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

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5-09 
To Reconsider Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with 
The American Association of Lutheran Churches 
WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church– Missouri Synod (LCMS) 
declared altar and pulpit fellowship with The American Association 
of Lutheran Churches (AALC) at its 2007 convention (Res. 3-01); 
and 
WHEREAS, The AALC has in recent years received into its 
membership numerous pastors and congregations that are former 
LCMS members, including pastors removed from the LCMS roster 
for cause; and 
W
HEREAS, The Synod recognizes fellowship with partner 
churches on the basis of agreement in doctrine and practice; and 
WHEREAS, In these matters, the AALC has raised doubts about 
its agreement with the LCMS and its willingness to work together 
as a partner church; therefore be it 
Resolved, That the Synod in convention call  the AALC to 
repentance for its failures in ecclesiastical supervision and church 
relations and urge them to rectify these errors; and be it further 
Resolved, That the Synod dissolve its fellowship with the AALC 
at the 2029 Synod convention unless those errors have been 
rectified in advance of that convention to the satisfaction of the 
President of the Synod as the chief ecumenical officer of the Synod. 
Circuit 13 (Indiana) 
English District