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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1973, Page 81

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THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS 81

Similar:
2-115B

St. Paul Lutheran Church, Rochelle, Ill, Theodore Weiss,
Pastor; Mark Junge, Secretary.

2-115C

St. Paul’s Ev. Lutheran Church, Mellen, Wis., Ken Lind-
quist; Donald Kulbachi, Secretary.

2-115D

Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church, Mellen, Wis., Donald
Koosmann, President; Robert Kretzschmar, Secretary.

2-116A

To Withdraw from Lutheran Council
in the U.S.A.

Wuereas, The Lutheran Council in the U.S.A. has lob-
bied for various political causes in Washington, D.C.; and

Wuereas, A LCUSA division has published and widely
distributed Who Can This Be? a study document which
attacks the vicarious satisfaction and deity of Christ: and

Wuereas, No top official of LCUSA has publicly declared
that Who Can This Be? contains false doctrine which must
be retracted; and

Wuereas, LCUSA has left the door open for the ordina-
tion of women to the holy ministry; and

WuereEas, Conferences sponsored by LCUSA have at-
tacked the inspiration and inerrancy of Holy Scripture; and

Wuereas LCUSA costs the LCMS more than one-half
million dollars each year; therefore be it

Resolved. That we respectfully ask the LCMS to with-
draw from LCUSA.
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
New Haven, Mo.
Larry Scheer, Secretary
Identical or Similar:

2-116B
Trinity Lutheran Church, Hobart, Ind., Clifford Fackler,
President; Eugene Weller, Secretary.

2-116C

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church. Delhi, Ontario, Carl Priester,
President; John S. Obeda, Pastor.

2-116D

Trinity Lutheran Church, Ironwood, Mich., Leonard
Korpi, President; R. W. Heikkinen, Pastor.

2-117
To Withdraw Immediately from LCUSA

Wuereas, Christ gave us the Great Commission in Matt.
28:19. “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost”; and

Wuereas, In the publication of the Lutheran Council in
the U.S.A. entitled Who Can This Be? the clear Biblical
picture of Jesus is completely distorted (p.17) with such
heretical statements about Jesus as:

So the gospels clearly give us a picture of one who, like the

rest of us, Was groping through each new situation to find some

clear indication of what the Father's will might be. ... Per-
haps it is a mistake to say that Jesus possessed within himself
any particular capacity to respond to the Father that is not
common to us... . Jesus at that moment had no divine preview
of the necessity of the cross. He shrank from death as we
shrink from death in all its lonely terror. Likely he was even
unaware of the resurrection that lay beyond the criminal’s death.

The above statements obviously destroy the effectiveness of
the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ; and

Whereas, LCUSA continues to work primarily in the so-
cial, economic, and political fields, and continuously offends
vast numbers of LCMS members by implying that LCUSA

speaks for them — although, all the while, LCUSA denies
that it is doing this; and

WuereaS. LCUSA has made a study on the “Ordination
of Women” that directly and specifically contradicts clear
Biblical passages and is in direct conflict with the Commis-
sion on Theology and Church Relations of the LCMS, who
also made an exhaustive study of the question, completely
disagreeing with the conclusions found by LCUSA,; and

Wuereas, We believe the hundreds of thousands of dollars
given to LCUSA each year could be spent in a much more
God-pleasing way; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
withdraw immediately from the Lutheran Council in the

U.S.A. Mount Hope LUTHERAN CHURCH

Casper, Wyo.

F. D. Stewart, President
Richard Means, Secretary
Rev. J. B. Brown, Pastor

2-118A
To Withdraw from Membership in LCUSA

Wuereas, Participation of the LCMS in the Lutheran
Council in the U.S.A. has long been the subject of question
and criticism (Proceedings. LCMS Milwaukee Convention,
1971, Res. 3-18. p. 184): and

Wuereas, The Milwaukee convention of the LCMS ques-
tioned the effectiveness of LCUSA in terms of budgeting,
planning, programming, and doctrinal differences (Proceed-
ings. LCMS Milwaukee Convention, 1971, Res. 3-14, 16, 18,
pp. 133—134): and

Wuereas, LCUSA has taken upon itself to enter into the
doctrinal controversy in the LCMS by publicizing a strong
attack against President J. A. O. Preus by Dean William
Lazareth of Gettysburg (Pa.) Seminary, LCA (the June 23,
1972, News Bureau of LCUSA quoted by Dr. Lazareth as
“Terming Dr. Preus’ Statement a biblicistic and confession-
alistic perversion of the truth of the Gospel entrusted to
evangelical Lutherans. ...” and again by quoting Dr. Laz-
areth as agreeing with the faculty of the Missouri Synod
seminary that the Dr. Preus’s Statement was “unnecessary,
inadequate theologically, and alien to the spirit of Lutheran
confessional theology”): and

Wuereas, Such publication of bias attacks on the Presi-
dent of the Synod by an organization which should remain
neutral in such internal synodical problems of any of the
member bodies is both shocking and unethical, and abso-
lutely uncalled for: therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
declare that membership in the Lutheran Council in the
U.S.A. represents a gross misuse and poor investment of
funds contributed by the congregations of the Synod; and
be it further

Resolved. That the LCMS terminate its membership in
LCUSA effective as of Jan. 1, 1974.

St. Joun’s Ev, LUTHERAN CHURCH
Millvale, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Bernard Peel, Secretary
Horace Garton, Pastor

Identical or Similar:

2-118B
Zion Lutheran Church. Auburn, Iowa, Lester Sievers,
Chairman pro tem; Harvey Lesle. Secretary.

2-118C
Bethel Lutheran Church. Glenshaw. Pa., Robert Hertzog,
Executive Director; Robert V. Neeb, Pastor.

2-119
To Withdraw from LCUSA

Whereas. The Lutheran Council in the U.S.A. was to be
primarily an agency through which various Lutheran bodies
could work cooperatively in those areas which did not in-