# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2001_S465 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 466 3-97 3-98 3-99 3-100 3-101 3-102 3-103 3-104 3-105 3-106 3-107 3-108 3-109 3-110 3-411 3-112 3-113 3-114 3-115 3-116 3-117 3-118 3-119 3-120 3-121 3-{22 3-123 3-124 3-425 3-126 3-]27 3-128 3-129 3-130 3-131 3-132 3-133 3-134 3-135 3-136 3-137 LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES To Affirm Lay Ministry .........0....0...00.005 To Expand Lay Assistant Training Programs ....... To Permit Lay Leadership of Worship Services ..... To Reaffirm Position of Synod re Women in Pastoral Office... 0... eee To Restudy Women’s Ordination ...-..........0.. To Adopt CTCR Report on Role of Wornen inChurch 0.0.0... ee eee To Instruct CTCR to Restudy Question of Women’s Ministry ............. 0.20.0 -00 20 To Declare in Constitution That Only Men May Be Pastors ........0 0002. c eee eee eee To Not Recognize or Advocate Women Pastors ..... To Codify Opposition to Ordination of Women in Handbook . 20.00.0600 eee To Adopt CTCR 1994 Report as Official Position ... To Clarify Terms Related to Pastoral Office ........ To Study Other Lutheran Church Materials te Ordination of Women ...........0.-0 2-002 ae To Advocate Lutheran Church of Australia Approach re Ordination of Women ............... To Appoint Task Force to Prepare Study on Ordination of Women ........ 00.0.0 eee eee To Clarify Stance on Role of Women in the Church .. To Reject as False Doctrine the Opinion that Women May Be Pastors ..................4. To Not Solve Pastoral Shortage with Women’s Ordination ...................... To Discontinue Gender Discrimination in Pastoral Office . 6.2.0... eee eee To Eliminate Gender Discrimination .............. To Affirm Service of Women Including Pastoral Ministry 2.22... ...00...0.00 2.200 e eee To Encourage Participation of Women in Delivery of the Word .................-.-000. To Allow Women Elders on Basis of CCM Opinion . To Encourage Women to Serve in Any Congregational Office except Pastor .............. To Grant Eligibility of Women for Leadership Positions in Congregations ......... To Affirm Women as Teachers of Theology ........ To More Widely Use God's Gifts through Women .. . To Examine Theological Implications of Women Serving as Combat Warriors in Armed Forces ...... To Require Male Theology Professors ............ To Reject Women’s Suffrage ........-.0..2..-0.-- To Require Disassociation from Renewal in Missouri To Ask Renewal in Missouri to Disband ........... To Ask Supporters of Position of Seminex to Retract . To Direct President to Address Continuing Concerns re Serninex Supporters ...........0...02. To Encourage Formation of “Daughter” Church Body To Encourage Private Confession and Absolution ... To Assist in Recovery of Private Confession and Absolution ...........0.0.000005 To Encourage Baptism of Infants at Earliest Opportunity 2.0... eee ee eens To Adopt Guidelines re Pastoral Care and Privileged Communications ................- To Expand Guidelines re Pastoral Care Privileged Communication .................000- To Reject All Forms of Millennialism ............. 2001 Convention Workbook 19} 196 196 196 197 197 198 198 198 199 199 199 200 200 4-01 4-02 4-03 4-04 4-05 4-06 4-07 4-08 5-01 5-02 5-04 5-05 5-06 5-07 5-08 5-09 5-10 5-11 5-16 5-17 5-18 5-19 5-20 5-21 5-22 5-23 5-24 5-25 4. Program and Finance To Support Work of CHI through 75th-Anniversary Thankoffering .......... To Direct Synod and Districts to Evaluate Use of Resources ............-..005. To Revise Bylaws to Reflect Transfer of Capital Funding Services ..................4.. To Disclose Amount and Use of Grant Monies ...... To Place Restrictions on Special Grants to President’s Office ......0....0.. 0.000022 eee To Retain Youth Gathering Funds for Future Gatherings ............00.0 000.0 ce eee To Not Accept Valpo Advertising for Lutheran Wimess 0.0.0... 0 ce eee To Recognize 100th Anniversary of Michigan District CEF.........0...0....0.05- 5, Higher Education To Retain Composition and Qualifications of Seminary Boards of Regents .................. To Amend Bylaw to Increase Membership of CUS Boards of Regents ...............-.0.04. To Increase Membership of Boards of Regents by Four .... 0.0.00... cc eee eee eee To Increase University Boards of Regents by Four . . . To Increase Seminary Boards of Regents by Two.... To Amend Bylaw to Restore Three-Year Terms for Regents .............. 000. c cee eee To Amend Bylaw to Provide Process for Ecclesiastical Supervision of Synod’s Schools ............0..-5 To Restore Pre-1998 Bylaw re Closure of Colleges and Universities. ........... To Amend Bylaw re BHE Planning............... To Disallow Teachers in Synod Schools Who Oppose Confessional Position. .............. To Investigate Doctrine and Practice at Concordia, Portland 2.0.0.0... 00... eee eee To Set Aside District Resolution re Concordia, Portland ...............0.. 02000 ee To Require Evidence and Bylaw Response to Allegations from Iowa District East ............ To Affirm Constitution Procedure for Addressing Accusations and Complaints ........ To Develop Standard for Training of Professional Church Workers ............2...- To Not Allow Districts to Prepare Pastors .......... To Remove Psychological Profiling and Restore Theological Interviews at Seminaries ... To Restore Theological Interviews at Seminaries .. . To Involve Congregations in Certification for Ordination ...... 2.0.0.0... e cece eee ee To Make Financial Counseling Available to Seminary Students ...................-..0050. To Include Clinical Pastoral Education in Seminary Curriculi... 0.6.0.0... ee eee eee To Require Teaching that Ordination Is Not a Sacrament ......... 000000000 eee eee eee To Provide Chaplains for Seminaries ............. To Encourage Cooperative Work between Seminaries To Assure that Creation Is Taught in Synod’s Schools ........0 0... e eee eee eee 203 203 203 204 204 204 204 205 205 205 206 206 206 207 207 208 208 208 208 209 210 21] 2t1 211 212 212 212 213 213 213 213