# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1998_S372
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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES

To Empower Women to Be Ail They Should Be .... 175
To Encourage Leadership Training ............... 175
To Permit Congregations to Decide Role of Women as
Officers... cee eens 175
To Encourage Adoption of “The Service of Women in
Congregational Offices” ............ 000. ee eee 175
To Reaffirm That Only Men May Hold the Pastoral

Office ....... Lecce eee een eee eee ens 175
To Reaffirm Teaching That Ordination of Women to
Pastoral Office IsaSin 2.0.0.0... 0.0... cee eee eee 175
To Forbid Reading of Scriptures by Women in Public
SEPVICE 2. cece ene ete 175
To Grant Eligibility to Women for All Congregational
Offices 2... cee eae ... 176
To Declare Women Eligible for Office of Congregation
President... 0... ccc cece ete eee tte 176
To Address Women Leading Chapel Services at

Valparaiso University ......... 0.00. e eee eee eee 176
To Reject Subordinationism ................0065 176
‘To Prohibit Use of Gender Neutral Bibles and Women
Assisting in Worship at Schools of CUS ........... 177
To Ordain Lay Ministers ............. 0.0000 177
To Reaffirm Vocation of Holy Ministry ........... 177
To Affirm Office of Pastor ........ 00.0.0. 0 eee 178
To Require Laymen Who Seek Ordination to Complete
Program of Seminary Study ..................05- 178
To Study and Develop Standardization for Interim

Ministry . 00... eee eee eee 178
To State Position on Ministry ................08 178
To Reject Temporary Calls for Pastors ............ 179
To Reject Temporary Calls of Pastors ............. 179

‘To Support Historic Position on Church and Ministry 180

To Study C.F.W. Walther’s Theses on Church and

Ministry (Kirche Und Amt) 0.0.0.0. 0c eee eee 180
To Institute the Office of Called Elder ............ 180
To Reaffirm Christological Identity of Office of the

Holy Ministry... 0.0.0... ccc eee eee eee ee 180

To Instruct “Permanent Vacancies” and Congregations
Being Served by “Retired” Pastors to Call Their

PastOrs 2.0... cee eee tee eens 181
To Direct District Conventions in 2000 to Include
Essays on Office of the Pastor .........---.0000 0 181

To Encourage Resumption of Discussions with RIM . 182
To Encourage Resumption of Discussions with RIM . 182

To Reject Renewal in Missouri ...............56- 182
To Affirm Support for RIM ..... 0.0.0.6... 20 e eee 182
To Call for Repentance and Return of All Involved in

RIM Movement ..........0 6. e ee eee eens 183
To Warn Congregations of False Teachings of Promise
Keepers Movement ........... 0... e eee e eee eee 183
To Request Fort Wayne Seminary Faculty to Do

In-depth Study of Promise Keepers ............... 183
To Reject Participation in Promise Keepers ........ 183
To Reaffirm the CTCR Position on Gambling ...... 183
To Assign CTCR Functions to Seminary Faculties... 184
To Consider Terminating Services of CTCR........ 184
To Eliminate Commission on Theology and Church
Relations 2.0.0... 0... cece ccc eens 184
To Abolish the CTCR ............ 0c cece eee 184
To Appoint Blue Ribbon Committee to Review

Procedures of CTCR ..... 2... ccc eee eee eee 184

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To Disband Commission on Theology and Church

Relations 2.0.2... 0... cece eee ence eee 185
To Support Declaration on Families and Oppose

Human Cloning ............ 000.0. e eee eee eee 185
To Request CTCR Study Document on Issues Raised

by Cloning ....... 0... cece cece ee eee eee 186
To Have CTCR Study Cloning and Harvesting of

Human Organs ......... 0.0000 e eens 186
To Commend “That They May Have Life” ......... 186
To Oppose Abortion and Commend Lutherans for

| (a 186
To Request Opinion of CTCR Re LCMS Membership

amd Public Abortion Policy Stance .............-. 186

To Reject Fetal Tissue Research and Fetal Tissue
Transplantation Obtained from Abortion on Demand

and Partial Birth Abortion ...............500 005 187
To Condemn Fetal Tissue Usage ..............--. 187
To Encourage Lutherans to Reconsider Buying or

Using Disney Products ........ 0.200. e eee 187
To Oppose Homosexual Activity and Participate in

Boycott 2.0... cece eee ene eee 188
To Consider Boycott of Disney Products .......... 188
To Protest Disney’s Contra Civilization Behavior ... 189
To Use Boycotting Responsibly ................. 189
To Maintain Confession of Only Three Creeds

in LCMS Congregations ........... 0.00 eee eeeee 189

To Codify Use of Only the Three Universal Creeds .. 190
To Maintain Confession of Historic Creeds in LCMS

Congregations 2.0.2... 0.0... cece cece eens 190
To Develop a Twenty-First Century Formula of

Concord 26... ice eee teen e eens 190
To Encourage Confessional Study Groups ......... 19]

To Differentiate Between Doctrines and Traditions .. 191
To Emphasize Synod’s Evangelical Advisory Relation
to Its Members re Ratification of Doctrinal Resolutions 191

To Ratify Doctrinal Resolutions ................. 192
To Clarify Differences Between Lutheran and

Reformed Churches .......... 000s ese en een enne 192
To Encourage the Synod in Convention to Keep the

Main Thing the Main Thing..................04. 192
To Encourage Mutual Accountability ............. 193

To Confess All Doctrines of Bible and Reaffirm
Brief Statement and Statement of Scriptural and

Confessional Principles ........... 0. 0c cece eens 193
To Take More Seriously the Words Faith and

PHACHICE Co eee een eens 193
To Send Delegated Observer to WCC Assembly at

Harare... cee cette eens 193
To Join Lutheran World Federation ............... 194
To Support Inter-Lutheran and Inter-Christian

Partnerships ........0.00 0.0. e eee renee eens 194
To Appoint Ethnic Doctrinal Review Panels ........ 194

To Remove Certification for The Goal of the Gospel 194
To Declare Jesus Christ Is Only Way to Heaven;

Christianity Is Only True and Saving Faith ......... 195
To Reaffirm Justification by Faith Alone in the Merits

of Jesus Christ 2... eee een ee 195
To Declare Millennialism Contrary to Bible ........ 195
To Require LCMS Theologians to Affirm Direct

Messianic Prophecy .......... 0: e cece ee ee eee 196

To Prepare Detailed Position Statement on Church
Growth Movement .......... 0.00. c cece ee eee 196