Lutheran Service Book

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The pew edition of Lutheran Service Book

Lutheran Service Book (LSB) is the newest official hymnal of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS). It was prepared by the LCMS Commission on Worship and published by Concordia Publishing House, the official publisher of the LCMS. It is the fourth official English-language hymnal of the LCMS published since the synod began transitioning form German to English in the early 1900s. LSB is intended to succeed both The Lutheran Hymnal (TLH) and Lutheran Worship (LW) as the common hymnal of the LCMS. Supplemental and companion editions to the hymnal are scheduled for release throughout the end of 2006 and into 2007. The hymnal was officially approved by the LCMS at the 2004 LCMS National Convention in St. Louis. It was oficially released on September 1, 2006, but many customers who pre-ordered the hymnal received their copies several weeks earlier.

Lutheran Service Book is, coincidentally, one of two major Lutheran hymnals that were published almost simultaneously in the fall of 2006. Evangelical Lutheran Worship, the new hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was released in October 2006. The projects are in no way related.

1 Contents
2 Editions
3 Lutheran Service Builder
4 References
5 External links

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Most of the 150 psalms
Five musical settings of the Divine Service
- Divine Service One (by Richard Hillert, first introduced in Lutheran Book of Worship)
- Divine Service Two (also first introduced in Lutheran Book of Worship)
- Divine Service Three (the Common Service of 1888)
- Divine Service Four (from Hymnal Supplement 98)
- Divine Service Five (based on the Deutsche Messe by Martin Luther)
Musical settings of the daily offices
- Morning Prayer
- Evening Prayer
- Matins
- Vespers
- Compline
Other orders of service
- Holy Baptism
- Holy Matrimony
- Funeral
More than 100 prayers for various occasions and circumstances
Over 600 hymns and songs
Comprehensive cross-referenced indexes

[edit] Editions

In addition to the pew edition, several other editions of LSB are available:

Altar Book
Accompaniment editions
- LSB Accompaniment—Liturgy
- LSB Accompaniment—Hymns
- Guitar Edition
Lectionaries
- Three-Year Lectionary—Year A
- Three-Year Lectionary—Year B
- Three-Year Lectionary—Year C
- One-Year Lectionary
Agenda
Pastoral Care Companion

[edit] Lutheran Service Builder

In addition to the myriad editions of the hymnal, the Commission on Worship prepared an electronic edition of Lutheran Service Book known as Lutheran Service Builder. This computer program is structured in order to allow churches to easily prepare printed bulletins containing readings, hymns, and service music.