# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2023_S60
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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OFFICER, BOARD, AND COMMISSION REPORTS
New Atheism

the past triennium the commission has provided several new evaluations. New topics addressed include Alpha Course, Fellowship of
Christian Athletes, Gideons International, Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer Ministries, Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, Newer Atheists, Red
Letter Christians, Secularism, Shriner’s International, and Universalism. A goal of the commission is to continue to provide Spanishlanguage translations of its evaluations. The entire current listing of
topics addressed by CTCR evaluations includes:

Newer Atheists
Rastafarians
Red Letter Christians
Reiki
Restorationism
Salvation Army

Lodge Organizations:

Satanism

Elks Lodge

Secular Humanism (also available in Spanish)

Fraternal Order of Eagles

Secularism

The Lodge

Seventh-day Adventism (also available in Spanish)

Membership in Certain Fraternal Organizations: A Pastoral
Approach (also available in Spanish)

Shriner’s International
Swedenborgianism (New Church)

Moose International

The International Churches of Christ (also available in Spanish)

Other Religious Organizations and Movements:
Alpha Course

The Occult (also available in Spanish)

Abrahamic Religions

Theophostic Prayer Ministry

Baha’i Faith

Transhumanism

Beth Moore Ministries (also available in Spanish)

Unification Church (also available in Spanish)

Buddhism (also available in Spanish)

Unitarian-Universalist Association (UUA)

Center for Progressive Christianity

United Pentecostal Church International

Christian Identity Movement

Unity School of Christianity

Christian Reconstructionism

Universalism

Christian Science (also available in Spanish)

Vineyard Ministries

Church of Scientology (also available in Spanish)

Wicca

Churchless Christianity

Word-Faith Movement

Cults—An Overview (also available in Spanish)

Yoga

Cursillo Movement (also available in Spanish)

Lawrence Rast, Chairman
Joel D. Lehenbauer, Executive Director
(Approved by the CTCR, February 17, 2023)

Emergent Church
Enneagram
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Gideons International

R13

Pastoral Formation Committee

Gnosticism
God’s Learning Channel
Hinduism
Human Potential Movement
Islam (also available in Spanish)
Jehovah’s Witnesses (also available in Spanish)
Joel Osteen
Joyce Meyer Ministries

The Synod’s Pastoral Formation Committee (PFC), comprised
of the Chief Mission Officer (chair, voting), the presidents of the
seminaries (voting), and the Executive Director of the Office of
Pastoral Education (nonvoting advisory), is tasked with the following regular assignments under 2019 Bylaw 3.10.4ff.:
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Ensure that the Synod’s objective of training pastors is filled
consistently.

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Recommend any new routes leading to ordination for approval by resolution of the Synod (following consultation
with the seminaries’ boards of regents in their annual joint
meeting).

•

Review, assess, coordinate, support, and make suggestions
for improvement of all existing noncolloquy routes leading
to ordination in the Synod.

•

Monitor and receive reports from all directors and committees charged with oversight of all routes to ordination and

Judaism
Kabbalah
Latter Day Saints (also available in Spanish)
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Near Death Experiences (also available in Spanish)
New Age Movement
2023 Convention Workbook