LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1967, Page 77

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT 77

1. Have we appreciated as we should what great
things God has done for us and for all men in offering
us forgiveness and freedom and new life in Jesus Christ?

2. As individuals, have we set our mind above every-
thing else on God’s kingdom, on being His children and
living under Him in His kingdom and being witnesses
of His goodness to an increasing number of others in
word and deed?

3. Has every one of our congregations put the proc-
lamation, demonstration, and propagation of the saving
Gospel above everything else, or has concern about the
prestige, the organization, and the physical property of
the congregation become our ruling passion?

4, Is every one of our congregations, gathered around
and equipped by the Word and the sacraments, a veri-
table community of healing by the power and grace of
the Lord our Healer and sent out, healthy and strong,
to a broken and ailing world?

COMMUNICANT GAINS 1951—1966 (U. 5. ONLY) VE

5. As a church body, have we here and there devoted
more time to suspecting and finding fault with one
another than to uniting in being Christ’s witnesses sent
into the world? Have we been willing to lose our life
for Christ’s sake and the sake of the Gospel?

But what of the future? God has given us a great
work to do. To do it in a way that pleases Him and His
good and gracious will, we must embody the great
heritage of our Synod in such a way as to use it on
behalf of God’s tomorrow rather than as an insulation
or isolation against the future and the changes it will
surely bring. This is what your boards and commissions,
officers and workers all try to do faithfully in your
service.

We have a great work to do. We have a good work
to do on an even larger scale. May the mighty God
for Jesus’ sake enable us all to do it with all our might.

W. F. Wowsrecut, Executive Director

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