# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2001_S85
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CONVENTION ESSAYS AND REACTIONS
23. The problem is not the boundaries but the lack of loyalty to the faith. See Gene Edward Veith, “Loyalty
Oafs,” World (June 16, 2001), 27.
24. 1 Cor 1:10.
25. 1 Cor 10:20.
26. 1 Tim 5:22; 2 John 1:11.
27. 2 John 1:11. St. Basil says, “It is obvious that those
who make friends of people who speak falsely about
God and who even eat with them do not love the Lord
who made them and feeds them. Instead of being content with that food they are led away into blasphemy
against the one who feeds them.” Basil the Great, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, Thomas C.
Oden, gen. ed., (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000) 11:237.

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28. 2 Cor 6:14.
29. Ap 7 and 8, 19.
30. Otherwise, we will find ourselves in the spiritually
perilous, even blasphemous position of making decisions based on criteria open only to God Himself. May
God, who alone sees the heart, preserve us from this.
31. 1 Cor 12.
32. 1 Cor 12:21, John 15:1–5. Disconnection from the true
Vine means death to the branches. This a fortiori is
the case for disconnection from the Head.
33. Rom 14:23. Teachings that are not Christ’s are not of
faith and therefore are sin.

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