# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_May 16 1986_S1
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

committee assignments were made: Congregational Ministries and Higher Education - Roland Hopmann;
Leadership and Organization - Judge Schnelz; Witness and Outreach and Goals and Resources - Judge
Groh; Theology and Church Relations and Human Care - Dr. Schlecht.
When the names of the floor committee chairmen are made known, members of the Commission are
asked to contact the chairmen indicating that they will be present for the floor committee meetings.
The Commission also reviewed overtures which will be coming before the convention requesting that
certain opinions, particularly with regard to the eligibility of Dr. Preus for membership on the Board for
Mission Services, be over-ruled. Other overtures asked that opinions of the Commission on Constitutional
Matters be published and that interested parties be notified of the matters which are coming before the
Commission on Constitutional Matters.
214. Adjournment : Having concluded its business, the Commission on Constitutional Matters
adjourned its meeting.
Walter Rosin, Secretary

Minutes of the Commission on Constitutional Matters - Conference Call - May 16, 1986
(Dr. Richard Schlecht absent
215. Authority for Executive Termination (Ag. 1777) : The Board for Parish Services had forwarded to
Dr. Bohlmann as Chairman of the Board of Directors, the following resolution:
WHEREAS, For a period of six years, Dr. Victor A. Constien has not been serving "at the
pleasure of the Board" because of his declining leadership, and, especially his continuing lack of
concern for sound Lutheran doctrine as exemplified in many LCMS publications produced under
his jurisdiction and practices not reflecting the theological integrity of synod, and
WHEREAS, during this time the Board for Parish Services has had to request Concordia
Publishing House to withdraw publications, to return others to the Doctrinal Review
Commission, and
WHEREAS, the Board has repeatedly confronted Dr. Constien with the Board's displeasure
regarding his continuing liberal theological propensity, and
WHEREAS, the Board has continually dealt with this conflict in a Christian and evangelical
manner, and
WHEREAS, the Board has been dealing with this conflict under two synodical presidents, and
WHEREAS, in a meeting with our synodical president, Chicago, 1982, the Board began its most
recent efforts in the collegial process of seeking resolution of this conflict, and
WHEREAS, the Board has repeatedly asked Dr. Constien to resign, and
WHEREAS, the Board for Parish Services has been forced to spend many hundreds of fruitless
man-hours trying to resolve this conflict, using suggestions from our synodical president which