To Request that Synod State that Women are not to Have Authority Over Men in the Church Even in Humanly Established Offices
WHEREAS, Resolution 3-08A adopted at the 2004 Synodical convention resolved “that women may serve in humanly established offices in the church as long as the functions of these offices do not make them eligible to carry out ‘official functions [that] would involve public accountability for the function of the pastoral office’; and
WHEREAS, Holy Scripture plainly states in I Timothy 2:12 that women are not permitted to exercise authority over a man, “I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man”; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod in convention state, in accordance with Scripture, that women may serve only in humanly established offices in the church that do not exercise authority over men.