I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ,
His only Son our Lod, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and buried;
He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy universal church,
the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.


Response Reading: 91. Communion 1
PRES: Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry."
CONG: and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
PRES: I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
CONG: This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
PRES: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
CONG: For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
PRES: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
CONG: Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
PRES: "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
CONG: By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."


Communion
Leader: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts.
All :We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
All: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Invitation
Christ our Lord invites to his table all who love him, who earnestly repent of their sin and seek to live in peace with one another. therefore, let us confess our sin before God and one another.

Confession of Sin
Merciful God, we confess that we have not lovd you with our whole heart. We have failed to be an obedient church. We have not done your will, we have brokekn your law, we have rebelled against your love, we have not loved our neighbors, and we have not heard the cry of the needy. Forgive us, we pray. Free us for joyful obedience, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Silent Prayer
Words of Assurance
hear the good news: Christ died for us while we ere yet sinners; that proves God's love toward us. in the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven;
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven
Glory to God, amen.

The great thanksigving

On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: "Take, eat: this is my body which is gvien for you. Do this in remembrance of me. When the supper was over, he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his discipoles, and said: "Drink from this, all of you. This is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.

Christ has died, Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

Giving the bread and cup

The bread and wine are given to the people, the congregation may sing hymn#284 while the bread and the cup are given.


Eternal God, we give you thanks for this holy mystery in which you have given yourself to us. Grant that we may go into the world in the strength of your spirit, to give ourselves for others, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.


Hymnal 450
1 My one wish, Lord, is this alone: To serve Thee all my days,
Then rise to stand before Thy throne And sing Thy deathless praise.
2 Why should I cling to things of earth, Like dreams which pass away,
Such dreams and toilings have no worth In heaven's eternal day.
3 The fiery trials our faith incurs, Unnumbered though they be,
Fear not for more than conquerors Through Jesus Christ are we.
4 More dear is faith than gems or gold: Rich jewel we receive;
Truth, flooding blessedness untold On all who but believe.
5 Like arrowflight the moments pass! Redeem, at Christ's control,
Thy days, and give on His behalf Heart, body, strength and soul! Amen.


hymnal 633
Take these gifts, take these gifts, O our God:
All we have, all we have comes from you.
With our voices raised in thanks, Lord, we give to you.
Amen.

2 Corinthians 5:13-21
13 If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
19 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.
20 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.
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.


Hymnal 421
v1 Everything is changed since my sins were forgiven, everything is changed since I knew the Lord
Now my feet are walking the pathway to heaven; all the guilty past now is under the blood
Everything is changed, praise the Lord! Now I am redeemed thro' the blood
Free from condemnation, God is my salvation, everything is changed, praise the Lord!
v2 Everything is changed, to God's name be the glory! Light instad of darkness fills my soul
everything is changed, 'tis the blessed old story; trusting Christ I'm now every whit made whole
Everything is changed, praise the Lord! Now I am redeemed thro' the blood
Free from condemnation, God is my salvation, everything is changed, praise the Lord!
v3 Everything is changed since the Spirit possessed me, since He filled my heart with the Savior's love
Since He took away all the fears that distressed me, helped me set my heart on the things above.
Everything is changed, praise the Lord! Now I am redeemed thro' the blood
Free from condemnation, God is my salvation, everything is changed, praise the Lord!