# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1973_S484
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1-08A

1-08B
1-08C

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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES

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1. Missions

Report of Board for Missions re |
Report of Church Extension Board 22
To Investigate Mission Possibilities in South-
east Asia 24
To Expedite the Partial Decentralization of
Financial Responsibility 25
To Require Loyalty to Scriptures and Con-
fessions in Mission Fields 25
To Respond to Specific Needs of Community — 25

(Also 1-06B, C)
To Support Lutheran Bible Translators — 25
To Recognize Gamma Delta 26

(Also 1-08AA, AB, AC, AD)
To Place Gamma Delta in Budget 26

(Also 1-08BA)
To Declare Gamma Delta Sunday —_______-__. 26

(Also 1-08CA)
To Place Two Teachers on Board for Missions 26
To Reduce Number of Advisory Members _— 26
To Advise Board for Missions —__-.---_-_ 27
To Make Loans Only Where Fair,Employment
Contractors Are Involved 27
To Intensify Evangelistic Work Among Jews — 27
To Send Resource People into Mission Fields — 27
To Establish Missionary Medical Emergency
Reserve Fund 27

2. Theology and Church Relations

Reports
Report of Commission on Theology and Church
Relations 29
Report of Commission on Worship 45
Report of Commission on Organizations _._.... 47
Report of LCMS Representatives to LCUSA _ 47
Report of Board of Directors Re Participation
in LCUSA (Milwaukee Res. 3-18) —_ 47
Report of LCMS Representatives to the ALC-
LCMS Commission on Fellowship 48
Administration
To Restructure CTCR 50
To Ask Council of Presidents to Review Bylaws
on Doctrinal Review 50
To Continue Editorial Board of CPH _____.._ 50
Confessions, Resolutions, Discipline

To Pray for Doctrinal Unity and Profession —_ 51
To Affirm Faithfulness to God’s Word and to
Our Gospel Mission 51
To Vote on Two Statements 82
To Subscribe to Brief Statement 52
To Require Written Assurance of Faith ______ 52
To Reaffirm Binding Nature of Doctrinal Reso-
lutions 52
To Rescind Milwaukee Resolution 5-24 — 53
To Impose Restraints on Formulation of Doc-
trinal Resolutions 53
To Provide Continuity to Formulation of Doc-
trinal Resolutions - - 53
To Adopt Concept of “Norma Pro Tempore”
and a System for Monitoring Time Span of
Doctrinal Resolutions 53
To Change Procedures for Handling Doctrinal
Matters 54
To Establish a Commission on Dissent 54
To Canvass Synod Membership —— 55
To Take Heed to Ourselves —__ ~-— 55
To Resolve Theological Differences 55
To Permit Varying Opinions CS

(Also 2-27B)
To Deal with Varying Theological Positions — 56
To Urge the Synod and Its Members to Deal
with Various Matters 56
To Commend, Provide for Further Action, and
Pray for Unity and Peace 57

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To Define More Adequately Doctrinal Super-
vision 57
To Establish Informal Procedures for Individ-
uals Charging Doctrinal Aberrations __-____._ 58
To Encourage Church Discipline Throughout
Missouri Synod 58
To Insist on Doctrinal Discipline ___________ 58
To Encourage Doctrinal Supervisors to Use
Also “A Statement” in Their Tasks —___—58
To Endorse “A Statement” ——— +59
To Repudiate Council of Presidents 59
(Also 2-37B)
To Declare Boards of Control Accountable to
Svnodical President in Doctrinal Matters 59
(Also 2-38B)
To Extend Supervision to Valparaiso Univer-
sity Theological Faculty 59
Status of Women
To Rescind Woman Suffrage Resolution — 60
To Rescind Woman Suffrage _.—_____ 60
To Return to Former Position on Woman
Suffrage 61
To Extend Larger Role to ‘Women in Parish
Life - 61
(Also 2 2-43B, C, D, E, F)
Report on Women’s Services in Church .. — — 61
To Prepare Studies on Ministries of Women — 62
To Study Terms of Service of Men and Women 63
To Authorize Ordination of Women to Pastoral
Office 63
To Admit Women to All Offices 63
To Deal with Ordination of Women at Various
Levels a 63
(Also 2-49B, C, D. E, F)
To Rule on Ordination of Women 63
(Also 2-50B, C)
To Declure Ordination of Women Not Divisive
of Fellowship | _..-. en  «):
To Continue to Oppose Women’s Ordination — 64
To Reject Ordination of Women 64
(Also 2-53B, C)
To Insist on Scriptural Teaching Regarding
Ordination of Women _....- - 64
(Also 2-54B. C)
To Exercise Discipline Regarding Ordination
of Women 65
To Modify Position Re ‘Women Holding Pas-
toral Office _ 65
To Give Further Study to Woman Ordination 65
To Study Ordination of Women _..- —s*S
Abortion and Sexuality
To Speak Up Publicly Against Abortion 65
(Also 2-59B, C)
To Urge That Synod Speak for the Unborn _— 66
(Also 2-60B, C, D. E. F, G)
To Warn and Counsel Those Tempted to Will-
ful Abortion —- wee 66
(Also 2-61B, C, D, E, FP, G).
To Denounce Abortion and Euthanasia — 66
To Affirm Our Synodical Stance on Abortion — 67
(Also 2-63B)
To Remove Clergymen Backing Abortion 67
To Study Abortion — .. — 67
To Study and Discuss Abortion . 67
To Request ALC and LCA to Alter Position — 67
To Help Prevent Abortions -.. -_— —. 6&7
To Study Issues of Human Sexuality 68
{Also 2-69B)
Affirmations
To Revise Mission Affirmations —_..—_-_.— 68
To Produce Set of Mission Affirmations in Har-
mony with Scripture and Lutheran Confessions 68
To Ask CTCR to Rewrite Mission Affirmations 68
To Reafirm Affirmations Rather Than “A
Statement,” Article III a _ - 69