# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S302
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

802 Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters

6. That to this end a committee, henceforth to be known as “The
Committee on Doctrinal Unity in the Lutheran Church of America,”
be again appointed, in accordance with the resolutions of the Cleve-
land Convention of 1935. :

a. The immediate objective be not organic union but doctrinal
unity; oo

mittee be instructed to make every possible effort that such one
document be prepared;

words are to convey;
d. In calling for one document, we do not mean to dispense with

circumstances, Some statements may need to be more sharply de-
fined or amplified;

e. It be understood that the term “non-fundamental doctrines”
which has been used should not be made to convey the idea that
anything clearly revealed in Scripture, although not absolutely
necessary for salvation, may be denied;

study by the committee and pastoral conferences on the basis of
Scripture and our Confessions, and that also in reference to these

‘of church practice;

h. The pastoral conferences receive information from our com-
mittee and report the results of their joint meetings to the secretary
of Synod’s committee; .