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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1975, Page 339

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HIGHER EDUCATION 339

WHEREAS, These professors who walked out have thereby
relinquished their call as professors of the St. Louis seminary,
which also indicates that they did not agree with the action taken
by the seminary Board of Control regarding the suspension of
Dr. John Tietjen: and

WHEREAS. Dr. Tietjen was relieved of his duties as president
of the St. Louis seminary in October 1974 and has not appealed
this decision of the Board of Control, thereby showing that the
Board of Control was following the Handbook of the Synod and
was justified in suspending Dr. Tietjen in January 1974. which
caused the majority of professors to walk out: therefore be it

Resolved. That the Anaheim convention of 1975 decline to
recognize this seminex seminary with its professors or its stu-
dents graduating from that seminary as pastors of the Synod:
and be it further

Resolved. That if professors admit their errors and wish to
come back into the fold of the LCMS, we as a Synod forgive
them for walking off duty from our St. Louis seminary, so that
we may then again walk together as a Synod.

Zion Lutheran Church
Lincoln, Ill.

Marlin W. Roos, President
Robert E. Klemm, Secretary

6-68

To Deal with Seminex Issue

WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod has been
formed for the purpose of the preservation and extension of
the kingdom of God through the preaching and teaching of the
pure doctrines of the Word of God: and

WHEREAS. The Synod operates two seminaries for the pur-
pose of training young men for the ministry in order to provide
for the pure preaching and teaching of the Word of God among
us; and ‘

WHEREAS, The members of the faculty of Seminex have re-
moved themselves from the jurisdiction of the Board of Control
of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, thus leaving the Synod with-
out an answer as to Seminex’s position regarding the false doc-
trines rejected by the Synod in New Orleans resolution 3-09:
therefore be it

Resolved. That we urge the Synod assembled in convention
at Anaheim —

1. to issue a brotherly request to Seminex to cease its
operation;

2. to declare its firm determination to admit as members of
the Synod only those candidates who are certified by regular
channels: and

3. to instruct the Synod’s President to begin disciplinary
action with all member congregations who have called pastors
who are graduates of Seminex, as well as those District Presi-
dents who have ordained them.

Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Mahnomen, Minn.

Vern Flatau, Chairman

Paul G. Specht, Secretary

6-69A

To Deal with Members
of Synod Supporting Seminex
WHEREAS, Seminex continues to divert students from the

ministerial training program of the LCMS: and

WHEREAS, Members of the Synod continue to support
Seminex by supplying instructional resources: and

WHEREAS, Students are deceived by promises that Seminex
graduates will in some way be placed in congregations of the
LCMS:; therefore be it

Resolved. That the Synod in convention assembled call upon

those members of the Synod who are teaching or supplying
administrative and supportive services to Seminex to repent:
and be it further

Resolved. That the District Presidents of those individuals
who are teaching or supplying administrative and supportive
services to Seminex be asked to admonish these individuals
and urge them to repent: and be it finally

Resolved. That those members of the Synod who persist in
such offensive conduct, in spite of repeated admonition, beyond
Oct. 1. 1975, be expelled from the Synod.

Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
North Platte, Nebr.

L. V. Schneider, President

Craig Wolske, Secretary

Identical or similar:
6-69B and 6-69C

Calvary, Seattle, Wash.
St. Paul’s, Harvard, IIl.

John Falk
David Behling

6-70
To Utilize Retired Pastors

WHEREAS, The situation produced by Seminex is associated
with a temporary shortage of ministerial graduates: and

WHEREAS, It is not wise to sacrifice the ministerial standards
of the Synod in order to accommodate men manifestly unwilling
to support either the Synod’s Constitution and Bylaws or its
doctrinal stance: therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod invite its retired pastors to offer
their assistance where health permits: and be it further

Resolved, That the Synod instruct its Board of Pensions to see
to it that such retired pastors as return to active duty are in
no way penalized with respect to pension benefits.

Hope Lutheran Church
Chicago, Ill.
Willard Christoffer, Secretary

6-71

To Restore Communion Privileges and
Library Use on De Mun Campus

WHEREAS, The ban on Communion participation and library
use for Seminex students and faculty on the De Mun campus
was a further unnecessary shame and disgrace to our Synod;
and

WHEREAS. The Synod (not the Board of Control) owns the
facilities at ‘801; therefore be it

Resolved. That all members in good standing of any of the
Synod’s churches be welcomed for Communion participation
and library use on the campus of Concordia Seminary, 801
De Mun Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

Trinity Lutheran Church
Long Island City, N. Y.
Ralph E. Savadge, President
Patricia Herrmann, Secretary

6-72A

To Grant Use of Library to Seminex

WHEREAS. Students and faculty members at Concordia
Seminary-in-Exile maintain membership in member congrega-
tions of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod: and

WHEREAS. These congregations support the library at
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, through their contributions to
the Synod; and

WHEREAS, In a broad way the library belongs to the congre-
gations of the Synod: and

WHEREAS. Students at Concordia Seminary-in-Exile are