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What is Quaker Meeting for Worship? (Halifax, Canada Meeting's website) BBC Religion website: Quakers: Worship. Four Doors to Meeting for Worship by William P. Taber. See also a summary of William Taber’s Pendle Hill Pamphlet; Quaker Faith and Practice, Chapter 2 "Approaches to God – worship and prayer" of Britain Yearly Meeting
Local meetings are always subordinate to their area meeting, and in turn their yearly meeting. [10]: 4.32 Meetings for church affairs are also considered to be meetings for worship, meaning "they carry the same expectation that God’s guidance can be discerned if we are truly listening together and to each other". [10]: 3.02
Yearly Meeting is an organization composed of constituent meetings or churches of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, within a geographical area.The constituent meetings are called Monthly Meetings in most of the world; in England, local congregations are now called Area Meetings, in Australia Monthly Meetings are called Regional Meetings.
Covenant renewal worship is an approach to Christian worship practiced in some Reformed churches, in which the order of worship is modeled on the structure of biblical covenants and sacrifices. One popular order is as follows: [1] Call to Worship; Confession of sin; Consecration, which includes Bible readings and the sermon; Communion, or Lord ...
Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) include weekly services held in meetinghouses on Sundays (or another day when local custom or law prohibits Sunday worship) in geographically based religious units (called wards or branches). Once per month, this weekly service is a fast and testimony meeting.
an Orthodox temple is a place of worship with base shaped like Greek cross. Kingdom Hall – Jehovah's Witnesses may apply the term in a general way to any meeting place used for their formal meetings for worship, but apply the term formally to those places established by and for local congregations of up to 200 adherents.
A meeting-house had a dual purpose as a place of worship and for public discourse, but sometimes only for "...the service of God." [ 6 ] As the towns grew and the separation of church and state in the United States matured, the buildings that were used as the seat of local government were called town-houses [ 7 ] or town-halls. [ 8 ]
A church service (or a worship service) is a formalized period of Christian communal worship, often held in a church building. Most Christian denominations hold church services on the Lord's Day (offering Sunday morning and Sunday evening services); a number of traditions have mid-week services, while some traditions worship on a Saturday.