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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1975, Page 247

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CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS 247

5-106A

To Provide for Seminex Students and
Professors to Serve in LCMS

WHEREAS, Some graduates and professors of Seminex desire
to serve within The Lutheran Church -— Missouri Synod: and

WHEREAS, Some graduates and professors of Concordia
Seminary-in-Exile may not actually accept the anti-Scriptural
position of Seminex and have simply been misled by liberal
professors: therefore be it

Resolved. That The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod allow
all graduates and professors of Seminex to serve congregations
and schools in the LCMS provided these Seminex students
and professors:

1. Accept the Scriptural position of The Lutheran Church —
Missouri Synod including A Statement of Scriptural and Confes-
sional Principles:

2. Acknowledge and repudiate the false doctrine in Semi-
nex’s Faithful to Our Calling — Faithful to Our Lord. which was
recognized as being contrary to Scripture by the LCMS 1973
convention:

3. Admit that it is contrary to Scripture and not to be tolerated
within the LCMS to hold that:

a. Man evolved from an apelike creature.
b. Man does not have an immortal soul.

c. The first five books of the Bible came from various sources
designated as J, E, D, and P.

d. The eighth-century B.C. prophet Isaiah did not write
chapters 40 —66 of the Book of Isaiah.

e. Jonah was not actually swallowed by a large fish.

f. There are no direct rectilinear prophecies in the Old Testa-
ment.

g. Christ did not pay the ransom to God the Father for the
salvation of all men.

h. Men can get to heaven without a saving knowledge of
Jesus Christ.

i. There are errors in the Bible.
Trinity Lutheran Church
New Haven, Mo.
Orville Meyer, Secretary

Identical or similar:

3-106B

Messiah, Detroit, Mich. C. Hoffmeyer

5-107

To Reevaluate Calling Procedures

WHEREAS, The present system of placing candidates and
calling pastors and other church workers has been in effect for
over 100 years: and

WHEREAS, It is always advisable to reevaluate existing orga-
nizational procedures: therefore be it

Resolved. That the President of the Synod in consultation
with the Vice-Presidents of the Synod and the District Presi-
dents appoint a commission to study, reevaluate, suggest, or
make necessary changes in our calling and placing procedures:
and be it further

Resolved, That consideration be given to allowing the grad-
uating church workers to be placed directly through their
respective authorized schools: that avenues be explored to allow
church workers a more active personal voice in securing a call:
and that congregations be given an opportunity for interviewing
a church worker before he is called: and be it finally

Resolved. That we thank God for the many dedicated work-
ers He has placed in our midst.
Pastoral Conference
Wyoming District
Paul R. Bundschuh, Secretary

3-108A

To Certify Graduates of Saskatoon
Seminary

WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod has
provided a staff member to teach at the Lutheran Theological
Seminary in Saskatoon and has through the Board for Higher
Education approved the idea of an additional staff member: and

WHEREAS. This support has been given with the purpose
that Missouri Synod students may qualify for service in their own
church body: and

WHEREAS, There is as yet no provision for regular certifica-
tion of the Missouri Synod students graduating from the Saska-
toon seminary: therefore be it

Resolved. That the Council of Presidents, in consultation with
the Missouri Synod Commission on Constitutional Matters and
the other Lutheran church bodies involved (Evangelical Lu-
theran Church of Canada, Lutheran Church in America—
Canada Section), draw up procedures by which graduates of
the Saskatoon seminary can be certified for calls within The
Lutheran Church-— Missouri Synod: and be it further

Resolved. That special provisions be made to certify the 1974
and 1975 graduates.
Christ The King Lutheran Church
Edmonton, Alta.
R. Anderson, Secretary

Identical or similar:

5-108B
Faith, Saskatoon, Sask. Wm. Kienzler
3-109

To Support District Presidents

WHEREAS. There is question within the church about the
actions of certain District Presidents concerning the ordaining
and installing of graduates of Concordia Seminary-in-Exile,
we desire to speak strongly in support of those actions: and

WHEREAS. These men were duly called by the congregations
they are serving, in accordance with the doctrine of the call: and

WHEREAS, This action by the congregations is totally in accor-
dance with Article VII of the Constitution of the LCMS, and this
action is thus legally sound: and

WHEREAS, The confessional writings of the LCMS state: “It
is clear that the Church retains the right to elect and ordain
ministers . .. if the bishops either are heretics, or will not ordain
suitable persons, the churches are in duty bound before God,
according to divine law, to ordain for themselves pastors and
ministers’ Power and Primacy of the Pope, 72), and thus we
understand the theological basis of said congregations and
District Presidents to be sound: and

WHEREAS. These District Presidents were instructed by their
respective Districts in convention to ordain and install graduates
of Concordia Seminary-in-Exile who had received calls: there-
fore be it

Resolved. That we recognize the present situation as a diffi-
cult and perplexing time for the LCMS and that we accept the
actions of District Presidents who have ordained and installed
graduates of Concordia Seminary-in-Exile as a fulfillment of
their office and an act of love for the congregations concerned
and the church at large.

St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran Church
Cohocton, N.Y.

William Jackman, President
David VanGesen, Secretary

5-110
To Protect and Defend District

Presidents from Censure or Dismissal

WHEREAS. It has been proposed by the President of the
Synod that District Presidents who ordained or installed grad-
uates of Seminex repent of this act or resign their office: and