# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S356
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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PROPOSED AGENDA

P Let us pray.

Almighty and merciful God and Father. we thank and praise vou that vou
graciously preserve and enlarge vour family and have granted _--: _ the new
birth in Holy Baptism and made _-- ~~ a member of your Son, our Lord Jesus
Christ, and an heir of your heavenly kingdom. We humbty implore you that, as
—2.+ — has now become your child, you would keep in 2+
baptismal grace that according to all your good pleasure —~ ~~: _ may faithfully
grow to lead a godly life to the praise and honor of your holy name and finally with
all your saints obtain the promised inheritance in heaven; through Jesus Christ, our
Lord.

f Amen

11 In the case of an infant or young child this prayer may be said.

P Lord and giver of life, look with kindness upon the father and mother of this
child, and upon all our parents. Let them ever rejoice in the gift you have given
them. Enable them to be teachers and examples of righteousness for their
children. Strengthen them in their own Baptism so that they may share eternally
with their children the salvation you have given them: through Jesus Christ. our
Lord.

@ Amen

12. The baptismal group may turn tow ard the congregation: a representative of
the congregation may say

Through Baptism God has added __~"~___to his own people to declare the
wonderful deeds of our Savior, who has called us out of darkness into his
marvelous light

@ We welcome sou into the Lord's family. We receive you as a fellow member
of the bods of Christ. a child of the same heavenly Father, to work with us in his
kingdom

Po __-».___, the Lord bless vou in all your ways from this time forth and even
forevermore.
f Amen

13. The pastor says:
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CONFIRMATION

1. After a hymn of invocation of the Holy Spirit has been sung. the
catechumens gather before the altar, and the minister addresses them:

P Beloved in the Lord, our Lord Jesus Christ said: “All authority in heaven and
on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I will be with
you always, to the very end of the age.”

You have been baptized and you have been taught the faith according to our
Lord's bidding. The fulfillment of his bidding we now celebrate with thankful
hearts, rejoicing to confess the faith into which you were baptized and which
you yourselves will now confess before the Church.

Jesus said: “Whoever confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my
Father in heaven. But he that denies me before men, | will deny him before my
Father in heaven,”

Lift up your hearts therefore to the God of all grace and joyfully give answer to
what. in the name of the Lord, as a minister of his Church, | now shall ask you.

» Do you this day in the presence of God and of this congregation
acknowledge the gifts which God gave you in your Baptism?

+ ldo
* Do you renounce the devil and all his works and all his ways?

Ido

® And now with all the baptized we call upon God, our Abba. Father.

G Our Father wno ar in heaven. OR @ Our Father in heaven.
haliowed be ths name, hallowed be your name.
ths kingdom come. your kingdom come.
thy will be done sour will be done

on earth as it is in heaven on earth as in heaven
Give us this das our daily bread: Give us today our daily bread.
and torgive us our trespasses Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those as we forgive those
who trespass against us: who sin against us
and lead us not into temptation. lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us trom evil. but deliver us from evil
For thine is the kingdom For the kingdom. the power,
and the power and the glon and the glory are sours
forever and ever. Amen now and forever. Amen

MH Alfreturn to ther places. The service continues with the Introit. Psaim, or
Entrance Hymn

P Do you believe in God, the Father Almighty?

+ Yes. beheve in God, the Father Almighty.
maker of heaven and earth

P Do you believe in Jesus Christ. his only Son?

+ Yes. $ believe in Jesus Christ. his only Son, our Lord.
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
born of the virgin Man.
sulfered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried
He descended into hell
The third day he rose again trom the dead
He ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of God
the Father Almighty.
From thence he will come to judge the living and the dead

P Do you believe in the Holy Spirit?

+ Yes. | beheve in the Holy Spirit.
the holy Christian Church.
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins.
the resurrection of the bods,
and the life everlasting.

P Do you intend to continue steadfast in this confession and Church and to
suffer all, even death, rather than fall away from it?

+ Ido so intend with the help of God
P Do you hold all the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures to be the inspired
Word of God and confess the doctrine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church,
drawn from them, as you have learned to know it from the Small Catechism, to
be faithful and true?

+ Ido

® Do you desire to be a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and of
this congregation?

+ bdo