# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1979_S113
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3. THEOLOGY AND CHURCH RELATIONS

To Adopt Lutheran Worship
as an Official Hymnal of the LCMS

RESOLUTION 3-01

Report 3-02—3-03 (CW, pp. 88—89); Overtures 3-
111—3-121C (CW, pp. 121—124); Appendix IV
(CW, pp. 273—283)

WHEREAS, “There has been a desire for an updated
Lutheran hymnal by members of The Lutheran
Church—Missouri Synod” (Dallas Res. 3-04A); and

WHEREAS, The Special Hymnal Review Committee
(SHRC), created by the Synod at its 1977 convention,
has recommended that the Lutheran Book of Worship
be adopted with revisions; and

WHEREAS, The synodically appointed Commission
on Worship and its adjunct committees have prepared
Lutheran Worship, based on the evaluation and recom-
mendations of the SHRC, as well as numerous sugges-
tions from the membership of the Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church—Missouri
Synod (LCMS) in convention adopt Lutheran Worship
as an official hymnal of the LCMS (the general contents
of the book are appended to this resolution); and be it
further

Resolved, That the congregations of the LCMS be
encouraged to use Lutheran Worship as their service
book and hymnal.

General Contents of Liturgical Section of Proposed
Lutheran Worship:

1. The Calendar

a) The Sundays of the Church Year and the Prin-
cipal Festivals.

b) The Lesser Festivals arranged according to the
church year rather than the calendar year, thus begin-
ning with St. Andrew (November 30). The Commemor-
ations in Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) are dropped.

2. The three-year Lectionary from LBW plus the
revised Old Standard series.

3. Psalms for Daily Prayer from LBW.

4. The Order of Morning Service (pp. 5 ff.) and the
Holy Communion (pp. 15 ff.) from The Lutheran
Hymnal (TLH) will be structured into one service with
text updated, music preserved in melody but improved
in notation and harmony.

5. Holy Communion, Settings I and II, from LBW.
The music will be intact, but the texts will be altered to
conform to the recommendations of the Special Hymnal
Review Committee’s report, chiefly with regard to the
Confession and the Great Thanksgiving.

6. Matins and Vespers from TLH with updated texts
and improved musical settings largely based on present
Settings.

7. The Litany with revisions.
8. Morning Prayer from LBW with slight alterations.

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President Robert Sauer and Chairman Richard Schtecht of Commit-
tee 3 listening to the debate on the new hymnal

Vice-

9. Evening Prayer from LBW with slight alterations.

10. Compline from LBW with slight alterations.

11. Propers for Daily Prayer from LBW with alter-
ations.

12. Chorale Service of Holy Communion from LBW
with slight revisions.

13. Responsive Prayer! and II from LBWwithsome
textual changes.

14. Updated Morning and Evening Suffrages from
TLH, to be called Responsive Prayer III and IV respec-
tively, to be used as alternates to Responsive Prayers I
and II.

15. The Psalms (or Psalter) from NIV {New Inter-
national Version] will be included, but the number
largely restricted to those appointed for use in the
Lectionary during the church year. In addition the
Commission on Worship is providing a series of Introits
pointed to melodic formulae devised by the Liturgical
Texts and Music Committee of the commission.

16. The Canticles from LBW with the exception of
No. 17 (the Beatitudes).

17. A series of traditional, updated Collects for the
Day to replace those in LBW.

18. The inclusion of the Six Chief Parts and the
Christian Questions and Answers of Luther’s Small
Catechism (1943 version).

General Content of the H: ymn Section of Proposed
Lutheran Worship:

LBW TLH Ws

A

A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing!
A Lamb Alone Bears Willingly

(A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth)
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
A Multitude Comes from East and West
Abide with Me

157 212
105 142

228 & 229 262
313

272 552