Ad Crucem NewsLCMS 2023 ConventionCommittee 6Pastoral Ministry and Seminaries
To Require Knowledge of Scripture and Confessions from Candidates for Ordained Ministry
- Committee
- 6. Pastoral Ministry and Seminaries
- Submitted by
- Holy Trinity Walnut, ILcongregation
- Workbook page
- 340
WHEREAS, The Synod, and every member of the Synod, accepts without reservation: written Wordof God and the only rule and normof faith and of practice; Church as a true and unadulterated statement and exposition of the Word of God, to wit: the three Ecumenical Creeds (the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed), the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles, the Large Catechism of Luther, the Small Catechism of Luther, and the Formula of Concord (Constitution Article II); and
WHEREAS, One vows the same as part of the rite of ordination; and
WHEREAS, One cannot honestly take such vows without knowing the contents of the canonical Scriptures and the Book of Concord; and
WHEREAS, One cannot be considered “apt to teach” without a knowledge of what one is teaching; therefore be it
Resolved, That the following bylaw be added:
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING 2.7 Eligibility for Individual Membership …
2.7.6 No one shall be considered qualified for membership as an ordained minister except upon his written affirmation to the pertinent faculty or colloquy committee that he has read the Holy Scriptures and the Book of Concord in their entirety.