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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1975, Page 488

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2-06A
2-07A
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2-09A
2-10
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2-13A
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2-15A

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2-17A

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LIST OF REPORTS AND OVERTURES

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1. Evangelism

Report of Board for Evangelism __.
To Encourage Practical Training in Evangelism
in Seminary Education
To Create Chair of Evangelism =
To Encourage Training of Adults in Skills
of Evangelism
To Support Kennedy Plan of Evangelism ____
To Evangelize Non-Christian Cults =
To Revive Office of Evangelist Among Us
To Encourage Ongoing Ambassadors for Christ
To Support Project Philip, a New Way of
Evangelism
To Undergird Evangelistic Task with Sound
Doctrine and Practice
To Retain Balance of Bible Study and Evan-
gelism
To Call for Doctrinal Precision in Personal
Evangelism
To Designate January 1976 as Month of Mission
to Ourselves

2. Missions

Report of Board for Missions
Minority Report
Additional Minority Report
Report of Board for Church Extension __——_
Report of Council for Christian Medical Work __
Recommendations of Mission Study Commis-
sion
To Implement the Theme “Claimed to Pro-
claim”
(Also 2-05B, C, D)
To Support Synod’s Board for Mission
(Also 2-06B, C)
To Commend Board for Missions
(Also 2-07B to F)
To Commend Board for Missions for Faithful
Adherence to God’s Word
To Thank Synod’s Board for Missions
(Also 2-09B)
To Maintain Confessional Integrity on Mission
Fields and Commend and Support Present
Mission Board and Chairman ———___
To Ask Mission Board to Resign
To Admonish Board for Missions
To Request Change in Board for Missions
Policies
(Also 2-13B, C)
To Ask Board for Missions to Deal with ‘Im-
moral” Actions
To Deal Evangelically with Mission Staff ____
(Also 2-15B)
To Expand Mission Work in the World
To Encourage Greater Promotion of Mission
Work
(Also 2-17B, C, D)
To Open New Foreign Mission Fields
(Also 2-18B)
To Begin Mission Work in Portugal, Angola,
and Mozambique
To Develop American Indian Ministry —______
To Carry Out Campus Ministries Under LCUSA
To Permit District Mission Boards to Develop
Own Policies
To Place Campus Ministries Under Supervision
of Synod
(Also 2-23B)
To Set Guidelines for Those in Special Ministries
To Establish Joint Campus Ministries
(Also 2-25B)
To Reaffirm Synod’s Position Regarding Tri-
Lutheran Campus Ministry and to Urge Its Con-
tinuing Support of Such Ministry

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To Require Formal Church Body Fellowship
Before Practicing a Unified Campus Ministry __
To Oppose Unified Campus Ministries
(Also 2-28B)
To Ratify CCM Campus Ministry Opinion
(Also 2-29B, C)
To Overrule CCM Opinion re Campus Ministry
(Also 2-30B)
To Support “Partners in Mission” ==
To Deal with Problems Related to Missions ___
To Request Seminex to Replace LWML Funds
Originally Designated for Concordia Seminary,
St. Louis
To Change Accounting and Reporting of Mis-
sion Funds
To Declare Congregations Which Support ELIM
Ineligible to Receive LCMS Mission Funds —__

3. Theology and Church Relations
(Internal and External)

Report of Commission on Theology and Church
Relations
Report of Commission on Worship

Report of Commission on Organizations
Report of LCMS Representatives to Lutheran
Council in the U.S. A.
Report of LCMS Representatives to ALC-LCMS
Commission on Fellowship
Report of Board of Doctrinal Review

Unity

To Seek God’s Forgiveness in Christ

To Declare the Synod in a State of Penitence _
(Also 3-12B)

To Resort to Humiliation, Prayer, and Fasting —

To Live Under the Gospel of Reconciliation —_
(Also 3-14B to E)

To Work Evangelically for Elimination of Need
for All Factional Groups
(Also 3-15B to H)

To Call for Unity and Recommitment to Christ’s
Mission
To Guard Against Emotionalism ——__
To Urge Synod to Use Divine Word Evangeli-
cally in Dealing with Theological Matters ___
To Encourage Greater Manifestation of Unity
of the Spirit

(Also 3-19B, C)
To Foster Reconciliation
(Also 3-20B, C)
To Strive for Unity
(Also 3-21B)
To Put an End to Doctrinal Confusion
To Recognize Cause of Synodical Crisis and
Take Steps to Remedy It
(Also 3-23B)
To Arrange Strategic Meetings of Reconciliation
(Also 3-24B, C)
To Stop Justifying Attitudes and Actions
To Continue Efforts Toward Reconciliation —_
To Publish Certain Votes of District President
Meetings
(Also 3-27B, C)
To Publish Minutes and Voting Record of
Council of Presidents Meetings —
(Also 3-28B)
To Make Voting Record of Council of Presidents
Known to Synod’s Members ——_____
To Convene Church Council of Two Assemblies
to Bring About Reconciliation ———______
To Urge Reconciliation Through Prayer, Dialog,
and Theological Commission ———_____
(Also 3-31B to K)

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