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Theology and Church Relations

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Assigned overtures

5-01

To Recognize Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with Evangelical Lutheran Christian Church of Bolivia

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5-02

To Support and Encourage Recognition of Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with Lutheran Mission—Australia

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5-03

To Address Concerns with Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church

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5-04

To Admonish and Review Fellowship with Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church

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5-05

To Admonish and Converse with Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church

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5-06

To Address Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya Membership in Lutheran World Federation

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5-07

To Declare State of “Fellowship in Protest” with Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia

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5-08

To Recognize That the Synod Is Not in Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche

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5-09

To Reconsider Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with The American Association of Lutheran Churches.

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5-10

To Encourage and Promote Biblical Teaching of Creation

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5-11

To Restore Apostles’ Creed to Historical Form regarding Christ’s “Descent into Hell”

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5-12

To Review Practice of Divine Call in Synod Constitution and Bylaws

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5-13

To Request Comprehensive Review When Call Is Terminated or Self-Terminated

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5-14

To Study How to Amend Practice of Issuing “Divine Calls” to Positions Not in Direct Service of Proclamation of Gospel and Administration of Sacraments

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5-15

To Encourage and Promote Sound Teaching on Eschatology or Last Things

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5-16

To Reaffirm and Encourage Teaching and Practice of Closed Communion

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5-17

To Reaffirm, Enforce, and Restore Faithful Eucharistic Practice and Synodical Discipline concerning Unionism and Open Communion

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5-18

To Request Commission on Theology and Church Relations to Produce Study Document to Further Understanding and Conversations on Pastoral Exceptions to Closed Communion

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5-19

To Reaffirm Sanctity of Human Life in Regard to Practice of In Vitro Fertilization

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5-20

To Oppose Practice of In Vitro Fertilization

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5-22

To Believe, Teach, and Confess Missio Dei

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5-23

To Rescind 1981 Resolution 8-05 and Request Commission on Theology and Church Relations Report on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation

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5-24

To Urge Church of Christ to Stay and Do Her Duty

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5-25

To Publicly Acknowledge Theological and Ecclesial Errors in Church’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

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5-26

To Rejoice in Proclamation of God’s Word by His Called and Ordained Servants

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5-27

To Condemn Use of Women as Lectors

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5-28

To Affirm That God Does Indeed Prohibit Females from Public Reading of Scriptures, for Reading Is Preaching/Heralding the Word

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5-29

To Correct Erroneous Practice of Women Lectors

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5-30

To Reaffirm Doctrine of Men Serving in Office of Holy Ministry

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5-31

To Reconsider Issue of Woman Suffrage in the Church

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5-32

To Reconsider Issue of Woman Suffrage in the Church

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5-33

To Reconsider Issue of Woman Suffrage in the Church

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5-34

To Direct that the Synod and Its Commission on Theology and Church Relations Study and Reexamine Woman Suffrage in Light of Synod’s Historic Practice and Holy Scripture, so as to Address and Resolve Confusion and Disunity

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5-35

To Affirm Role of Women in the Church

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5-36

To Affirm Inspiration and Authority of Mark 16:9–20

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5-37

To Clarify Doctrine of Holy Trinity over against Eternal Functional Subordination of the Son

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5-38

To Declare Center for Missional and Pastoral Leadership to be Heterodox Tract and Mission Society

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5-39

To Declare Center for Missional and Pastoral Leadership to be Heterodox Tract and Mission Society

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5-40

To Address Release and Use of Luther’s Large Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications

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5-41

To Conclude Created Male and Female Task Force and Receive Its Recommendations

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5-42

To Amend Bylaw 3.3.1.1.2 (c) to Designate President’s Director of Church Relations as His Primary Representative for Ecclesiastical Relations with Other Church Bodies

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5-43

To Refer Some Assignments from Commission on Theology and Church Relations to Seminaries

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5-44

To Give Thanks to God for 1700th Anniversary of First Council of Nicaea

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Assigned reports

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