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LCMS 2026 Convention Workbook: Reports and Overtures, PDF page 8
4-38 To Amend Bylaws to Provide Clarity and Address Practical Considerations for Specialized Spiritual Care Ministry ...............323 4-39 To Use Title Chaplain within the Synod Exclusively for Ordained Clergy .........................324 4-40 To Encourage Use of Chalice ..............................324 4-41 To Celebrate Progress and To Encourage Increasing Faithfulness in Offering Every Sunday Communion .............................................325 4-42 To Encourage Unequivocal Affirmation of First Communion Prior to Confirmation as God-Pleasing Practice and To Encourage Congregations to Commune Visiting Communicant Children ....325 4-43 To Call All in Synod to Love, Peace, and Brotherly Care ...............................................326 4-44 To Exhort Members to Earnestly and Regularly Pray for and Pursue Synodical Unity, and To Appoint a Task Force ...............................326 4-45 To Address Persecution in the Church .................327 4-46 To Judge Practice by Word Alone .......................327 4-47 To Encourage Raising Up Public Servants ..........327 4-48 To Oppose Federal Immigration Raids and Call for Pastoral Advocacy ...........................328 4-49 To Provide Direction concerning Disputes Appearing on Social Media ..................................328 4-50 To Encourage Production of Sunday School Material for Very Small Congregations ...............328 4-51 To Address Uses of Artificial Intelligence ..........329 4-52 To Reject Use of Sermons Created by Artificial Intelligence ......................................330 4-53 To Acknowledge the Witness of Charlie Kirk and Establish September 10 as Day of Prayer for Faithful Witnesses in Our Time .....................330 4-54 To Recognize Charles James Kirk as Christian Martyr ...................................................................331 4-55 To Commend Confession That Charles James Kirk Died a Christian Martyr ...............................331 4-56 To Celebrate Concordia Historical Institute Centenary and Renew the Synod’s Commitment to Treasure and Trumpet Its Redeemed History ..332 5. Theology and Church Relations Reports R1–R1.1, R10, R12, R62–R62.13 Overtures 5-01 To Recognize Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with Evangelical Lutheran Christian Church of Bolivia ..............................................................335 PAGE PAGE 5-02 To Support and Encourage Recognition of Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with Lutheran Mission—Australia ..............................................336 5-03 To Address Concerns with Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church ..................................................337 5-04 To Admonish and Review Fellowship with Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church ........338 5-05 To Admonish and Converse with Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church ...............................339 5-06 To Address Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya Membership in Lutheran World Federation .........339 5-07 To Declare State of “Fellowship in Protest” with Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia .......339 5-08 To Recognize That the Synod Is Not in Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche ..........................340 5-09 To Reconsider Altar and Pulpit Fellowship with The American Association of Lutheran Churches. ..............................................................341 5-10 To Encourage and Promote Biblical Teaching of Creation ............................................................342 5-11 To Restore Apostles’ Creed to Historical Form regarding Christ’s “Descent into Hell” ................342 5-12 To Review Practice of Divine Call in Synod Constitution and Bylaws ......................................343 5-13 To Request Comprehensive Review When Call Is Terminated or Self-Terminated ................344 5-14 To Study How to Amend Practice of Issuing “Divine Calls” to Positions Not in Direct Service of Proclamation of Gospel and Administration of Sacraments ..............................344 5-15 To Encourage and Promote Sound Teaching on Eschatology or Last Things .............................345 5-16 To Reaffirm and Encourage Teaching and Practice of Closed Communion ...........................345 5-17 To Reaffirm, Enforce, and Restore Faithful Eucharistic Practice and Synodical Discipline concerning Unionism and Open Communion ......346 5-18 To Request Commission on Theology and Church Relations to Produce Study Document to Further Understanding and Conversations on Pastoral Exceptions to Closed Communion .......................347 5-19 To Reaffirm Sanctity of Human Life in Regard to Practice of In Vitro Fertilization ......................347 5-20 To Oppose Practice of In Vitro Fertilization .......348 5-21 To Address the Practice of In Vitro Fertilization .348 5-22 To Believe, Teach, and Confess Missio Dei ........349 5-23 To Rescind 1981 Resolution 8-05 and Request Commission on Theology and Church Relations Report on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation .....................................................350 2026 Convention Workbook