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."


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.

Hebrews 9:18-28
18 This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
19 When Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people.
20 He said, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep."
21 In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies.
22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23 It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence.
25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
26 Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.


Hymnal 540
v1 I am Thine, O Lord, I  have heard Thy voice, and it told Thy love to me
But I long to rise in teh arms of faith, and be closer drawn to Thee
Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to be the cross where Thou hast died
Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to Thy precious, bleeding side.
v2 Consecrate me now to Thy service, Lord, by the power of grace divine
Let my soul look up with a steadfast hope, and my will be lost in Thine
Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to the cross where Thou hast died;
Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to Thy precious, bleeding side.
v3 O the pure delight of a single hour that before Thy throne I spend
When I kneel in prayer, and with Thee, my God, I commune as friend with friend
Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to the cross where Thou hast died;
Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to Thy precious, bleeding side.
v4 There are depths of love that I cannot know till I cross the narrow sea;
There are heights of joy that I may not reach till I res tin peace with Thee
Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to the cross where Thou hast died;
Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord, to Thy precious, bleeding side.