# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2001_S463
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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES

2. Congregational Services

To Revise Bylaws re Congregational Services ......
To Maintain Stewardship Department within Synod. .
To Address Concerns re Mission and Ministry
Electronic Catalog ... 2.0.0.0... 00 cee eee eee
To Create Board of Recruitment .................
To Explore Innovative Ways to Meet Need

for Pastors 2.6... cee eee
To Establish Special Sunday

and Offering for Seminaries .................-05.
To Establish Synodwide Seminary Sunday .........
To Address Conditions Contributing

to Church-Worker Shortages .............---000-
To Preserve Our Pastors ..........0. 00000020000.
To Address the Mistreatment of Pastors ...........
To Support Pastors’ Continuing Education .........
To Affirm Content of District President

Letter re Removal of Pastors .................0..
To Authorize Task Force for Study of Synod Staffing
To Give Consideration to Persons Other than Pastors
for District and Synod Positions ...........-.....
To Remove Clergy Requirement for Some

Synod Offices... 00. cece eee eee
To Provide for Pastoral Severance

and Second Placement ............. 0.000 c eee
To Encourage Call of CRM Pastors ...............
To Establish Placement Process for CRM Pastors

To Provide Alternative Pastoral Placement .........
To Place Candidates by Drawing Lots .............
To Make Completed SETs Available

to Calling Congregations ...................00..
To Provide Pastoral Reference Forms

to Calling Congregations ............0.....0.00.
To Refer RSO TF Report to BCS ................
To Discontinue Joint LCMS/ELCA Schools .......-
To Express Concern over RSO Task Force Report .. .
To Continue ELCA/LCMS RSOs ............--..
To Affirm Congregational Involvement

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To Reject Recommendations of RSO Task Force . ...
To Reject TF Report and Support

RSO School Associations ..............0..00000.
To Reject Efforts to Remove RSO Status

from Pan-Lutheran Schools .................000.
To Encourage Pan-Lutheran Schools ..............
To Affirm Pan-Lutheran RSO School Associations . .
To Encourage Support of Pan-Lutheran High Schools
To Encourage All Congregations to Implement
Effective Evangelism Programs ................-.
To Encourage Follow-Up for Members Who Move ..
To Commend Church Growth Document

for Guidance and Study ...............00...200.
To Make Use of Church Growth Report ...........
Overture on Church Growth Movement ..........-
To Uphold Position of Synod re Homosexual
Relationships ......... 0.0.0.0. e eee eee eee
To Reject and Request Revision

of Report on Ministry to Homosexuals ............
To Revise 1999 Report re Ministry to Homosexuals . .
To Commend CPH for New Materials ............
To Continue to Publish Good Materials re Creation . .

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To Encourage Use of CPH Curriculum Materials ... .
To Encourage CPH to Enter Broader Book Market ..
To Direct CPH to Publish Special Edition

of Small Catechism .......0. 0.0.0... 00 000020
To Urge CPH to Publish Revised Lutheran
Cyclopedia oo. cette
To Produce Devotional Resources for Pastors .......
To Publish Two Rivers to Freedom ...............
To Affirm Lutheran Confessional

Principles for Public Worship .........-.. 20-0505
To Return to Use of Approved Orders of Worship ...
To Encourage Use and Promotion of Historic
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To Promote Use of Liturgical Orders and Hymns ....
To Discourage Regular Use of Unapproved

Orders of Worship ..........0 000.000. 000 eeeee
To Restore Harmony in Lutheran Worship Practice ..
To Commend Commission on Worship ...........
To Direct Commission on Worship re Use of Creeds .
To Approve Field-Testing Plan for New Hymnal ....
To Research and Address Members’ Attitudes

re Historic Liturgy ............. 000.002.202.000.
To Encourage Careful but Evangelical

Attitude Toward Worship Practice ...............
To Provide Culturally Relevant Worship Materials |.
To Be Gender Sensitive in New Hymnal...........
To Provide Distinctively Lutheran Worship

at National Youth Gatherings .................-.
To Recognize AAT Bible Translation .............
To Recommend Use of 4th Edition of AAT ........
To Develop Ministry to Couples Living Together .. .

3. Theology and Church Relations

To Formally Declare Altar and Pulpit Fellowship
with Lanka Lutheran Church of Sn Lanka .........
To Formalize Altar and Pulpit Fellowship

with Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti .........
To Declare Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania .........
To Extend Altar and Pulpit Fellowship

to Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania .......
To Reach Out Aggressively to Emerging

Lutheran Churches .....0..0.0-0..000 000 c cee eeee
To Promote True Unity of Doctrine and Practice ....
To Continue Study of Fellowship

Principles and Practices ........ 0.0.0.0... 0.000.
To Continue Study and Discussion

of Church Fellowship .............. 0000000000 ee
To Restudy “The Lutheran Understanding

of Church Fellowship” ............0. 00000000008
To Return Study to CTCR for Further Study ........
To Undertake a Synodical Study of Book of Concord
To Reaffirm and Clarify Practice

re Pulpit Fellowship and Closed Communion .......
To Affirm Ruling re Unionism ..................
To Promote True Unity of Teaching and Practice ....
To Address Backdoor Losses

with Consistency in Doctrine and Practice .........
To Reject “The Lutheran Understanding

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