Word: synods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many denominations convene each year; the hardheaded, Bible-centered Lutherans of the Missouri Synod (membership: almost 2,000,000) meet only once in three years, and do a thorough job of it then. Last week they assembled in Houston for ten days of reports and plans...
...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...
...There have been some people who have urged that the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod link up with other church bodies in order to have the strength of greater numbers. You hear the argument again and again that then there would be greater financial strength, or that you could make greater and more effective impacts on the community or the nation or the world...
...task of the church," the synod proclaimed, "to give more expressive emphasis to matrimony as an existing order based on God's Word ... It is an act of mercy to meet disorder with order and stability...
Faced with a rise in divorce, the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church in 1946 liberalized its marriage canon; bishops got authority to decide whether or not divorced people could be remarried in church. Faced with a similar divorce rise, the synod of Germany's United Evangelical Lutheran Church has decided to do just the opposite. Last week a new, more stringent set of marriage regulations went into effect for 18 million German Lutherans...