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CHURCH RELATIONS 113

4. A Religion Against Itself. p. 103.

5. Jesus and the Power of Satan, pp. 99, 178.

6. His Only Son Our Lord, pp. 44, 40, 41. The Lutheran
Standard, Feb. 8, 1966.

7. Dialog, Summer 1968, pp. 181—82: and

WuHereas, Joint worship with those who deny basic
truths of God’s Word is contrary to Holy Scripture:

1. 2 John 10-11.

2. The Concordia Cyclopedia, pp. 774—75.

3. LCMS Constitution, Art. VI.

4, ALC Minneapolis Theses, Art. III, No. 2: and

Wuereas, The ALC now permits its pastors, officials,
and congregations to participate and officiate at joint
worship services which are contrary to Holy Scripture:

1. The Lutheran Standard, Jan. 12, 1965.

2. The Lutheran Standard. Feb. 9, 1965.

3. America, Dec. 24—31, 1966.

4. Associated Press, Dec. 15, 1968.

5. The Citizen, Denville, N.J., April 11. 1968.

6. Printed order of worship for a joint ecumenical wor-
ship service in Dubuque, Iowa, Oct. 31. 1965.

7. The Seattle Times, Jan. 15, 1966: and

Wuereas, The ALC is a member of the unscriptural

World Council of Churches:

1. “Fellowship Concerns,” by Dr. Robert Preus.

2. Ecumenism and the Bible, by Dr. David Hedegard,
p. 131.

3. “The Ecumenical Movement and Its Theological Im-
plications,” by V. S. Grieger; and
Wuereas, The American Lutheran Church is a mem-

ber of the unscriptural Lutheran World Federation:

1. “Fellowship Concerns,” by Robert Preus.

2. The Day of His Coming, by Gerhard Gloege.

3. The Lutheran World, Vol. XIII, No. 2.

4. The LWF's Encyclcpedia of the Lutheran Church.

5. “Conscience Must Protest,” by Arthur Voobus.

6. Lutheran World, Vol. XV, No.4: and

Wuereas, The 1968 general convention of the ALC
“Resolved, That The American Lutheran Church de-
clare altar and pulpit fellowship with the Lutheran
Church in America” (this decision must be approved
by the districts of the ALC): and

Wuereas, The LCA is theologically extremely lib-
eral:
1. 1966 LCA Manifesto. A Study Book on the Manifesto.
The Lutheran, July 1, 1964.

2. Genesis, Book of Beginnings, part of the new LCA
curriculum. The Lutheran Witness, Ontario District
Edition, August 1966.

3. The Mighty Acts of God, by Robert Marshall. Review
by Dr. William Beck, Christian News, July 1, 1966.

4. The Lutheran Quarterly, May 1954. What's Left to
Believe, by Dr. J. Schoneberg Setzer.

. The Lutheran, June 16, 1965.
. Lutheran Women, July—August 1966; and

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Wuereas, The LCA is a member of the unscriptural
National Council of Churches. and it has been reported
that the ALC’s Church Council is recommending that
The ALC join the NCC in 1970:

1. Newsweek, June 26, 1967.

2. The Lutheran Witness, March 1, 1932.

3. The Unitarian Register, November 1959. The Reli-
gious Bodies of America, by F. E. Mayer: and

Wuereas, The ALC still has not condemned the anti-
Scriptural notion that man can cooperate to some ex-
tent in his own conversion:

“Fellowship Concerns” by Robert Preus: and

Wuereas, The ALC permits those within her fel-
lowship to remain members of Christ-denying orga-
nizations that teach that Jesus is not God and that a
man must work his own way to heaven:

1. “ALC Fellowship — Pro and Con,” by Walter Otten.
2. LCMS Handbook, Bylaws, Art. XIV, Section 14.07 b:
and

Wuereas, According to a survey printed in Religion
and Society in Tension (Rand McNally, 1965), The ALC
laity is theologically different from the LCMS laity; and

Wuereas, Loyal Lutherans in The ALC have been
protesting against the theological modernism tolerated
within their church: and

Wuereas, Loyal informed Lutheran professors are
urging the LCMS not to declare altar and pulpit fellow-
ship with The ALC until various doctrinal issues are
resolved; and

Wuereas, Each congregation within the LCMS should
have an opportunity to vote on whether or not the
LCMS should declare fellowship with The ALC: there-
fore be it

Resolved. That we petition the 1969 Denver conven-
tion of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod to sub-
mit the matter of altar and pulpit fellowship with The
American Lutheran Church to a congregational refer-
endum: and be it further

Resolved. That if the 1969 convention of the LCMS,
in Denver this July, declares altar and pulpit fellowship
with the ALC or should join the Lutheran World Fed-
eration. the World Council of Churches, or the National
Council of Churches, then in obedience to Holy Scrip-
ture we will withdraw from The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod.

SpecraL Note: We recognize that there are also theo-
logical liberals within the LCMS. We have registered
our protest to past conventions of the LCMS about this
matter. We also recognize that there are loyal Lu-
therans within The ALC. It is our prayer that all true