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Today most mainline Presbyterian churches administer Communion by either passing the elements or by intinction. Over subsequent centuries, many Presbyterian churches modified these prescriptions by introducing hymnody, instrumental accompaniment, and ceremonial vestments into worship. However, there is not one fixed "Presbyterian" worship style.
In 1999, the Geneva Press published for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) a liturgical resource supplementing the 1993 Book of Common Worship, containing multiple services for ordination and installation, commissioning, dedications, marking transitions in congregations and governing bodies, together with additional prayers for various occasions.
The Service for the Lord's Day is the name given to the general format or ordering of worship in the Presbyterian Church as outlined in its Constitution's Book of Order. There is a great deal of liberty given toward worship in that denomination, so while the underlying order and components for the Service for the Lord's Day is extremely common ...
Presbyterian catechising in the 19th century A Scottish Sacrament, a portrait by Henry John Dobson. Presbyterian denominations that trace their heritage to the British Isles usually organise their church services inspired by the principles in the Directory of Public Worship, developed by the Westminster Assembly in the 1640s.
Classification: Protestant: Orientation: Mainline Reformed: Polity: Presbyterian polity: Associations: Plan of Union with the Congregational churches of New England (1801–1837); United Foreign and Domestic Missionary Societies (with the Reformed Church in America and the Associate Reformed Church, 1817–1826)
The National Presbyterian Church conducts several weekly worship services as well as many other teachings, caring and music services for the community. These services include biblical preaching, a full choir, hymns traditional and modern, and organ music of all periods.
[6] [8] In keeping with their view of the regulative principle, Reformed Presbyterian churches only sing Psalms during service (a practice known as exclusive psalmody), unaccompanied by instruments and to the exclusion of hymns, as they believe this is the only form of congregational singing evidenced in and therefore permitted by the Bible. [9 ...
Music plays an important role in worship and broader aspects of life at the Meeting House. Worship services feature both the Lively-Fulcher pipe organ and the choir, which includes both professional and volunteer members. Special services may also feature the Erben organ, brass ensembles, the children's choirs, or other vocal or instrumental ...