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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1983, Page 355

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PROPOSED AGENDA 355

and forgive 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 from evil but deliver us from evil.
For thine ts the kingdom For the kingdom, the power.
and the power and the glory and the glory are yours

forever and ever. Amen now and forever. Amen

® The Lord preserve your coming in and your going out from this time forth and
even forevermore.

Amen

The minister asks the parents and sponsors, who speak on behalf of the intants
and voung children, and the older children and adults, «ho can speak tor
themselves:

® Do you renounce the devil and all his works and alt his ways?
+ Ido renounce them.
& The minister addresses the baptismal group and the congregation

P {ask you to profess your faith in Christ Jesus and to confess the faith of the
Church, the faith into which we baptize.

@ | believe in God. the Father Almighty.
muker of heaven and earth

And in Jesus Christ. fis onty Son. our Lord.
who was concerved by the Holy Spirnt.
born of the virgin Man.
suffered under Pontius Pilate.

Was cruciied. died. and was buried
He descended inte hell.
The third das he rose again trom the dead
He ascended into heaven
and sits at the mght hand of God
the Father Almighty
From thence he will come to judge the living and the dead

[believe in the Holy Spirt,
the holy Christan Church.

RECOGNITION
OF AN EMERGENCY
BAPTISM BY THE CHURCH

1. This rite 1s tended to be set within the Divine Service immediately after the
opening himn.

2. The baptized and sponsors (and tamil /famuliesy gather 1th the pastor in the
nave.

3. The pastor addresses the baptismal group and the congregation:

Our Lord bids us to make disciples of all nations by baptizing them in the name
of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and by teaching what he has said
and given to us. We are to do both. If first we are able to teach, we do this toward
Baptism. If first we baptize, then it is with the understanding that the teaching will
be done.

In Baptism God puts his name on us with the water and his word, and there is then
no doubt that we are surely his with all that Christ achieved for us by his saving
death and resurrection. That we may have this certainty for =~. _ , you have
come to bear witness that you did baptize ~~ —_ in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit when it appeared that there might not be time for
__-+~ _ to be brought here and be baptized in the presence of the Church.

Before the Lord and his Church I therefore ask you. did you baptize —--:__ in
the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit?

4. The one who did the baptizing answers:

+ Idid.

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the communion of saint.

the forgiveness of sins.

the resurrection of the body.
and the lite everlasung. Amen

Sit

& When an ‘older child or) adult ts baptized. he/she need not be contirmed ina
separate rite. but the munister may ask him/her the following additional
question

P Will you continue steadfast in the true Christian faith as confessed by the
Evangelical Lutheran Church. be diligent in the use of God's Word and
sacraments, and lead a godly life, even to death?

* Tdeserr

end with the help of God

10, The minister pours water three times upon the head of the candidates). saving

Pp ___-___, [baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit. +

@ Amen

TL. The minister lays his hand upon the newly baptized and gives this Plessing

P Almighty God. the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. who has given you the new
birth of water and of the Spirit and has forgiven you all your sins, strengtrhen you
with his grace to life everlasting. Peace be with you.

Amen

12. 4ll return to their places. The service continues swith the Intrott Pyalm, 64
Entrance Himn

OR

S$ An authorized proxy testifies

was thus bapuzed by ——=>___

P When was this done?

On the day of ___ in this sear of our Lord

4. The pastor marks the cross upon the forehead and the heart of the bapuzed
and, laying his right hand upon the head. he savs

P The Lord has put his name upon you with the water and the Word of Baptism.
You are his. The Lord by his Word and Spirit bless you and make you grow to his
glad praise and service through all the days he gives you.

@ Amen

The pastor continues.
P Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. who has given you the
new birth of water and of the Spirit and has forgiven you all your sins,

strengthen you with his grace to life everlasting. Peace be with you.

@ Amen

&. 4 white garment may be pur upon the bapuzed.

P Receive this white garment to show that Christ has taken away and borne
your sin and put upon you his perfect righteousness. So shall you in faith ever
stand before him.

9. 4 baprismal candle may be lighted from the pas. hal or altar candle. In giving
the candle. the pastor savs:

P Receive this burning light. Live always by the light of Christ. and be ever

watchful for his coming that you may meet him with joy and enter with him to
the marriage feast of the Lamb in his kingdom, which shall have no end.

10. The baptismal group gathers before the altar.