Holy Communion
Please consider the following statement regarding services in which Holy Communion is celebrated at Oak Road Lutheran Church.
The Lord’s Supper is celebrated in this congregation of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod with the confession and confidence that Jesus gives into our mouths not only bread and wine but His very Body and Blood, indeed His whole Person, to eat and drink for the forgiveness of sins and to strengthen our union with Him and with one another. Our Lord Jesus Christ invites to His Supper all those who:
Acknowledge that they are sinners in need of God’s forgiveness;
Intend to turn from sin with God’s merciful help and desire to live a life pleasing to Him;
Believe Jesus Christ truly forgives all our sins through the means of grace in this Sacrament of Holy Communion;
Acknowledge that the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, indeed the whole Person of Christ, are truly present in the Sacrament, and that we receive Him in, with, and under the bread and wine we eat and drink.
Those who eat and drink our Lord’s Body and Blood unworthily – that is, not believing He is truly present or are not repentant of their sins – do so to their great harm. Holy Communion is a confession of faith, which is confessed at this altar. Therefore, any who are in doubt, or hold an understanding of the Lord’s Supper that differs, and yet desire to receive this Sacrament, should speak with the Pastor or an Elder.
The Lord’s Supper is celebrated in this congregation of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod with the confession and confidence that Jesus gives into our mouths not only bread and wine but His very Body and Blood, indeed His whole Person, to eat and drink for the forgiveness of sins and to strengthen our union with Him and with one another. Our Lord Jesus Christ invites to His Supper all those who:
Acknowledge that they are sinners in need of God’s forgiveness;
Intend to turn from sin with God’s merciful help and desire to live a life pleasing to Him;
Believe Jesus Christ truly forgives all our sins through the means of grace in this Sacrament of Holy Communion;
Acknowledge that the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, indeed the whole Person of Christ, are truly present in the Sacrament, and that we receive Him in, with, and under the bread and wine we eat and drink.
Those who eat and drink our Lord’s Body and Blood unworthily – that is, not believing He is truly present or are not repentant of their sins – do so to their great harm. Holy Communion is a confession of faith, which is confessed at this altar. Therefore, any who are in doubt, or hold an understanding of the Lord’s Supper that differs, and yet desire to receive this Sacrament, should speak with the Pastor or an Elder.
