# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_JULY 2 1963_S7
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           ARTICLE III



    j                                             DOCTRINAL STANDARD

•                      A.       This congregation acknowledges and accepts all the canonical books of

•         the Old Testament and the New Testament as the revealed and inerrant Word of God,

I         verbally inspired, and submits to them as the only infallible authority in alt matters
          of faith and life.

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                       B.       This congregation acknowledges and accepts all the confessional writings

'         of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, contained in the Book of Concord of the year

|          IS80, as true and genuine expositions of the doctrines of the Bible. These conies*
'         Slonal writings are the three Ecumenical Creeds (Apostles', Nieene, and Athanasian),

•         the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the

          Smalcald Articles, Luther*s Large and Small Catechisms, and the Formula of Concord.



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                                                         MEMBERSHIP

                      The membership of this congregation includes the following:

                      A.        BAPTIZED MEMBERSHIP

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i_.     -.--,-.      . ■_>>     *...■* :B|^S5«d members -are all members who have-'been baptised ,la the'

                                     f^ God and who are under the spiritual care of the pastor of this

                                         Pig th« children who h^ve not yet confirmed tteeir baptismal




                                            members are received thrpugh the ^ac|?amettt of Holy

                      1/ trough transfer, or with the consent of one or both parents or guardians

          in the case of children who have been baptized in another Christian congregation.