Word: behnken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco's Civic Auditorium, 1,000 delegates to the 44th triennial convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod labored to keep their closely knit conservative denomination (2,200,000 members) as closely knit and conservative as ever. To further both aims, the convention re-elected Dr. John W. Behnken president for another three-year term. To 75-year-old Dr. Behnken, who has headed the synod for the past 24 years, sound and solid doctrinal agreement is the only safe basis of collaboration with any other church body; his election is a guarantee that the Missouri Synod will continue...
...Where indifference to doctrine prevails," Dr. Behnken warned the delegates, "and where men insist on compromises rather than sound agreement in doctrine, termites have been doing their destructive work . . . What Lutheranism needs is not greater and greater numbers at any cost, but a. positive and unflinching loyalty to God's word and the Lutheran confessions...
...convention backed Dr. Behnken in voting to make a 1932 statement of the Missouri Synod's doctrinal position binding on all pastors and teachers with the force of the Bible and the confessions themselves. Known as the "Brief Statement,'' it is an 8,000-word document that holds, among other things, that the Bible contains "no errors or contradictions," historical, scientific or otherwise...
...Behnken, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod: "I do not believe that there are at the moment many deep religious convictions among these seekers...
...first things they did was to re-elect the Rev. John W. Behnken, 69, a veteran of 18 years in the job, as president of the Missouri Synod for another three years. Silver-haired President Behnken delivered an acceptance speech in which he spoke some pointed words about church union...