# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2023_S427
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SCHOOLS, FAMILY, YOUNG ADULTS, AND YOUTH
Resolved, That the Montana District memorialize the 2023
Synod convention to direct and coordinate the preparation and
production of biblically faithful textbooks/curricula across all
subject areas, for grades K–12; and be it further
Resolved, That this curriculum be among the highest priorities
for CPH; and be it further
Resolved, That the first drafts for textbook/curricula material be
made available by 2025 with the rest of the textbooks/curricula to
follow in a timely manner; and be it finally
Resolved, That CPH engage the expertise of LCMS university
and seminary faculties, as well as LCMS day school, high school,
and homeschool teachers for the development of these
textbooks/curricula.
Montana District
Ov. 12-04

To Produce Biblically Faithful
Textbooks/Curricula for Our Day Schools,
High Schools, and Home Schools
WHEREAS, Education in all subject areas is first and foremost
about what is taught, namely that which is good, true, and beautiful;
and
WHEREAS, Secular education in all subject areas is increasingly
subject to forces from anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-family, pro-death,
amoral, anti-truth, and even anti-beauty perspectives; and
WHEREAS, The Holy Scriptures provide the norm and framework
for knowledge in all subject areas, all being interwoven in
significant ways with right theology, ethics, history, and human
nature as revealed by God therein; and
WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) has
the second largest system of parochial schools in America, but too
often they are using secular textbooks/curricula, or publications
from non-Lutheran traditions; and
WHEREAS, Many Lutheran parents who homeschool their
children find good, biblically faithful textbook/curricula options to
be sorely lacking; and
WHEREAS, Christian schools and home schools in general would
benefit greatly from having more biblically faithful Christian
textbook/curricula options; and
WHEREAS, The natural sciences, especially biology and earth
sciences, are prone to the grievous errors of Darwinism and deep
time which directly undermine the integrity of the Scriptures, and
the Gospel itself by putting death before the fall; and
WHEREAS, The Discovery Works science textbooks available
from Concordia Publishing House (CPH) (the only day school
curricula available from CPH besides religion curriculum and some
lesson plans) are outdated (© 1999) and rather limited (grades 1–6);
and
WHEREAS, It was resolved in the 2019 Synod convention that
pastors and other church workers be encouraged to confess, witness
to, and uphold in their teaching the Synod’s publicly stated
positions as set forth in Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of
the Missouri Synod (adopted 1932):
We teach that God has created heaven and earth, and that in the
manner and in the space of time recorded in the Holy Scriptures,
especially Gen. 1 and 2, namely, by His almighty creative word,
and in six days. We reject every doctrine which denies or limits

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the work of creation as taught in Scripture. In our days it is
denied or limited by those who assert, ostensibly in deference to
science, that the world came into existence through a process of
evolution; that is, that it has, in immense periods of time,
developed more or less of itself. Since no man was present when
it pleased God to create the world, we must look for a reliable
account of creation to God’s own record, found in God’s own
book, the Bible. We accept God’s own record with full
confidence and confess with Luther’s Catechism: ‘I believe that
God has made me and all creatures’
which certainly should include the written word as presented to
students by their teachers via textbooks/curricula; and
WHEREAS, The need is urgent, for surveys show that 60 percent
of young adults raised as Christian are rejecting the faith (Ken Ham,
C. Britt Beemer, and Todd A. Hillard, Already Gone: Why Your
Kids Will Quit Church and What You Can Do to Stop It [Master
Books, 2009]), their doubts arising in middle school and high school
when Darwinism and its many related false “-isms” are preached by
the secular textbooks but either no counter-arguments for biblical
truth are available or those presented are inadequate; and
WHEREAS, The LCMS has a university system and two
seminaries housing expertise across all subject areas, including
early
childhood
education,
for
producing
excellent
textbooks/curricula for grades K–12 as well as providing
theologically sound editorial oversight to ensure content is
biblically faithful in its Christian apologetic (defending Gen. 1–11
as it defines marriage between one man and one woman, and human
nature as fallen, infected with original sin from Adam, but tells of
the seed of the woman, the second Adam, Who would crush Satan’s
head, and as it describes Earth’s early history with creation ex nihilo
in six natural days less than 10,000 years ago and the global flood
in Noah’s day); and
WHEREAS, The LCMS has its own publishing house; therefore,
be it
Resolved, That Circuit Three of the North Wisconsin District
memorialize the Synod in convention to direct and coordinate the
systematic preparation and production of biblically faithful
textbooks/curricula across all subject areas, prioritizing biological
and earth sciences, for grades K–12; and be it further
Resolved, That this curriculum be ready for market by 2024.
Circuit 3 (Rice Lake)
North Wisconsin District
Ov. 12-05

To Produce Religious Education Materials
WHEREAS, The teaching of the faith is part of the primary work
of the Church; and
WHEREAS, The use of doctrinally sound resources is part of the
covenant in which members of The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod (LCMS) walk together, according to Articles III and VI of
the Constitution of the Synod; and
WHEREAS, The faith is communicated with words and images;
therefore be it
Resolved, That the Atlantic District in convention petition the
LCMS to publish religious education materials including, but not
limited to, images and languages that better reflect and serve global
diversity (cf. Rev. 7); and be it further

2023 Convention Workbook