of ministry designated in, and serving
in a capacity recognized by, the Bylaws of the Synod
5. Directors of Christian education
6. Directors of Christian outreach
7. Directors of family life ministry
8. Directors of parish music
9. Deaconesses
10. Parish assistants
11. Certified lay ministers
125. Candidates for the office of the ministry, ordained
ministers, or for an auxiliary office, commissioned
ministers, for that of a teacher of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church, for director of Christian education, for
director of Christian outreach, for director of family life
ministry, for director of parish music, for deaconess, for
certified lay minister, or for parish assistant having
formerly been installed to a first call within the Synod.
6. Emeriti of the office of the ministry, ordained ministers,
or of an auxiliary office, commissioned ministers.

Article V Membership

Article VI Conditions of Membership

Membership in the Synod is held and may be acquired by
congregations and individuals, ministers of religion—
ordained and ministers of religion—commissioned, such as
teachers, directors of Christian education, directors of
Christian outreach, directors of family life ministry, directors
of parish music, deaconesses, parish assistants, and certified
lay ministers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church who confess
and accept the confessional basis of Article II.

Conditions for acquiring and holding membership in the
Synod are the following:
…
3. Regular call of pastors, teachers, directors of Christian
education, directors of Christian outreach, directors of
family life ministry, directors of parish music,
deaconesses, certified lay ministers, and parish
assistants and any commissioned ministers and regular
election of lay delegates by the congregations, as also the
blamelessness of the life of such.
…
6. Pastors, teachers, directors of Christian education,
directors of Christian outreach, directors of family life
ministry, directors of parish music, deaconesses,
certified lay ministers, Ordained and commissioned
ministers or candidates for these offices not coming from
recognized orthodox church bodies must submit to a
colloquium before being received.
…

A. Voting Members
All organized congregations that have joined the Synod
hold voting membership. At the meetings of the districts of the
Synod every congregation or parish is entitled to two votes,
one of which is to be cast by the pastor and the other by the lay
delegate. At the meetings of the Synod a number of
congregations shall form a group which shall be represented
by two voting delegates, one a pastor and one a lay delegate.

Resolutions

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 (67TH) LCMS CONVENTION | 191