Official Resolution Source Text
Resolution: 6-14
Committee: Pastoral Ministry and Seminaries
Source: Today's Business, Issue 1
Page: pp. 125-126
To Respectfully Decline Overtures
RESOLUTION 6-14 Overtures 6-72, 74, 84, 86–87 (CW, 408–09, 413, 414–15)27
WHEREAS, The floor committee has considered all overtures assigned to it and has concluded, for various reasons, that certain overtures should be declined; therefore be it
Resolved, That the following overtures be respectfully declined for the reasons given:
Overture Subject Reason
Ov. 6-72 To Study the Feasibility of Intentional Seminary Professor Turnover and Parish Sabbatical Doesn’t account for real world variations in age and capacities
Ov. 6-74 To Direct Seminaries to Publish Annual Enrollment Numbers Every Fall This information may be requested from the seminaries
Ov. 6-84 To Establish Commissioned Male Diaconate Inconsistent with seminary formation and synodical practice
Ov. 6-86 To Celebrate and Encourage Lay Service Lack of clarity
Ov. 6-87 To Celebrate and Encourage Lay Service Lack of clarity 7. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION1
