# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2001_S91
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CONVENTION ESSAYS AND REACTIONS
5. See “Confirmation” in Lutheran Worship (St. Louis:
Concordia, 1982), 206.
6. Citations from the Lutheran Confessions are from
Theodore G. Tappert, trans. and ed., The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church (Phil.: Fortress, 1959).
7. Handbook of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod,
1998 ed., 9.
8. Article VII of the Synod’s Constitution describes the advisory character of the Synod in relationship to mem-

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ber congregations as having to do with a congregation’s
“right of self-government.” It does not refer to the binding character of our agreement in the Word of God.
1998 Synodical Handbook, 11.
9. “Introduction,” to C. F. W. Walther, “Communion
Fellowship,” in Essays for the Church, 2 vols. (St. Louis:
Concordia, 1992) 1:202. The basic argument of the present work comes from Walther’s essay.
10. Ibid.

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