# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S238
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238 Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters

action taken by each body with reference to the Brief Statement,

the Declaration of the representatives of the American Lutheran

Church, and the report of this CommittBe as adopted by Synod.”

“c, As far as the Missouri Synod is concerned, this whole matter
must be submitted for approval to the other Synods constituting
the Synodical Conference.” ,

The facts at present are these:

The American Lutheran Church has received our resolutions,
has discussed them, but has not accepted them — the Brief State-
ment, the Declaration, and the report of Committee 16 as adopted
by Synod —as a basis for future church fellowship.

The Wisconsin Synod, a member of the Synodical Conference,
has studied our resolutions and has not approved them but rather
condemned them, saying: “The unity of the Synodical Conference

seems endangered by the action of Missouri.”

‘ The Norwegian Synod, also a member of the Synodical Con-
ference, has likewise disapproved of them and is now asking Synod

‘to revoke these resolutions. :

According to our own stipulations in these resolutions and the
action of the bodies named above, the 1938 resolutions on Lutheran
Church Union are not and cannot any longer be a basis for future
church fellowship. ,

Further, these resolutions have been subjected to various and
conflicting interpretations, causing doubt, uncertainty, and_divi-

sions in our own Synod.

, They are causing divisions in the Synodical Conference and

are endangering the continued existence of the Synodical Con-

ference. .

Our Synod has recognized the difficulties adhering to the 1938
resolutions, and in its 1941 convention it restated the whole matter,
laying a better foundation. This makes the 1938 resolutions un-

.mecessary and a hindrance to a God-pleasing endeavor for
church unity.

Now therefore we earnestly ask that the resolutions of 1938 on _
Lutheran Union be declared to be no longer a. basis for future

church fellowship.
P FarMonr Conrzrence, Minnesota District

E. Kosere, Secretary

Questions on Status of Lutheran Union
(Memorial 608)

Our most recent information on the status of negotiations”
between the American Lutheran Church and your honorable body
is derived from the report of the Missouri Committee for Doctrinal
Unity published in the Lutheran Witness of May 11, 1943.