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What will the ReClaim's Lutheran Hymnal for Church and Home look like?
ReClaim Resources will be producing a variety of customizable hymnals for congregations and individuals, but we will also create a very specific hymnal, the ReClaim Hymnal for Church and home, which will include many of the following qualities:
- Maintains a faithful witness to the Common Service.
- Updates the language and music of the Common Service.Removes any notion that we participate in the death (and, therefore, atonement) of Christ.Removes the ceremony of bringing the gifts (elements) with the offering.
- Removes any ceremony in receiving the congregation's offering.Exhorts communicants on the meaning of communion and binds or looses the sinner in accordance with Jesus' commands.
- Recognizes the words of the liturgy to be of more consequence than its music.
- Provides several musical liturgical settings.Restores the proper baptismal emphasis on the Word of God rather than water.
- Proclaims the Holy Spirit coming by God's own Word, and promises it to the one being baptized.Returns the promises of the parents and sponsors to that of raising children in the Lutheran faith using the Bible and the catechism.
- Restores the promise of sponsors to attend to the spiritual nurture of a child regardless of what parents do.
- Focuses on what Scripture says about marriage, with the emphasis on the love of a man and woman for each other and their shared love for God.
- Adapts the service of marriage in The Book of Common Prayer with its use of the traditional marriage vows.
- Restores the funeral order to the traditional reading of Scripture, known as the Order of Salvation, so the living can hear the good news of salvation and be admonished to care for their own souls.
- Eliminates prayers of commendation for the dead.Utilizes words and hymns that are most comforting to mourners seeking the Word of God.Includes hymns that are favorites and usable for the complete church year, and that serve as an anchor for faith.
- Encourages frequent repetition of hymns so they are memorized and thereby available when joys or sorrows are encountered in daily living.
- Includes Luther's Small Catechism—faithful in its translation, updated for today, a central teaching tool for Lutherans over the ages.Includes lectionary resources, selected psalms and Scripture, creeds, prayers, matins, vespers, and the Augsburg Confession.
Online Worship Tool - Coming Soon!
We are designing a special online worship tool that will deliver our content to worship planners to help them create worship services as well as customizable printed worship hymnals. This tool will be easy to use, flexible in arranging content, and provide a wide array of music and worship materials. It will be affordable for large or small churches, priced according to size, and ultimately help them prepare for weekly worship services in ways that are theologically sound, diverse in content, and powerful in application across the various methods used to lead worship (printed, electronically, or projected).
This cutting edge electronic worship planning tool that will provide a pathway to deliver our worship content in a number of ways. This web based worship tool that will enable churches or individuals to design, print, or deliver their worship materials through projection or internet based products like the Apple iPad.
Once a traditional hymnal is printed, it is static; you cannot change or add to it once it is
printed. You can't add hymns, or remove them, you can't fix mistakes or create new liturgies for different occasions. But with our electronic worship tool, we will have the ability to continually develop new, quality materials as they become available. We estimate its completion and beta testing in the fall of 2011 and full launch in early 2012.
Submission Guidelines for a Musical Setting of Holy Communion
Download a PDF to see instructions for submitting a Musical Setting for inclusion in ReClaim's worship resources.
Hymn Submissions
If you would like to suggest a hymn for inclusion in our worship resources or hymnals, please contact us with your suggestions or submissions directly through our info at