Version History
Current published version
Today's Business, Issue 3. pp. 337-338. Revised published proposal.
Official Resolution Source Text
Resolution: 7-07
Canonical number: 7-07
Committee: University Education
Source: Today's Business, Issue 1
Printed pages: p. 131
PDF pages: 131
Version: original, superseded
Source reference: Issue 1, p. 131
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- To Clarify Lutheran Identity in Connection with the Concordia Universities
- RESOLUTION 7-07
- Overtures 7-04–07 (CW, 422–24)
- WHEREAS, The 2023 Synod convention (Res. 7-04B, “To Revise Bylaws to Revisit and Renew Relationship of
- Colleges and Universities with the Synod,” Proceedings, 170–72) revised Bylaw subsection 3.6.6 to direct the Concordia
- University System (CUS) Board of Directors (BOD) to develop and adopt Lutheran Identity Mission Outcome Standards
- (LIMOS), which were adopted in February 2024 (in.lcms.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LIMOS-2024.pdf); and
- WHEREAS, The LIMOS are used during official CUS visitations of the Concordia universities, the goal being to
- evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each university relative to the Lutheran identity standards adopted by the Synod
- (2016 Res. 7-01A, “To Adopt Lutheran Identity Statement for CUS Institutions as Prepared by CUS Presidents,” Proc.,
- 171–72); and
- WHEREAS, The first round of evaluations of the Concordia universities by the CUS has recently been completed; and
- WHEREAS, Following this initial round of evaluations, some questions have been raised as to the breadth and depth of
- the term Lutheran identity, and especially as to how it should be understood in connection with, and applied to, our
- Concordia universities; and
- WHEREAS, The Lord is a God of clarity and order, and it is good, right, and salutary for His Church to seek clarity and
- order in all things; therefore be it
- Resolved, That the CUS BOD, in consultation with the Commission on Theology and Church Relations, shall define
- and clarify what is meant by Lutheran identity and how it should be understood in connection with our Concordia
- universities, and shall issue a report to the 2029 Synod convention, at the same time issuing the same report to the boards
- of regents of our Concordia universities; and be it further
- Resolved, That the CUS BOD shall continue to utilize, and develop further as necessary, the LIMOS, while
- strengthening and clarifying them with references to the scriptural and confessional bases for the standards, and making
- the updated, strengthened, and clarified LIMOS available to the Synod on the CUS website.
