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.

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response reading 109. Church Dedication
PRES: You who minister in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God. Praise the LORD.
CONG: for the LORD is good; sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
PRES: I have built a magnificient temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.
CONG: "Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool
PRES: Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors,
CONG: that the King of glory may come in.
PRES: Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God.
CONG: Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence.
PRES: These I will bring to my holy mountain
CONG: and give them joy in my house of prayer.
PRES: Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar
CONG: for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations
But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him

hymnal 600
1. The Church's one FoundationIs Jesus Christ, her Lord.
She is His new creation By water and the word.
From heaven He came and sought her To be His holy bride;
With His own blood He bought her, And for her life He died.

2. Elect from every nation,Yet on over all the earth;
Her charter of salvation One Lord, one faith, one birth;
One holy name she blesses;Partakes one holy food;
And to one hope she presses,With every grace endued.

3. And she on earth hath unionWith God, The Three in One,
And mystic sweet communionWith those whose rest is won:
Oh, happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we,
Like them, the meek and lowly,On high may dwell with Thee. 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.

Ephesians 2:11-22
11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)--
12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,
15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,
16 and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household,
20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.
22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.