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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
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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
