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St. John’s Lutheran Church – LCMS
1101 6th Street • Sutherlin, OR 97479
Holy Baptism
What is Baptism?
Baptism is not just plain water, but it is the water included in God’s command and combined with God’s Word.1What’s so special about a handful of simple water? Nothing, until God connects His Word to it! In Baptism, that is exactly what God is doing. He combines His life-creating and life-giving Word with the waters of Holy Baptism, and thereby we are born again of water and the Spirit (John 3:5)
Holy Communion
What is Jesus giving us in the Lord’s Supper?
In the Sacrament of the Altar (aka The Lord’s Supper, The Eucharist, Holy Communion) our Lord and Savior is continually distributing to us the body and blood of the sacrifice He made for us, the sacrifice by which He paid for the sins of the entire world. Thus, receiving His body and blood, we receive forgiveness, life and salvation. Flowing from these tremendous treasures of God’s mercy are the love, peace and hope that He gives us in His Supper, and the ability and desire to do God’s will, living in love and harmony with others.
What does the Lutheran church believe about the Lord’s Supper?
The Lutheran church believes, teaches and confesses that the Lord’s Supper is the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, under the bread and wine, given to us Christians to eat and to drink. We hold that the bread and the wine in the Supper are the true body and blood of Christ and that these are given and received into the mouths of all who commune.
Who May Receive The Lord’s Supper in The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS)?
Those who have been prepared in the LCMS and are current members of the LCMS in good standing. If you are unsure about this, please refrain from taking the Lord’s Supper and talk to the Pastor.
