To Require Use of Synod Approved Agendas and Hymnbooks at LCMS Youth Gathering

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To Require Use of Synod Approved Agendas  
and Hymnbooks at LCMS Youth Gathering 
WHEREAS, Synod Constitution VI  4 requires, as a condition of 
membership in the Synod, the “exclusive use of doctrinally pure 
agenda, hymnbooks, and catechisms in church and school”; and 
WHEREAS, The Synod makes available for use by our churches 
and schools hymnbooks whose doctrinal purity has been established 
to the satisfaction of all concerned; and 
WHEREAS, LCMS Youth Gathering, the triennial youth gathering 
organized by the Synod ’s Youth Ministry Office, falls by nature 
under the category of “church” and such groups are therefore 
constitutionally bound to the use of “doctrinally pure … 
hymnbooks”; and 
WHEREAS, The Gathering has in recent years featured assemblies 
at which the worship materials used have been taken from sources 
outside those published under the authority of the Synod and whose 
doctrinal purity is therefore in doubt; therefore be it 
Resolved, That the Synod in convention be memorialized to 
instruct the Gathering henceforth to draw all worship materials 
strictly from agendas, hymnbooks, and catechisms published under 
the authority of the Synod; and be it further 
Resolved, 
That the North Dakota District withhold promotion 
and endorsement from the Gathering until such time (as determined 
by the district’s Board of Directors) that worship materials for the 
Gathering are being drawn strictly from agendas, hymnbooks, and 
catechisms published under the authority of the Synod. 
North Dakota District