# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2004_S464
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

464 OTHER PERTINENT DOCUMENTS

not to be understood as distinct from the first, however, as was
clear from the discussion which preceded the adoption of the State-
ment at the September meeting.

4. See 1971 Convention Workbook, 244.

5. Res. 3-11, 1981 Convention Proceedings, 156; Res. 3-09,
1986 Convention Proceedings, 144.

6. Convention Proceedings, 118.

7. In a previous draft of the present Report it was argued that
by “public accountability” the 1985 Women in the Church docu-
ment had meant merely “the accountability inherent in the pastoral
office.” But note that all previous discussions (including the 1985
Report) use the language of “public accountability for the func-
tioning of the pastoral office.” In the present Report this concept
too is collapsed into the pastoral office alone.

8. “For Christ did not send me with a commission to engage in
baptizing but to do preaching of the Gospel.” It is true, of course,
that in Eph. 4:11 the words “pastors” (poimenas) and “teachers”
(didaskalous) are preceded by one article (tous) and linked by the
word “and (kai;)” but these terms conclude a listing of gifts/offices
in the church and this may well be an example of a common stylis-
tic feature of Paul used to conclude a recitation of individual items

2004 Convention Workbook

in a list. See, e.g., the conclusion of the list in Gal. 3:28 (kai theelu).
At any rate, this point must be argued.

9. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom
teaching (didaskontes) and admonishing yourselves with psalms,
hymns, and spiritual songs....”

Related is the question what the teaching mentioned in this
verse concerns. Does it concern all sorts of topics? religious matters
only? Answers to such questions help to determine if the pastoral
office is in view at all.

10. “Older women, similarly, ought to be properly reverent in
behavior, not devils, not enslaved to much wine, noble teachers
(kalodidaskalous).”

11. Later, in 1 Tim. 5:9, 16 [cf. Acts 6:1], Paul deals with very
earthly matters of care of widows in the congregation.

12. ouden/ “and not” joins the two words. The use of de
“and’”), as well as its compounds ouden/meeden (‘and not”), in
1 Timothy always strongly suggests a move to a different topic or
to quite a different aspect of a topic. See, e.g., 2:15 and 1:4.

13. The 1985 “Women in the Church” document’s treatment of
this issue is very brief, encompassing only several sentences.

14, The latter question is explored in some detail in the 1985
document only.