Official Workbook overture source text
Overture: 4-27
Workbook page: 317
Source pages: 317
Source status: source checked / public
Submitter: South Dakota District
Ov. 4-27
To Require Use of Synod-Approved Agendas and Hymnbooks at Concordia University System Chapels, Lutheran Summer Camps, and Youth Gathering
WHEREAS, Constitution Article VI 4 requires as a condition of membership in the Synod, “e xclusive 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, Corporate worship assemblies occurring under the official auspices or promotion of Synod entities by nature fall under the category of “church” and are therefore constitutionally bound to the use of “doctrinally pure … hymnbooks”; and
WHEREAS, Chapel services at Concordia University System (CUS) schools, Lutheran summer camps, and the Youth Gathering are included in the category of corporate worship assemblies occurring under the official auspices or promotion of the Synod; and
WHEREAS, CUS chapel services, Lutheran summer camps, and the Youth Gathering do not exclusively use worship materials taken from sources published under the authority and doctrinal approval of the Synod; doctrinal purity of other materials is used is therefore in doubt; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Synod in convention instruct all persons and groups responsible for planning the corporate worship assembles listed above henceforth to draw all worship materials strictly from hymnals and other worship resources published under the authority of the Synod.
Circuit 5 (Mitchell)
South Dakota District
