# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S277
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Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters _ atT

VI. INTERSYNODICAL AND
DOCTRINAL MATTERS

Report of the Committee on Lutheran Church Union
(Memorial 601)

~The Committee on Lutheran Church Union, reappointed by the

‘President of Synod after the 1938 convention, begs leave to submit

e following report.

Negotiations with the American Lutheran Church
1. During the past three years we held three meetings with
the Fellowship Commission of the Honorable American Lutheran
Church. It had been our intention, following the instruction given
us by Synod in 1938, to engage in a thorough discussion of the
five points mentioned in the Declaration of the American Lu-
theran Church commissioners concerning which there still exists
- a divergence between some members of the American Lutheran
Church and our Synod (visible side of the Church, Antichrist,
beginning of the millennium, resurrection of the martyrs, con-
version of the Jews).

2. The discussion, however, was diverted into a different
- channel by certain resolutions of the American Lutheran Church
adopted at its convention in Sandusky in October, 1938. There
were three items in these resolutions which appeared to us to
require a discussion more urgently than the other points men-
tioned. These items were:

a) The statement that it is neither possible nor necessary
to agree in all non-fundamental doctrines;

b) The declaration that the American Lutheran Church will
not give up its membership in the American Lutheran Conference;

c) The phrase “in the light of” occurring in the sentence
“We believe that the Brief Statement viewed in the light of our
Declaration is not in contradiction to the Minneapolis Theses.”

3. In addition, many brethren expressed doubt as to the cor-
rectness of the sentence in the Declaration that God “purposes to
justify those who have come to fait! a

4. While the five points enumerated above were touched on in
our discussions, the major topics were the above-mentioned items
from the Sandusky Resolutions and the one sentence quoted from
the Declaration.

5. In connection with our discussion of the relation of the
American Lutheran Church to the Brief Statement the commis-
sioners of the American Lutheran Church set forth that their

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