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President of Synod Request for Opinion on Lawsuits between Christians or Members and 1
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The Request of the Synod President 4
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In correspondence dated November 12, 2024, the President o...
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Preface
The 2019 convention of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod (LCMS) passed Resolution 5-11, which asked t...
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Preface
The 2019 convention of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod (LCMS) passed Resolution 5-11, which asked t...
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R62.4 Response to the 2021 Final Report of the Theological Conversations between the ILC and the Roman Catholic Church (2024) R62.4
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in 3.1.2 as well as the connective unity between Christ’s sacrificial death and the S...
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in 3.1.2 as well as the connective unity between Christ’s sacrificial death and the S...
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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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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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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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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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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...