# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S363
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

PROPOSED AGENDA

The penitent and pastor continue:

Sing to the Lord. you saints of his: praise his hols name. For his anger lasts onls
a moment, but his favor lasts a hfetime: weeping may remain for a night. but
rejoicing comes in the morning. O Lord my God. | will give sou thanks forever
(Ps. 30:4-5. 12b)

& The pastor says:

P Goin the strength, the peace. and the joy of the Lord, and come soon to receive
Christ's body and blood and, being joined to him, live toward the work and the
beauty he would fulfill in vou for himself and for others. Go, you are free.

INVOCATION AND CONSOLATION

“Those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their
affliction.” (Job 36:15)

All my longings lie open before you. O Lord: my sighing is not hidden from you.
O Lord, do not forsake me; be not far from me, O my God. Come quickly to
help me, O Lord my Savior. (Ps. 3&:9, 21-22)

Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry for help come to you. Do not hide your face
from me when I am in distress. (Ps. 102:1-2)

Out of the depths I cry to you. O Lord: O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be
attentive to my cry for mercy. Ifyou, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who
could stand? But with vou there is forgiveness; therefore vou are feared. I wait
for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. (Ps. 1 20:1-5)

Is any one of vou sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and
anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will
make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be
forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that
you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. (Jame>
S:14-164

O Lord. you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I
rise: you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying
down; vou are familiar with all my ways. Before a sword is on my tongue you know it
completely, O Lord. You hem me in—behind and before: vou have laid your hand
upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where
can | go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the
heavens, you are there: if | make my bed in the depths, vou are there. If I rise on the
wings of dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea. even there vour hand will guide
me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and
the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to vou: the
night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to vou. Search me, O God, and
know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive
way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Ps. 139:]-12, 23-24)

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed. for his compassions
never fail. They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness. I say to
myself, “The Lord is my portion: therefore { will wait for him.” The Lord is good
to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him: it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord. (Lam. 3:22-26)

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MINISTRY TO THE SICK
AND INFIRM

1. Members of the congregation are encouraged to notify the pastor when a
member is sick, that prayer may be offered and that by the ministry of Word and
Sacrament the afflicted may be strengthened in faith and hope.

2. By means of the Word of God the pastor will instruct his people. especially in
time of sickness, to trust in God. confident that. according to his gracious promise,
in all things he works for the good of those who love him.

3. When the pastor is called 10 minister to an unbeliever. he will seek 10 speak the
Word of God to him/her that he/she may be moved to repentance and faith in
Christ

4. This ministration ts subject to the discretion of the pastor and may be adapted to
the situation. Ordinarily it will include a Reading from the Hol, Scriptures anda
brief meditation on 11; Confession and Absolution: Intercessory Prayer. Lord's
Praser. and Benediction.

5. When the pastor comes into the presence of the sick person. he may say the

following or some other greeting

P Peace be to this house and all who dwell here.

: Amen

6. The pastor may read any of the following portions of Holy Scripture and
give words of comfort based on them

“Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he
has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.” ( Hos. 6:1)

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save
the world through him. (John 3:17)

“... whoever comes to me I will never drive away.” (John 6:37b)

God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While ¥e were still sinners, Christ
died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we
be saved from God's wrath through him! (Rom. §:&-9)

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us
throw ff everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us
run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus,
the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the
cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will
not grow weary and lose heart. In your struggle against sin, you have not vet
resisted to the point of shedding your blood. (Heb. 12:14)

FORGIVENESS AND REDEMPTION

Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed
is the man whose sin the Lord does not count against him and in whose spirit is
no deceit. When I kept silent. my bones wasted away through my groaning all
day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was
sapped as in the heat of summer. Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did
not cover up my iniquity. 1 said, “I will confess my transgressions to the
Lord"—and you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Ps. 32:1-S)

I waited patiently for the Lord: he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me
out of the slimy pit. out of the mud and mire: he set my feet on a rock and gave
me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth. a hymn of praise to
our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord. (Ps. 40:|-3)

“Call upon me in the day of trouble; | will deliver you, and you will honor me.~
(Ps. 50:15)

A few davs later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum. the people heard that he
had come home. So many gathered that there was no room eft. not even outside the
door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a
paralstic. carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of
the crowd. they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and. after digging through

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