# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2023_S147
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OFFICER, BOARD, AND COMMISSION REPORTS
1.5.1.2
No one, either in the Synod or a district, or between the
Synod and a district, shall hold more than one elective office; or
hold more than two offices, although one or both be appointive;
or ever hold two offices of which one is directly responsible for
the work done by the other.
(a) An office shall be regarded as elective only if it is an office
filled through election by a national or a district convention,
even though a vacancy in such an office may be filled by appointment.
(b) Elected and appointed positions on boards of regents of affiliated colleges and universities are regarded as offices for
the purposes of this bylaw.
(bc) Doubtful cases shall be decided by the President of the
Synod.
Every board or commission member, officer, and all
1.5.1.3
staff of corporate Synod and, of every agency of the Synod, and
of every affiliated college and university shall be sensitive in
their activities to taking or giving offense, giving the appearance of impropriety, causing confusion in the Synod, or creating
potential liability.
Individual members of the Synod’s commissions and
1.5.7
the boards of its agencies and of boards of regents of affiliated
colleges and universities, as well as the individual members of
its Board of Directors, shall discharge the duties of their offices
in good faith. The following are considered cause for removal
pursuant to this bylaw:
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Unless otherwise specified in these Bylaws, the proce1.5.7.1
dure for removal of a member of a commission, agency board,
or the LCMS Board of Directors, or of an elected member of an
affiliated college or university board of regents, except for those
persons subject to Bylaw sections 2.15 and 2.16, shall be as follows:
The Synod, in seeking to clarify its witness or to settle
1.6.2
doctrinal controversy, so that all who seek to participate in the
relationships that exist within and through the Synod may benefit and may act to benefit others, shall have the right to adopt
doctrinal resolutions and statements which are in harmony with
Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions.
(b) Doctrinal statements set forth in greater detail the position
of the Synod especially in controverted matters. A proposed
statement or a proposal for the development of such a statement shall be
(1) submitted by the Commission on Theology and Church
Relations or submitted to the Commission on Theology
and Church Relations by a convention of the Synod (including that of a district), a seminary faculty of the Synod,
the faculty of an affiliated college or university (with only
the voting or full-time faculty who are in good standing as
individual members of the Synod or are members in good
standing of a member congregation of the Synod participating), or an official district conference of ordained and/
or commissioned ministers for evaluation, refinement, development, or recommendation, as the case may be;
(2) submitted by the commission, if it acts favorably, to
the colleges, universities, seminaries, congregations, and
other members of the Synod, as well as to the faculties of
affiliated colleges and universities (with only the voting or
full-time faculty who are in good standing as individual

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members of the Synod or are members in good standing
of a member congregation of the Synod participating) for
study and suggestions for no more than one year (failure
by the commission to submit a proposed doctrinal statement within a year may be appealed to the Synod in convention through a proper overture);
Definition
Doctrinal review is the exercise of the Synod’s respon1.9.1
sibility to determine that every doctrinal statement made in its
or any of its agencies’ or, auxiliaries’, and affiliates’ materials is
in accord with the Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions.
Material Subject to Doctrinal Review
1.9.1.1
The following materials are subject to doctrinal review:
(d) Each of the Synod’s schools seminaries and affiliated
colleges and universities is accountable to the Synod through
its respective president and board of regents for the content
of its professional journals and all of its published materials that are not the official publications of the Synod (Bylaw
3.4.3.7). The editorial boards of such publications shall serve
as their own doctrinal reviewers.
To remain on the roster of the Synod as an active mem2.11.1
ber, an ordained or commissioned minister of religion must be
a communicant member of a congregation that is a member of
the Synod (except as provided in paragraph [c] below) and be
regularly performing the duties of one of the following:
(g) A person serving on the faculty or professional staff of an
educational institution of the Synod or of an affiliated college
or university.
Officers of the Synod, district presidents, and represen3.1.4
tatives of the Synod’s boards, commissions, educational institutions seminaries, affiliated colleges and universities, mission
areas, chaplains, and district boards of directors shall also serve
as advisory representatives to the convention of the Synod.
3.1.4.2
Each educational institution seminary of the Synod
and each affiliated college and university shall be represented at
conventions of the Synod.
(a) Educational institutions of the Synod Such institutions shall
be represented by one board member in addition to the district president, by their presidents, and by one faculty member for every 30 full-time faculty members who are members
of the Synod.
Overtures to a convention of the Synod may be sub3.1.6.2
mitted only by a member congregation of the Synod, a convention or board of directors of a district, an official district conference of ordained and/or commissioned ministers, the faculty of
an educational institution a seminary of the Synod, the Board
of Directors of the Synod, a board or commission of the Synod
listed in Bylaws 3.2.2, 3.2.2.1, 3.2.3, and 3.2.3.1, a board of
regents or faculty (with only the voting or full-time faculty who
are in good standing as individual members of the Synod or
are members in good standing of a member congregation of
the Synod participating) of an affiliated college or university,
a committee established by a prior convention, or a forum of a
circuit.
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3.3.1.1.1 The President of the Synod has ecclesiastical supervision of all officers of the Synod and its agencies, the individual
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