Word: synods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belated but appreciative thank you for your July 20 report on the United Church of Christ. I mentioned in my sermon of last Sunday in reviewing the Oberlin General Synod how TIME had printed the adopted Statement of Faith, and its importance to all Protestants...
...bodies is no simple matter; in Congregationalism each local church is entirely autonomous, whereas the Evangelical and Reformed Church is set up in the European tradition of pyramidal administrative authority. The first order of business before the 700 delegates who met in Oberlin last week for the second General Synod of the merging churches was consideration of a new constitution to combine the two principles...
...that the Commission to Prepare a Constitution had not managed to circulate its draft until a few weeks before the Oberlin meeting; ministers had had little opportunity to discuss it with their church members, and many had not received copies at all. At first it looked as if the synod's inability to approve the constitution on such short notice would postpone its going into effect at least until the summer of 1963-General Synods meet only at two-year intervals. But the Oberlin meeting decided to reconvene for a special session next July to vote on the constitution...
...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...
...synod also adopted a new statement of principle on racial prejudice: "It is a violation of God's will for any man to treat his fellow man with contempt or to despise any particular race...