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Workbook page 271

2026 Convention Workbook 271 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS 1 President of Synod Request for Opinion on Lawsuits between Christians or Members and 1 Institutions of Synod 2 3 The Request of the Synod President 4 5 In correspondence dated November 12, 2024, the President o...

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Workbook page 150

2026 Convention Workbook 150 OFFICER, BOARD, AND COMMISSION REPORTS 7 than 10%, with some districts having half or more of their circuits in this range.12 At the same time, there are 1 districts reporting as many as a quarter of their circuits having net gains in the past three years.In this sense, 2 the vertical l...

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Workbook page 213

2026 Convention Workbook 213 THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS —COMMISSION ON THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS 5 in 3.1.2 as well as the connective unity between Christ’s sacrificial death and the Sacrament of the Altar (3.1.3). However, some terminology and emphases in section 3. Commonalities give pause. Here we mention t...

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Workbook page 286

2026 Convention Workbook 286 NATIONAL WITNESS on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” emphasize the unrealistic equality of outcome over against equality of opportunity, and such emphases have been documented even in a Synod university (2023 Convention Report R64, “Ecclesiastical Visitation of Concordia University...

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Workbook page 357

2026 Convention Workbook 357THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS WHEREAS, Woman suffrage permits women to vote against their husbands (their heads), which violates God’s order of creation and undermines marriage and the unity of the family as noted in Ephesians 5:22; Genesis 3:16; and 1 Peter 3:1; and WHEREAS, Woman suffr...

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Workbook page 492

the government), and in the Synod “the Office of the Ministry” has been termed “the highest office in the Church” (Francis Pieper, Christian Dogmatics Vol. III [St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1953], 461), which should not be understood as contradicting the rest of what Pieper wrote about the ministry (ext...

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