# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2004_S438
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438 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS—COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS

‘ministry’ and they are ‘public,’ yet they are not the office of the
public ministry. Rather, they are auxiliary to that unique pastoral
office, and those who hold these offices perform their assigned
functions under the supervision of the holders of the pastoral of-
fice. Such offices are established by the church as the need arises,
and their specific functions are determined by the church” (The
Ministry, 12).

97. C. F. W. Walther, Kirche und Amt [Church and Ministry],
trans. J. T. Mueller (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1987),
289-90.

98. Sasse, 128-29.

2004 Convention Workbook

99. The power of order and the power of jurisdiction (see Apol-
ogy XXVIII, Triglotta, 447) is the ancient nomenclature for the
power to absolve publicly (order) and the power to excommunicate
publicly (jurisdiction). The Lutheran confessors found this ancient
church language pleasing because it helps to clarify and delineate
the lines of authority, responsibility, accountability, and order.

100. Chemnitz, 34-35.

101. Lawrence R. Rast Jr., “Catholicity in Missourian Ortho-
doxy,” in Lutheran Catholicity: Volume 5 of the Pieper Lectures
(St. Louis: Concordia Historical Institute and the Luther Academy,
2001), 62-65.