Publications

Worship and Procession | Consider This | Worship Q&A | Renewing Worship 
Churchwide Statements on Worship | Additional Publications 

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Worship Staff Publications: Worship and Procession

Since at least 1989, the Worship staff at the ELCA has been publishing a quarterly on worship, featuring essays, planning ideas, resources, and bibliographies. The periodical was titled Worship, and was replaced by Procession in 2001. Procession is published by Renewing Worship, the ELCA's five-year project established to determine the "next generation" of worship resources for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Issues of Worship (from 1996 to 2000) are available for download, as well as all issues of Procession. These issues are in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF). Choose a publication from the menu on the left.

Worship Staff Publications: Consider This

In its November-December 2000 issue, Seeds for the Parish (the resource paper for leaders of ELCA congregations) introduced a new column called "Consider this..." The column has looked at ways ELCA congregations are discovering the diverse riches that are available within the liturgy. In Consider this, those who are responsible for planning and leading worship are invited to consider some alternatives to their current practice in an effort to heighten the meaning of liturgical actions for worshipers. The idea is to help worship planners consider different ways of doing things to enrich the worship in their own congregation. To read past columns, visit the Seeds for the Parish Web site and select any available issue. The first eight columns of Consider this, which look specifically at the parts that make up the liturgy (Gathering, Word, Meal, Sending), are also available in one convenient Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file.

Worship Staff Publications: Worship Q&A

For those acquainted with the popular Q&A series, those essays are available in the  Frequently Asked Questions section.

Renewing Worship

For information on publications in the Renewing Worship series.

Churchwide Statements on Worship

• The Use of the Means of Grace is the ELCA's statement on the practice of word and sacrament, as adopted for guidance and practice by the Fifth Biennial Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, August 19, 1997. [Spanish translation: El uso de los Medios de Gracia. Mandarin (Chinese) translation (PDF only)]
  
• The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, on April 15, 1991, adopted the "Statement of Policy and Procedures for Review of Liturgical Materials Prepared by Churchwide Units."