Holy
Communion – The Lord’s Supper is celebrated at this congregation
in the confession and glad confidence that, as He says, our Lord gives into our mouths not only bread and wine but His very
body and blood to eat and to drink for the forgiveness of sins and to strengthen our union with Him and with one another.
Our Lord invites to His table those who trust His words, repent of
all sins, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as He forgives and loves us, that they may show forth his death until
He comes.
Because
those who eat and drink our Lord’s body and blood unworthily do so to their great harm and because Holy Communion is
a confession of the faith which is confessed at this altar, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, refuse to amend their
sinful life, or who hold a confession differing from that of this congregation and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod are
asked, out of Christian love for you, not to commune.