LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1965, Page 270

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270 SUPPLEMENT TO CTCR REPORT

I beseecn you that ye would confirm your love toward
him. For to this end also did I write, that I might know
the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also; for if
I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your
sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ, lest Satan
should get an advantage of us; for we are not ignorant
of his devices.”

6 Acts 2:42. (See no. 2, p. 7.) Acts 5:41,42, “And
they [the apostles] departed from the presence of the
Council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to
suffer for His name. And daily in the temple and in
every house they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus
Christ.” Acts 18:24-26. “And a certain Jew named
Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man and
mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man
was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being
fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the
things of the Lord, knowing only the Baptism of John.
And he began to speak boldly in the synagog; whom
when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him
unto them and expounded unto him the way of God
more perfectly.”

7 Acts 2:46. “And they, continuing daily with one
accord in the temple and breaking bread from house
to house, did eat their meat with gladness and single-
ness of heart.”

8 Acts 9:26, 27. “And when Saul was come to Jeru-
salem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples, but
they were all afraid of him and believed not that he
was a disciple. But Barnabas took him and brought him
to the apostles and declared unto them how he had
seen the Lord in the way and that He had spoken to
him and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in
the name of Jesus.”

9 Acts 4:32,34-37. “And the multitude of them that
believed were of one heart and of one soul. Neither
said any of them that ought of the things which he
possessed was his own, but they had all things common.

. Neither was there any among them that lacked.
For as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold
them and brought the prices of the things that were
sold and laid them down at the apostles’ feet, and
distribution was made unto every man according as
he had need. And Joses, who by the apostles was sur-
named Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, the son
of consolation), a Levite and of the country of Cyprus,
having land, sold it and brought the money and laid
it at the apostles’ feet.” Acts 6:1-6. “And in those days,
when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there
arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews
because their widows were neglected in the daily min-
istration. Then the Twelve called the multitude of the
disciples unto them and said, It is not reason that we
should leave the Word of God and serve tables. Where-
fore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of
honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom,
whom we may appoint over this business. But we will
give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry

of the Word. And the saying pleased the whole multi-
tude; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith
and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and
Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicholas, a
proselyte of Antioch; whom they set before the apostles.
And when they had prayed, they laid their hands on
them.” Acts 11:27-30. “And in these days came proph-
ets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there stood up
one of them, named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit
that there should be great dearth throughout the world,
which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
Then the disciples, every man according to his ability,
determined to send relief unto the brethren which
dwelt in Judea, which also they did and sent it to the
elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.”

10 Gal. 5:6. “For in Jesus Christ neither circumci-
sion availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but faith
which worketh by love.”

B. IN EXTENDING THIS FELLOWSHIP

Believers exercising their fellowship with God and
with one another, and growing strong therein, labor
to extend the fellowship. This they do in accord with
Christ’s great missionary command (Matt. 28:19; Acts
1:8)! and from a powerful inner urge to share the
blessings of Christian fellowship with the world, that
world for which fellowship has been purchased and
intended by God (Acts 4:20; 1 Cor. 19-23; 2 Cor. 4:18
to 15; 2 Cor. 5:14-21; 1 John 1:1-7)?

1 Matt. 28:19. “Go ye, therefore, and teach all na-
tions, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.” Acts 1:8. “But ye
shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come
upon you. And ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in
Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto
the uttermost part of the earth.”

2 Acts 4:20. “For we cannot but speak the things
which we have seen and heard.” 1Cor.9:19-23. “For
though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself
servant unto all that I might gain the more. And unto
the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the
Jews; to them that are under the Law, as under the
Law, that I might gain them that are under the Law.
To them that are without Law (being not without
Law to God, but under the Law to Christ) that I might
gain them that are without Law. To the weak became
I as weak that I might gain the weak. I am made all
things to all men that I might by all means save some.
And this I do for the Gospel’s sake that I might be
partaker thereof with you.” 2 Cor. 4:13-15. “We having
the same spirit of faith, according as it is written,
I believed, and therefore have I spoken. We also believe
and therefore speak, knowing that He which raised
up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and
shall present us with you. For all things are for your
sakes that the abundant grace might through the
thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.”
2 Cor. 5:14-21. “For the love of Christ constraineth us
because we thus judge, that if One died for all, then

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