Convention Overtures
Below you will find links to Convention Overtures we at the ACELC have been working on so that you might use them as models for Overtures to submit at Congregational Voters' Meeting or Circuit Forums (these links will allow you to download the file). Please feel free to modify or change them as you see fit. We certainly don't believe we have said all that can be said, or that we have said it in the best way. We pray you will find them to be helpful for your situation. If you do use any of them, do not attribute them to us, as we put these forward only as a public service to the Church. If you have any suggestions for changes, other Overtures you might like to see, or Overtures you might like us to consider, please drop us a line and let us know what you think.
- To Officially Acknowledge Closed Communion As Official LCMS Practice
- To Reject and Condemn Errant Communion Practices
- To Encourage Harmony in the District's Worship
- To Address Lay Ministry according to the Lutheran Confessions and the Constitution of the LCMS
- To Address The Nature of the Pastoral Office and the Unbiblical Removal of Men from that Office
- To Ask the CTCR and Seminaries to Evaluate Transforming Churches Network
- To Cease District Promotion and Involvement in Natural Church Development
- To Increase Communication between District Office and Pastors regarding Church Member Contacts
- To Declare it Contrary to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions to Join in Prayer with Those who Deny Only Way to the True God
- To Promote Unity in Worship at District Conferences and Conventions
- To Request that Synod State that Women are not to Have Authority Over Men
- To Clarify Synod's Reaffirmation of Close(d) Communion
- To Reaffirm that the Standard for Pastoral Admission to the Lord’s Supper remains Full Agreement in All Articles of Christian Doctrine
- To Review AALC Relationship
