To Affirm Exclusive Use of Synod Seminaries to Prepare Men for Office of Holy Ministry

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To Affirm Exclusive Use of Synod Seminaries  
to Prepare Men for Office of Holy Ministry 
WHEREAS, The Lord Christ has called His Church to faithfulness 
in the things of God (John 8:31), which is sustained in the Church 
by the faithful transmission of the faith to and through the future 
pastors of the Church; and 
WHEREAS, The Lord Christ has called His Church to love toward 
one another (John 13:35), which is exercised by the creation of 
agreed-upon modes of undertaking corporate action; and 
WHEREAS, The Lord Christ has called His Church to a unity of 
faith that is identical with and tantamount to continuing steadfast in 
the apostles’ teaching (Acts 2:42), all the teachings of Holy 
Scripture, and their expression in the Book of Concord, that is, “the 
Gospel in all its articles” (LCMS, A Statement of Scriptural and 
Confessional Principles, [adopted 1973], Article IV ; see also John 
17:20–21; Eph. 4:4–6; FC SD X 31); and 
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