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5-24 To Urge Church of Christ to Stay

and Do Her Duty ..................................................350

5-25 To Publicly Acknowledge Theological

and Ecclesial Errors in Church’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic .......................................351

5-26 To Rejoice in Proclamation of God’s Word

by His Called and Ordained Servants ..................352

5-27 To Condemn Use of Women as Lectors ..............352

5-28 To Affirm That God Does Indeed Prohibit

Females from Public Reading of Scriptures, for Reading Is Preaching/Heralding the Word .....353

5-29 To Correct Erroneous Practice of Women

Lectors ..................................................................354

5-30 To Reaffirm Doctrine of Men Serving

in Office of Holy Ministry ...................................354

5-31 To Reconsider Issue of Woman Suffrage

in the Church ........................................................355

5-32 To Reconsider Issue of Woman Suffrage

in the Church ........................................................355

5-33 To Reconsider Issue of Woman Suffrage

in the Church ........................................................356

5-34 To Direct that the Synod and Its Commission

on Theology and Church Relations Study and Reexamine Woman Suffrage in Light of Synod’s Historic Practice and Holy Scripture, so as to Address and Resolve Confusion and Disunity .....356

5-35 To Affirm Role of Women in the Church ............357

5-36 To Affirm Inspiration and Authority

of Mark 16:9–20 ...................................................357

5-37 To Clarify Doctrine of Holy Trinity over against

Eternal Functional Subordination of the Son .......358

5-38 To Declare Center for Missional and Pastoral

Leadership to be Heterodox Tract and Mission Society ..................................................................359

5-39 To Declare Center for Missional and Pastoral

Leadership to be Heterodox Tract and Mission Society ..................................................................359

5-40 To Address Release and Use of Luther’s Large

Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications .........................................................360

5-41 To Conclude Created Male and Female

Task Force and Receive Its Recommendations ............360

5-42 To Amend Bylaw 3.3.1.1.2 (c) to Designate

President’s Director of Church Relations as His Primary Representative for Ecclesiastical Relations with Other Church Bodies ...................361

5-43 To Refer Some Assignments from Commission on

Theology and Church Relations to Seminaries ....362

5-44 To Give Thanks to God for 1700th Anniversary

of First Council of Nicaea ....................................362

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6. Pastoral Ministry and Seminaries

Reports

R1, R1.2, R1.2.2–R1.2.3, R2.1, R5, R5.2,

R13–R13.6, R62.3, R62.10, R62.13

Overtures

6-01 To Uphold Seminary Formation That Faithfully

Teaches All Doctrines of Scripture and Lutheran Confessions and Practices That Accord with Them ............................................................363

6-02 To Uphold Deep and Broad Study of Holy

Scripture in Synod Seminaries .............................363

6-03 To Uphold Deep and Broad Study of Holy

Scripture in Synod Seminaries .............................363

6-04 To Uphold Deep and Broad Study of Holy

Scripture in Synod Seminaries .............................363

6-05 To Uphold Deep and Broad Study of Book

of Concord in Synod Seminaries .........................364

6-06 To Uphold Deep and Broad Study of Book

of Concord in Synod Seminaries .........................364

6-07 To Uphold Deep and Broad Study of Book

of Concord in Synod Seminaries .........................365

6-08 To Require Theological Competency Standards

for Eligibility to Exercise Ecclesiastical Oversight De Iure Humano ..................................365

6-09 To Amend Bylaw 2.13.1 to Clarify

Terminology for Specific Ministry Pastor Mentorship and Oversight ....................................366

6-10 To Amend Bylaw 3.10.5.7 to Address

Seminary Adjunct Faculty ...................................367

6-11 To Amend Bylaws to Reinsert 2007 Pastoral

Colloquy Bylaws from Policy Manual .................367

6-12 To Encourage Transparency and Clarity

in Pastoral Colloquy Process ................................369

6-13 To Encourage Transparency and Clarity

in Pastoral Colloquy Process ................................369

6-14 To Affirm Exclusive Seminary Path and

In-Person Formation for Pastoral Ministry ..........370

6-15 To Reaffirm the Synod’s Routes to Ministry .......370

6-16 To Affirm Exclusive Use of Synod Seminaries

to Prepare Men for Office of Holy Ministry ........371

6-17 To Affirm Exclusive Use of Synod Seminaries

to Prepare Men for Office of Holy Ministry ........372

6-18 To Affirm Exclusive Use of Synod Seminaries

to Prepare Men for Office of Holy Ministry ........373

6-19 To Affirm Exclusive Use of Synod Seminaries

to Prepare Men for Office of Holy Ministry ........374

6-20 To Affirm Exclusive Use of Synod Seminaries

to Prepare Men for Office of Holy Ministry ........375

6-21 To Strengthen Pastoral Formation

in the Synod .........................................................376 2026 Convention Workbook

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