Official Workbook overture source text
Overture: 4-26
Workbook page: 316-317
Source pages: 316, 317
Source status: source checked / public
Submitter: North Dakota District
Ov. 4-26
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
