Hymnals and Bible translations

The great majority of our congregations use Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal (1993). Work is progressing on producing a new hymnal in the second half of 2021.

Congregations determine which Bible translations they use. While many congregations in the recent past used the New International Version (1984), the introduction of the New International Version (2011) has provided congregations opportunity to examine and utilize other translations like the ESV, the Christian Standard Bible and the Evangelical Heritage Version.

Northwestern Publishing House, our church body’s publisher, recently produced a new edition of Luther’s Catechism. It is available with Scripture passages in the NIV (2011) or ESV.