Liturgical Forms and Resources
Lift Up Your Hearts is a hymnal created and endorsed by two denominations, the Christian Reformed Church in North America(link is external) and the Reformed Church in America(link is external). The following is a list of the liturgical forms approved for use by the Synods of each denomination. You can find them listed in alphabetical order.
Questions? Email hymnal@crcna.org(link sends e-mail)
Confessions and Statements of Faith from Lift Up Your Hearts
This document accompanies the hymnal as a resource for worship planning, preaching, and/or private devotion. It has identified selections from the confessions and statements of faith of the Christian Reformed Church in North America and Reformed Church in America, that speak the same testimony as a selection from Lift Up Your Hearts, and can be used liturgically in worship with the psalm, hymn, or spiritual song.
Forms, Confessions and Catechism
Christian Reformed Church in North America
Baptism of Adults
- Form for the Baptism of Adults (1978)(link is external)
- Form for the Baptism of Adults (1976)(link is external)
Baptism of Children
- Service for Baptism (2013)(link is external)
- Service for Baptism (1991, approved 1994)(link is external)
- Service for Baptism (1981)(link is external)
- Service for Baptism (1976)(link is external)
- Service for Baptism II (1976)(link is external)
Excommunication and Readmission
- Form for Excommunication (1991)(link is external)
- Form for Readmission (1991)(link is external)
- Form for Excommunication (1982)(link is external)
- Form for Readmission (1982)(link is external)
Marriage
- Form for the Soleminization of Marriage (1979)(link is external)
- Form for the Soleminization of Marriage (1912)(link is external)
Ordination and Installation
- Covenant for Officebearers in the Christian Reformed Church (2012)(link is external)
- Form for the Ordination of Elders and Deacons (1982)(link is external)
- Form for the Ordination of Evangelists (1982)(link is external)
- Form for the Ordination/Installation of Ministers (1986)(link is external)
- Form for the Ordination/Istallation of Ministers (1971)(link is external)
Profession of Faith
- Form for the Profession of Faith (2013)(link is external)
- Form for the Profession of Faith (1989)(link is external)
- Form for the Profession of Faith (1976)(link is external)
- Form for the Profession of Faith (1932)(link is external)
The Lord's Supper
- The Lord's Supper (1994)(link is external)
- Preparatory Exhortation for the Lord's Supper (1981)(link is external)
- Service for Word and Sacrament (1981)(link is external)
- Form for the Celebration of the Lord's Supper (1964)(link is external)
- Form for the Celebration of the Lord's Supper II (1964)(link is external)
Faith Formation Committee
- About the Faith Formation Committee(link is external)
- Video(link is external)
- For Parents(link is external)
- For Councils(link is external)
- For Pastors(link is external)
- Baptism Resources(link is external)
- Lord's Supper Resources(link is external)
- Profession of Faith Resources(link is external)
- FAQs(link is external)
Reformed Church in America
Part I: Lord's Day/Lord's Supper/Communion
- Preparatory Service I: Before the Celebration of the Lord's Supper (1994): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Preparatory Service II: Before the Celebration of the Lord's Supper (1994): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Preparatory Exhortation before the Celebration of the Lord's Supper (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Preparatory Service (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order of Worship for the Lord's Day (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order of Worship (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- An Alternate Order of Worship (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for the Second Table (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- An Alternate Order for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (1906): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- An Alternate Order for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (1792): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Lord's Supper in Home and Hospital (1990): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
Part II: Baptism
- The Order for the Sacrament of Baptism (1994): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for the Profession of Faith (2001): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
(also for reaffirmation of faith and transfer of membership) - The Sacrament of Baptism (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order for the Sacrament of Infant Baptism (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- An Alternate Order for the Administration of Baptism (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- An Alternate Order for the Administration of Baptism, Abridged (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order for the Baptism of Adults and Their Admission to the Lord's Table (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Provisional Order for Celebrating Baptism, and Professing and Reaffirming Faith: A Combined Order(link is external) (2011)
Part III: Wedding
- Order for Christian Marriage (2002): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order of Worship for Christian Marriage (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for the Solemnization of Marriage (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
Part IV: Funeral
- Order for Christian Burial: A Service of Witness to the Resurrection (2002): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order of Worship for Christian Burial (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order of Service for the Burial of the Dead (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Committal Service for an Adult (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order of Service for Burial of a Child (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Committal Service for a Child (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Funeral for a Stillborn Child (1992): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order of Service for Burial for One Who Has Lived Apart from the Church (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Committal Service for One Who Has Lived Apart from the Church (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
Part V: Occasional Services
- Praying Together (1997): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Celebration for the Home (1994): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Service of Farewell and Godspeed for Pastor and Congregation (1994): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Blessing-Prayer for Godspeed: A Service of Farewell (1993): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Reception into Communicant Membership (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order for Admission to the Lord's Table of Those Baptized in Infancy (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order for Admission from Other Churches (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Orders for Christian Healing (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Service of Christian Healing in Home or Hospital (1984): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Christian Healing in the Context of the Order of Worship (1984): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for the Visitation of the Sick (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for the Visitation of the Dying (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order for Church Discipline (1792): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Ordination and Installation of Elders and Deacons (2000): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order for Ordination and Installation of Elders and Deacons (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Ordination and Installation of Elders and Deacons (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Commissioning Christians to the Ministries of the Church (2001): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Recognition of Ministries in the Church (2001): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Installation of Church Workers (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Commissioning of Christians to Ministries of the Church (1990): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for the Dedication of a Church (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Laying the Cornerstone of a Church Building (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for the Receiving and Dedication of Memorials, Gifts, and Furnishings (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
Classical Services
- Order for Ordination to the Office of Minister of Word and Sacrament (2000): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Reception into the Classis and Installation of a Minister of Word and Sacrament (2000): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Commissioning a Minister of Word and Sacrament into a Specialized Ministry (2001): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Reception into the Classis and Installation of a Minister of the Word (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Ordination and Installation of a Minister of the Word (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order for Installation of a Minister (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Directory for Reception into Classis and Installation into a Specialized Ministry (1987): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- The Order for the Ordination and Installation of a Minister or Missionary (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for Commissioning a Commissioned Pastor (2011): Intro(link is external); RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Order for the Organization of a New Congregation in the Church of Jesus Christ (1968): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Proposed Order for the Organization of a New Church: RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Worship at the Closing of a Church (1994): RTF(link is external); PDF(link is external)
Part VI: Confessions
- Belhar Confession (1986): webpage(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Belgic Confession (1561, 1991): webpage(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Canons of Dort (1618-1619, 1991): webpage(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Heidelberg Catechism (1563, 1989): webpage(link is external); PDF(link is external)
- Our Song of Hope (1978): webpage(link is external)
Part VII: The Directory for Worship: webpage(link is external); PDF(link is external)
Occasional Liturgies
- Occasional Use Liturgy, no. 1 (Communion) PDF(link is external),RTF(link is external)
- Formula of Agreement Liturgy PDF(link is external), RTF(link is external)
- Lima Eucharistic LIturgy PDF(link is external),RTF(link is external)
- Consultation on Church Union Liturgy PDF(link is external),RTF(link is external)
- Special Litanies (link is external)
- Children at the Lord's Table(link is external)