# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_JULY 2 1963_S6
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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1   GUIDELINES for the Constitution and

1   Bylaws of a Lutheran Church

           4'as of July 2,


                                        The Constitution




]      *\''" <3od requires that a Christian congregation shall conform to Mis divine Word

               attd practice <Ps. 119:105; Matt. 28:18-20; Gal. 1:6-8; 2 Tim. 4:1-5) and

       :"-%tl things be done decently and in order (I Cor. 14:40).   Therefore we, the mem-

                                                  Lutheran Church, located at

                                , accept and subscribe to the following Constitution and By -

                         with which all spiritual and material affairs of our congregation




                                              NAME

                             is congregation shall be




                      i* of this congregation shall be to seek the honor

                             to manifest the unity of our faith in Jesus

                      the Kingdom of God and to foster Christian fellowship and love,

                              Word of God, by the administration of the Sacraments, and

                    instruction of all its members, according to the

                              Lutheran Church {Article III).