# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2007_S159
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PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION
licity given to the appeal, nor an effort to circularize the Synod on a pending appeal.
(de) The panel shall after reviewing the published material declare, within 45 days following the expiry
of the 14-day response period provided in
3.9.3.2.2(c), whether the doctrinal review certification is affirmed or revoked based on whether
the published material is in agreement with the
Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions.
(1) that the doctrinal review certification of the
published material is affirmed because the item
is in agreement with Scripture and the Lutheran
Confessions; or
(2) that the doctrinal review certification of the
published material is revoked because the item is
not in agreement with Scripture and the
Lutheran Confessions.
(ef) If the panel revokes the doctrinal review certification, it must identify the part(s) of the item in
need of clarification, amplification, and/or deletion

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in order to bring it into agreement with Scripture
and the Lutheran Confessions, and withdraw the
publication until such agreement is reached.
(fg) The panel will appoint one of its members to be
the doctrinal reviewer for the recycling of the revised material to assure the item’s agreement
with Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions if
republished.

Action: Adopted (10)
(As discussion began, an amendment to add to Bylaw 1.9.1.1
(b) the words Each page of the document shall be prominently
marked “not doctrinally reviewed” was not adopted, as also was
an amendment to delete from the first sentence of Bylaw 1.9.1.l
(b) the words or immediately following the title page and replace
them with the cover and title page in print not smaller than fourteen-point type. A motion to divide the question was ruled a substitute motion, which the assembly declined to consider. The resolution was adopted as presented by the committee [Yes: 761; No:
119].)

2007 Convention Proceedings