LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1983, Page 382

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PROPOSED AGENDA

this ministry, patience, understanding. and great zeal. Support and strengthen
him in your service that by your Word your Church may be built and increased:
through your Son, our great High Priest. Jesus Christ. our Lord.

@ Amen

OR

Almighty and most merciful God and Father, through your only-begotten
Son, Jesus Christ, you have established your Church to be a temple and dwelling
place of the Hoty Spirit. We give thanks that you continue to provide shepherds
to feed and serve your flock over which the Holy Spirit has made them overseers.
We humbly implore you ever to strengthen the labors of your ministers that
through their ministry of Word and Sacrament your people may bear fruit in
sour knowledge and service and grow up into him who is the head, Jesus Christ.
to whom. with you and the Holy Spirit. be glory now and forever.

Amen

12>. The congreganton may sing “To God the Holy Spirit Ler Us Pray.”
Hymn 15S.

13. The service continues with the Prayer of the Church. The new Is installed
paster continues the service as the presiding minuster.

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support him by your gifts and fervent prayer? Ifso, answer: We will with the help of
God.

@ We will with the help of God

The aysistang mumsters read une or More POTHONS OF Holy Scripture trom
each of the following secuons.

THE INSTITUTION OF THE OFFICE
OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY

A Then Jesus came to them and 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 vers end of the age.” ( Matt, 28: 18-20)

Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me. lam sending
you.” And with that he breathed on them and said. “Receive the Holy Spintt. If
you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven: if you do not forgive them, they
are not forgiven.” (John 20:21-23)

When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John.
do you truly love me more than these?” "Yes, Lord.” he said, “you know that I
love you.” Jesus said. “Feed my lambs.” Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John,
do you truly love me?” He answered. “Yes. Lord, you know that J love you.”
Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.” The third time he said to him. “Simon son
of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third
time, "Do you Jove me?” He said, “Lord. you know all things: you know that I
love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.” (John 2115-17)

THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE OFFICE
Of THE PUBLIC MINISTRY

A You did not choose me. but I chose you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will
last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.” (John 15:16)

Do not neglect your gift. which was given you through a prophetic message when
the bods of elders laid their hands on you. Be diligent in these matters: give yourself
wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and
doctrine closely. Persesere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself
and your hearers. (1 Tim. 4:14-16)

Let a man so account of us. as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the

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a
INSTALLATION OF

A MISSIONARY
OR CHAPLAIN

1. This rite is used bv those so authorized to install a misstonary or chaplain «hen
he has been called according to the Church's usual order to a specific field of
service

2) The installation 1s set within the Divine Service before the Praver of the Church.
The Propers are those of the Sundas or festival or those appointed on page KN).

2. In addition to the presiding minister. other pastors may serve as assiStINg
MUNESTerS.

4. Before the sersice begins. the presiding minister cathers all together for the
Word of God and prayer. Then all enter the church together. the one to be installed
going hefore the assisting nunisters. and the presiding minister last of all

Sit

S$ When the time for the installation has come. the one to be installed presents
himself betore the aliar. The presiding minister, standing before the altar, says.

p Inthe name of the Father and of the ++ Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen

4 The presiding munister addresses the congregation

p Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the Reverend ~~» ____ has been called
by the a board of —=+"= to serve as — to

Je. Lask you now, in the presence of God: Will you
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mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found
faithful. (1 Cor. 4:1-2)

Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are
competent to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from
God.12 Cor. 34-5)

Therefore. if anyone is in Christ. he isa new creation: the old has gone, the new
has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and
gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to
himself in Christ. not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed
to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as
though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's
behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so
that in him we might become the righteousness of God.42 Cor. £17-21)

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the
dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom. I give you this charge:
Preach the W ord; be prepared in season and out of season: correct. rebuke and
encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. F or the time will come
when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead. to suit their own desires,
they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their
itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn
aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do
the work of an evangelist. discharge all the duties of your ministry.(2 Tim. 41-5)

Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he
desires a noble task. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of
but one wife. temperate, self-controlied, respectable. hospitable. able to teach,
not given to much wine, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, nota lover of
money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him
with proper respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family.
how can he take care of God's church?) He must not be a recent convert, or he
may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. He must
also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he wilt not fall into disgrace
and into the devil's trap. (1 Tim. 3:1)

It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be
evangelists. and some to be pastors and teachers. to prepare God's people for
works of service. so that the body of Christ may be built up. (Fph. 4:1 1-12)

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Hols Spirit has made you
overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God. which he bought with his own blood.
(Acts 20:21

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