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In many Christian traditions, regular public worship is complemented by worship in private and small groups, such as meditation, prayer and study. [3] Singing often forms an important part of Christian worship.
Christian liturgy is a pattern for worship used (whether recommended or prescribed) by a Christian congregation or denomination on a regular basis. The term liturgy comes from Greek and means "public work". Within Christianity, liturgies descending from the same region, denomination, or culture are described as ritual families.
[103]: 225 Historians such as Thomas Woods refer to the western Church's consistent opposition to Byzantine iconoclasm, an eastern movement against visual representations of the divine, and the western church's insistence on building structures befitting worship. Important contributions include its cultivation and patronage of individual ...
Christian worship is a unique and powerful practice in a world filled with various forms of worship and expressions of spirituality. The unique power of Christian worship: Singing for glory ...
This is felt to reflect the belief, based on Lutheran doctrine regarding justification, that the main actor in the Divine Service is God himself and not man, and that in the most important aspect of evangelical worship God is the subject and we are the objects: that the Word and Sacrament are gifts that God gives to his people in their worship.
"The exact determination of the holy times is a basic condition of communal liturgical celebration, because only the determination of the day and hour makes the union for worship possible. The establishment of holy times for worship is part of the original structure of the liturgy, and observing them is considered a primary Christian duty." [7]
Prayer and the reading of Scripture were important elements of Early Christianity. In the early Church worship was inseparable from doctrine as reflected in the statement: lex orandi, lex credendi, i.e. the law of belief is the law of prayer. [30] Early Christian liturgies highlight the importance of prayer. [31]
The event was one of Feucht’s Let Us Worship capital tour stops, which he launched in 2020 in defiance of COVID-19 public health measures. He has held Let Us Worship events each year since.