Committee 5

Theology and Church Relations

Proposed resolutions from Today's Business, Issue 1, pp. 95-110.

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5-01pp. 95-97

To Recognize Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with Evangelical Lutheran Christian Church of Bolivia

Related overtures: 5-01

Open resolution
5-02pp. 97-98encouragement

To Support and Encourage Recognition of Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with Lutheran Mission—Australia

Related overtures: 5-02

Open resolution
5-03pp. 98-99thanksgiving or commendation

To Give Thanks for the Mission Province in Sweden

Related reports: R1.1, R12

Open resolution
5-04pp. 99-101

To Address Concerns with Partner Churches

Related overtures: 5-03, 5-04, 5-05, 5-06, 5-07, 5-08, 5-09

Open resolution
5-05pp. 101-102

To Address Open Communion and Pastoral Exceptions in Extraordinary Circumstances

Related overtures: 5-16, 5-17, 5-18

Open resolution
5-07p. 103

To Refer “Sister Church” Nomenclature Change to Commission on Handbook

Open resolution
5-08p. 104

To Reaffirm the Synod’s Positions on Men and Women in the Church

Related overtures: 5-30, 5-31, 5-32, 5-33, 5-34, 5-35

Open resolution
5-09pp. 105-106

To Address the Public Reading of Scripture

Related overtures: 5-26, 5-27, 5-28, 5-29

Related reports: R62.11

Open resolution
5-10p. 106request or direction

To Request Commission on Theology and Church Relations Report on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation

Related overtures: 5-23

Open resolution
5-11pp. 106-107

To Reaffirm Sanctity of Human Life Regarding Practice of In Vitro Fertilization

Related overtures: 5-19, 5-20, 5-21

Open resolution
5-12pp. 107-108thanksgiving or commendation

To Conclude Created Male and Female Task Force and Receive Its Recommendations

Related overtures: 4-36, 5-41

Open resolution
5-13pp. 108-109thanksgiving or commendation

To Give Thanks to God for 1700th Anniversary of First Council of Nicaea

Related overtures: 5-37, 5-44

Open resolution
5-14pp. 109-110decline overture

To Respectfully Decline Overtures

Related overtures: 5-11, 5-12, 38-39

Open resolution

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