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Today's Business, Issue 1. p. 111. Original floor committee resolution.
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Official Resolution Source Text
Resolution: 6-02
Canonical number: 6-02
Committee: Pastoral Ministry and Seminaries
Source: Today's Business, Issue 1
Printed pages: p. 111
PDF pages: 111
Version: original, current-published-proposal
Source reference: Issue 1, p. 111
Line numbers follow Today's Business, Issue 1, with numbering reset on each printed page, so delegates can compare this page with the official PDF.
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- To Encourage Seminary Specialized Witness and Outreach Training
- RESOLUTION 6-02
- Reports R13.1–2 (CW, 64–67); Overture 6-58 (CW, 399)
- WHEREAS, God “desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4), and the Lord
- Jesus is the “light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to [His] people Israel” (Luke 2:32); and
- WHEREAS, The seminaries of the Synod have faithfully served God’s Church, providing pastors who proclaim God’s
- Word and administer the Sacraments since 1839; and
- WHEREAS, The seminaries have throughout their history provided training for men who served the church in
- specialized areas of outreach ministry such as church planting, foreign and domestic missions, etc.; and
- WHEREAS, The seminaries are actively enhancing formation to embrace mission, witness, and outreach in response to
- the 2023 Res. 1-01A, “To Stimulate Training for Witness” (Proc., 115), which was adopted by unanimous voice vote;
- therefore be it
- Resolved, That we offer our thanks for the additional coursework and workshops in evangelism and outreach; and be
- it further
- Resolved, That the Synod in convention request that the seminaries, in consultation with the Council of Presidents,
- identify specialized areas of seminary training that are needed today in the life of the church and its mission to the world,
- including the preparation of men for church planting.
