One of our members said to me yesterday: "I thought we were going to use the new hymnals for everything, but we're using a communion setting from the LBW."
The setting that we are currently using at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday service is Setting Four from Evangelical Lutheran Worship. This setting previously appeared in the Lutheran Book of Worship as setting II. So yes, it's from the LBW, but it's also in ELW. Since our weekly printed bulletins contain the liturgy, it would be easy to not realize that the setting is in ELW.
Our plan is to continue to seasonally rotate the settings that we use, and to introduce one of the new settings from ELW sometime in the next year. The goal is to use a variety of settings, but to use a select number of them in such a way that the congregation can be familiar with the music for each of the settings that we use.
We'll be looking at the ELW setting by Joel Martinson, which started out as the provisional setting we used several years ago but has been modified. During Lent this year, we used ELW setting Five, which is a plain chant setting derived from Setting III in LWB and from one of the settings in the "old" red hymnal. Setting I from LBW also appears in ELW as Setting Three; and Setting V from With One Voice appears in large part in the Service of the Word in ELW.
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