To Require Use of Synod-Approved Agendas and Hymnbooks at Concordia University System Chapels, Lutheran Summer Camps, and Youth Gathering

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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 
Ov.