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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
The Dismissal (Greek: απόλυσις; Slavonic: otpust) is the final blessing said by a Christian priest or minister at the end of a religious service. In liturgical churches the dismissal will often take the form of ritualized words and gestures, such as raising the minister's hands over the congregation, or blessing with the sign of the cross.
This is a glossary of terms used within the Catholic Church.Some terms used in everyday English have a different meaning in the context of the Catholic faith, including brother, confession, confirmation, exemption, faithful, father, ordinary, religious, sister, venerable, and vow.
At that meeting, The Book of Discipline was amended to give congregations a window to leave the denomination after a two-thirds vote of its members while still retaining church property and assets ...
Mennonite conference in 1947. A revival meeting usually consists of several consecutive nights of services conducted at the same time and location, most often the building belonging to the sponsoring congregation but sometimes a rented assembly hall, for more adequate space, to provide a setting that is more comfortable for non-Christians, or to reach a community where there are no churches.
Saddleback Church and Disneyland, he would note, attract the most visitors to Orange County at any one time. The author of "A Purpose Driven Life," Warren became a leading Christian figure in the ...
The moderator presides over the meeting of the court, much as a convener presides over the meeting of a church committee. The moderator is thus the chairperson, and is understood to be a member of the court acting primus inter pares. The moderator calls and constitutes meetings, presides at them, and closes them in prayer.
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