Before becoming Presbyterian, I was a Oneness Pentecostal. Here’s the order of worship (completely unbiased perspective): - Sing an upbeat song. If at any time the Spirit “begins to move”, abandon all other plans including the preaching of the word - Announcements - More upbeat songs to try to get the Spirit moving - Sermon (scripture optional), yell a lot in “tongues” to try to get the Spirit moving. Deny the Trinity at least once; bonus points for any other heresy you can sneak in. - Somber Song + Altar call - No formal dismissal. People leave when they feel prayed out. Sunday morning altar call was a bit shorter to beat the lunch crowd, but these would last for like 3-4 hours on Sunday evenings.
Great video, I was just wondering/lamenting about how my church (Free Church of Scotland) only hold communion services every 2 months. I agree with Calvin and Luther in that we should do it every Sunday. It appears to me that this is what the early church did. Our services tend to follow this order: Call to worship Psalm/Hymn Prayer Reading (short) Psalm/hymn Prayer - Confession of Sin & Intercessions Psalm/hymn Reading (that the sermon will be based on) Sermon Psalm/hymn Benediction
Thanks for this, always good to hear about how the rich history of the church informs our life and doctrine. Our services follow this order; invocation (always form the Psalms) prayer worship (2 songs) reading of the law, pastoral prayer offering worship (2 songs) reading of the sermon scripture elder prays over preaching pastor sermon response in worship (1 song) mission/missionary update & prayer benediction we participate in the Lord's Supper on the first Sunday of every month
Very, very interesting and informative! Thank you for compiling and presenting this. "Concert and a TED Talk" - Man does that so accurately describe what a lot of churches are doing today... unfortunately.
For our new members class I actually walk through our liturgy and teach the theology of the church in connection to our worship. That way we can see what we believe every time we worship on the Lord's Day.
Member of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. This is what our services look like Call to Worship (From scripture, normally the Psalms) Hymn (Sometimes a Psalm) Prayer of Adoration and Confession (sometimes concluding with Lord’s Prayer) Bible Reading Children’s Address Hymn (Normally a Children’s hymn) Prayer of Intercession Bible Reading Hymn Sermon Prayer Hymn Benediction Very obviously influenced by Knox and the Church of Scotland at large
I recently attened the worship services at an Old Apostolic Lutheran church and the litugry was very interesting and very different then any other Lutheran church I had visited. I think some people might think it was a conservative anabaptist church if they did not have any baptisms. occuring at the time.
Pastor, I attend a reformed baptist church, which I love dearly, but I am westminsterian in my views. Would you ever be willing to post a video of your church’s entire worship service from beginning to end? I am very interested in seeing a conservative Presbyterian worship service and how it flows. Thanks!
Differing liturgies but being such an old conservative denomination with roots back to the Covenanters, many still hold pretty closely with a Knox or Calvin liturgy.
At my church we begin with singing then break for church announcements then two more songs, then a reading of Scripture, followed by a fourth song. Then an elder reads the text for the service and leads the church in a prayer. Then we have the sermon followed by a prayer. On weeks we celebrate the Lord’s supper, we then do reading from 1 Corinthians 11, followed by a warning, then the elements are passed and we sing a song. We then take the elements together, sing a final song, then our pastor gives a benediction
Hey Pastor Matthew, can you please make a video about how you would give an invitation after a gospel presentation. I am serving at a church that may be getting too close to easy-believism, but I as a preacher in that church don't know exactly how I could do better. Anything helps thanks!
Great video Pastor. I attend a PCA church and this is the outline of service: Reflection, Call To Worship, Prayer of Adoration, Hymns of Adoration, Confession of Sin, Silent Confession of Sin, Hymn of God's Mercy, Confession of Faith(1-2 questions of WCF/Heidelberg/Belgic), Old Testament Reading, Offerings, Doxology, Pastoral Prayer, Sermon, Hymn of Response and finally Benediction. I am not an expert but it seems like a hodge podge lol
Yeah, I'm happy to go a PCA church, I enjoy the large volume of Scripture reading in the worship service, the only downside is that my church from MN that is part of the EFCA denomination actually did my funeral song several times a year, aka A Mighty Fortress is Our God but my church in GA haven't played A Mighty Fortress is Our God yet.
My Church follow a similiar line of liturgy Call to Worship (typically from a Psalm or Epistle) Hymn (two to three) Prayer of Thanksgiving Lord's Prayer Hymn Scripture reading (typically OT) Prayer of Adoration Creed Scripture reading and Confession Hymn (Children leave for Sunday School) Sermon Hymn (usually 2) Benediction We have the Lord's Supper every other week on an evening service. Its shorter and mainly revolve around praying for different things, short sermon and the Eucharist. The Pastor typically reads out the words of institution and then elements are passed around in silence. Its interesting how close it is to these fellas worship, personally I would like to have the Lord's Supper every service but generally a nice liturgy.
I am a Pentecostal pastor. We start with a call to worship that usually contains scripture reading. Followed by singing, a mixture of contemporary and hymns. We do communion once a month. It follows after worship with a time of confession, reading from a Gospel and blessing the elements. Next would be Preaching most often Expository. Followed by the Benedition. Depending on the service, we have an altar call - a time to be prayed for by an Elder either after the singing or preaching. In the past we often recited the Apostles Creed. Probably need to work that back in
Fellow Reformed Pentecostal 👋🏼 I think most people don’t understand that one can be Pentecostal and liturgical. Sadly even among the brethren, there is a tendency to shun those who don’t “worship the right way”.
I want a Reformed Baptist Church, unfortunately I live in a place where there are none. All I have is a non-Denominational Church. Our order of worship (if you can call it that) looks like this: - some thought from the pastor on some text of Scripture at the beginning. - prayer - worship songs (all contemporary) - Corporate reading of a Psalm - prayer before the sermon - Reading of the Scripture passage - sermon - prayer and reflection before the Lord's Supper - Lord's Supper with reading from 1 Corinthians 11 - final worship song (contemporary) - prayer - Announcements - small groups for 'fellowship'
Thanks Matt. for this “ intro” to my reading of Ecclesiology by Louis Berkhof. Not to change the subject, but maybe you can do a video on home church as I am hearing more about this. Blessings in Christ.
This is our liturgy Call to Worship: Hymn of Ascent: Invocation: Psalm Reading: Hymn of Praise: Confession of Faith: Confession of Sin: Moment of Silent Confession Assurance of Pardon: Gloria Patri Response of Praise: Pastoral Prayer & Lord’s Prayer Offering Offertory & Song of Preparation: Doxology Children’s Sermon Scripture Reading Sermon The Lord’s Supper Hymn for the Lord’s Supper: Closing hymn: Benediction
I’m from Wisconsin. The Catholic and Lutheran services are identical. This is for the old LCA and American Lutherans. They merged in the mid 70s and are now the ELCA Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We also have Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. And also the Missouri Synod Lutherans. In the 2000s, the ELCA voted to have gay priests. Some Lutherans said Not Happening and broke off. They formed the North American Lutheran Church. All these Lutheran churches have identical liturgies to the Catholic Church. In the 60s and 70s, charismatic and Ecumenical groups were popular. My opinion is that Lutherans changed the liturgy to become One World Religion. They used to have the Nunc Dominus and The Magnificat in the liturgy, but no more. The services are vastly different from what they were in 1965 when I was a kid. The worship order is similar to John Calvin’s. I asked a Lutheran pastor why it changed. He told me it was to become more like Luther’s service, but I’m suspicious of the Ecumenical movement at the same time. You are right. In the 1960s, there were no microphones and sound systems. Pastors practiced throwing their voices in seminary so all could hear. The high ceilings on the old churches are designed for amplification. It’s not for music but for the hearing of the Word. We parochial school kids were told to speak loudly so even the mom in the back row with the crying baby could hear us. Hope this isn’t too long and boring.
Thanks for the interesting video! How do these compare to how the 1st-century church worshiped? I feel like too often people view Catholicism as the "root" of Christianity when it more accurately started with Jesus and the apostles who remained after His ascension.
I have a copy of the Reformation Worship: Liturgies from the Past for the Present. I church does focus Scripture Memorization but also incorporated Bible reading before the preaching.
Question ... why is the PCA different than other Presbyterian Churches in our area in Southern Ontario. I have been moved by your discussions with a strong reformed emphasis on the Grace of Christ based on his death burial and resurrection and I wish we could find a church with the same doctrinal approach in our area in Canada. Comments Mat?
My church's service is going to look a lot like Luther's here. Only difference after the first hymn/psalm sung we have confession and absolution. And then before the Gospel reading we have an OT reading and an Epistle reading.
Very interesting video. So basically there's not much differences in worship style from today. Here in this place, the ‘Presbyterian Church’ was formerly known as ‘Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church’ Sometimes it's so confusing to understand how ‘different committees’ work, how many are there etc. 😅 If possible Can you do a video on these? - Presbyterian Church Structure - its constitution - Different Committees and branches - Different Congregations - Synods - Presbyteries etc. Thanks😢
Calvin and Knox would not have had instrumental accompaniment to singing. As I understand it, reformed singing tended to be a cappella (from the chapel).
I wish I could find a church that did this, but then again with my poor health I would be crying at the end because of all the pain I would be in. I miss going to church and wish I could have a good church to go to, I want a church that would have the word of Yahweh, have the apostles creed. Have the older style worship. I don’t like the styles of churches that are to afraid to actually speak Yahweh words the way they should be spoken.
@ThethomasJefferson Want you to know I will pray for you and your circumstances you find yourself in. I find great comfort in the knowledge that God the Holy Spirit is working in us in the good times and the difficult ones as well. 🙏 Want to give you some great churches channels that although they aren’t face to face fellowship they post their whole service online so you can sing and listen to the sermons as well. Kootenai Community Church(Pastor Jim Osman) reformed baptist. Risen Savior Lutheran Church (WELS Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) their longtime pastor Yanke left in June but still good church). Some other good churches with just sermons are: Kongsvinger Lutheran Church (Pastor Chris Rosebrough). Smyrna Presbyterian Church (PCA). Valley Pres North Hills (PCA) Pastor Ron Swenson. The Proverbial Life (Pastor Edwin Ramirez) lots of other content but sermons are there too. The Truth Seekers with Randy McPhoy (Pastor Randy) other content but sermons are there too. Hope you give them a watch and are blessed by them. 2 Cor 2-9 😊
I was surprised to see a lack of corporate confession and absolution in the Lutheran liturgy. I wonder if private confession and absolution were still robust enough in the Lutheran church at that time to cause it to seem unnecessary in corporate worship.
I can't remember if it was ever different before. I know at least now probably all that I know of have a corporate confession and absolution. Private confession still exists but it's more of an as needed basis typically at the very least it's different than the Roman view.
Our liturgy at a congregational church -Word- Welcome & Announcements Votum Hymn Opening Prayer Gloria Patri Call to confession General Confession (unison) Assurance of pardon Passing of the Peace Metrical Psalm Prayer of Illumination Scripture readings Sermon Creed Hymn Prayers of the People Lord's prayer (if no communion) Offertory Prayer *Communion (monthly) Blessing Doxology -Table- Invitation with words of institution Fencing of the table Great Prayer of thanksgiving (w/ unison spoken sanctus and memorial acclamation) Consecration Lord's prayer Distribution Prayer after communion (unison)
Very interesting and informative, but I have never heard "Kyrie" pronounced that way before. It actually has 3 syllables, and it is pronounced /ˈkirēˌā/.
First Congregational Church of Swanzey NH Gathering Music Invocation/ Sursum Corda Passing of the Peace Welcome and Announcements Ringing of the Bell *Pilgrim Hymn Call to Worship, Responsively Call To Invocation Prayer of Invocation, Unison Call To Confession Prayer of Confession, Unison Assurance Of Pardon *Hymn “Gloria Patri” Music Ministry Scripture Lesson (Lectionary) Sermon Prayers of the People Joys and Concerns Prayer of the People Lord’s Prayer Offering *Hymn #46 “Doxology” Prayer of Dedication Hymn *Commissioning & Benediction Postlude
Not an experienced church-goer but I used to go to an Assembly of God church, claimed to be "non-denominational" (I don't know anything about religion) and I couldn't stand the constant singing. A "band" and have everyone stand and that's practically all they did the entire time with maybe 15-20 minutes of a pastor talking somewhere in-between then it was time to go home. I can't stand it, so I quit going. Absolutely awful. Absolutely disgusting feeling and it turned me off from religion completely. Too early in the morning for that loud shit.
It’s nice how the Reformed order of worship doesn’t pin everything on the preacher. There’s so much scripture, prayer, and gospel proclamation embedded in it that any service can survive a clunker sermon.
“Concert and a TED Talk” - Well said! 🤯
Saddest, but almost most accurate, summation of American churches…😢
Before becoming Presbyterian, I was a Oneness Pentecostal. Here’s the order of worship (completely unbiased perspective):
- Sing an upbeat song. If at any time the Spirit “begins to move”, abandon all other plans including the preaching of the word
- Announcements
- More upbeat songs to try to get the Spirit moving
- Sermon (scripture optional), yell a lot in “tongues” to try to get the Spirit moving. Deny the Trinity at least once; bonus points for any other heresy you can sneak in.
- Somber Song + Altar call
- No formal dismissal. People leave when they feel prayed out.
Sunday morning altar call was a bit shorter to beat the lunch crowd, but these would last for like 3-4 hours on Sunday evenings.
“…bonus points for any other heresy that you can sneak in.”
Kind of gives away your unbiased perspective😂
This comment is funny 😂😂”People leave when they are prayed out”
I attend a traditional Anglican service in Sydney Australia and our worship is very similar to Calvin's
Reformed Baptist here. Love the shirt! ;)
Great video, I was just wondering/lamenting about how my church (Free Church of Scotland) only hold communion services every 2 months. I agree with Calvin and Luther in that we should do it every Sunday. It appears to me that this is what the early church did.
Our services tend to follow this order:
Call to worship
Psalm/Hymn
Prayer
Reading (short)
Psalm/hymn
Prayer - Confession of Sin & Intercessions
Psalm/hymn
Reading (that the sermon will be based on)
Sermon
Psalm/hymn
Benediction
appreciate this very much thanks
Thanks for this, always good to hear about how the rich history of the church informs our life and doctrine.
Our services follow this order;
invocation (always form the Psalms)
prayer
worship (2 songs)
reading of the law,
pastoral prayer
offering
worship (2 songs)
reading of the sermon scripture
elder prays over preaching pastor
sermon
response in worship (1 song)
mission/missionary update & prayer
benediction
we participate in the Lord's Supper on the first Sunday of every month
The PCA church that I attend here in Fort Worth, TX. has a very similar structure as Calvin's order of worship. I thoroughly enjoy it.
Very, very interesting and informative! Thank you for compiling and presenting this.
"Concert and a TED Talk" - Man does that so accurately describe what a lot of churches are doing today... unfortunately.
For our new members class I actually walk through our liturgy and teach the theology of the church in connection to our worship. That way we can see what we believe every time we worship on the Lord's Day.
Member of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. This is what our services look like
Call to Worship (From scripture, normally the Psalms)
Hymn (Sometimes a Psalm)
Prayer of Adoration and Confession (sometimes concluding with Lord’s Prayer)
Bible Reading
Children’s Address
Hymn (Normally a Children’s hymn)
Prayer of Intercession
Bible Reading
Hymn
Sermon
Prayer
Hymn
Benediction
Very obviously influenced by Knox and the Church of Scotland at large
I recently attened the worship services at an Old Apostolic Lutheran church and the litugry was very interesting and very different then any other Lutheran church I had visited. I think some people might think it was a conservative anabaptist church if they did not have any baptisms. occuring at the time.
Another great video Pastor Matt!
Good Morning I appreciate all your posts
Loved this video brother! 🙏🏽
Good evening from the Great South Land of the Holy Spirit!
Pastor, I attend a reformed baptist church, which I love dearly, but I am westminsterian in my views. Would you ever be willing to post a video of your church’s entire worship service from beginning to end? I am very interested in seeing a conservative Presbyterian worship service and how it flows. Thanks!
Many ARP churches here in the South (Associate Reformed Presbyterian) have theirs online.
Differing liturgies but being such an old conservative denomination with roots back to the Covenanters, many still hold pretty closely with a Knox or Calvin liturgy.
At my church we begin with singing then break for church announcements then two more songs, then a reading of Scripture, followed by a fourth song. Then an elder reads the text for the service and leads the church in a prayer. Then we have the sermon followed by a prayer. On weeks we celebrate the Lord’s supper, we then do reading from 1 Corinthians 11, followed by a warning, then the elements are passed and we sing a song. We then take the elements together, sing a final song, then our pastor gives a benediction
Hey Pastor Matthew, can you please make a video about how you would give an invitation after a gospel presentation. I am serving at a church that may be getting too close to easy-believism, but I as a preacher in that church don't know exactly how I could do better. Anything helps thanks!
Great video Pastor. I attend a PCA church and this is the outline of service: Reflection, Call To Worship, Prayer of Adoration, Hymns of Adoration, Confession of Sin, Silent Confession of Sin, Hymn of God's Mercy, Confession of Faith(1-2 questions of WCF/Heidelberg/Belgic), Old Testament Reading, Offerings, Doxology, Pastoral Prayer, Sermon, Hymn of Response and finally Benediction.
I am not an expert but it seems like a hodge podge lol
We open with silent prayer and then on our knees for confession and absolution. Our bulletin still has a lot of Latin! - Lutheran
Great summary!
One note of correction:
Kyrie- keer-ee-aa
Yeah, I'm happy to go a PCA church, I enjoy the large volume of Scripture reading in the worship service, the only downside is that my church from MN that is part of the EFCA denomination actually did my funeral song several times a year, aka A Mighty Fortress is Our God but my church in GA haven't played A Mighty Fortress is Our God yet.
My Church follow a similiar line of liturgy
Call to Worship (typically from a Psalm or Epistle)
Hymn (two to three)
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Lord's Prayer
Hymn
Scripture reading (typically OT)
Prayer of Adoration
Creed
Scripture reading and Confession
Hymn (Children leave for Sunday School)
Sermon
Hymn (usually 2)
Benediction
We have the Lord's Supper every other week on an evening service. Its shorter and mainly revolve around praying for different things, short sermon and the Eucharist. The Pastor typically reads out the words of institution and then elements are passed around in silence. Its interesting how close it is to these fellas worship, personally I would like to have the Lord's Supper every service but generally a nice liturgy.
I am a Pentecostal pastor. We start with a call to worship that usually contains scripture reading. Followed by singing, a mixture of contemporary and hymns. We do communion once a month. It follows after worship with a time of confession, reading from a Gospel and blessing the elements. Next would be Preaching most often Expository. Followed by the Benedition. Depending on the service, we have an altar call - a time to be prayed for by an Elder either after the singing or preaching. In the past we often recited the Apostles Creed. Probably need to work that back in
Fellow Reformed Pentecostal 👋🏼
I think most people don’t understand that one can be Pentecostal and liturgical. Sadly even among the brethren, there is a tendency to shun those who don’t “worship the right way”.
@@davidhiramreyes6490 Yep, we may be a small number but not alone
I want a Reformed Baptist Church, unfortunately I live in a place where there are none.
All I have is a non-Denominational Church. Our order of worship (if you can call it that) looks like this:
- some thought from the pastor on some text of Scripture at the beginning.
- prayer
- worship songs (all contemporary)
- Corporate reading of a Psalm
- prayer before the sermon
- Reading of the Scripture passage
- sermon
- prayer and reflection before the Lord's Supper
- Lord's Supper with reading from 1 Corinthians 11
- final worship song (contemporary)
- prayer
- Announcements
- small groups for 'fellowship'
This is good. It reminds me of "Ready to Harvest" on youtube.
Thanks Matt. for this “ intro” to my reading of Ecclesiology by Louis Berkhof. Not to change the subject, but maybe you can do a video on home church as I am hearing more about this. Blessings in Christ.
This is our liturgy
Call to Worship:
Hymn of Ascent:
Invocation:
Psalm Reading:
Hymn of Praise:
Confession of Faith:
Confession of Sin:
Moment of Silent Confession
Assurance of Pardon:
Gloria Patri
Response of Praise:
Pastoral Prayer & Lord’s Prayer
Offering
Offertory & Song of Preparation:
Doxology
Children’s Sermon
Scripture Reading
Sermon
The Lord’s Supper
Hymn for the Lord’s Supper:
Closing hymn:
Benediction
I’m from Wisconsin. The Catholic and Lutheran services are identical. This is for the old LCA and American Lutherans. They merged in the mid 70s and are now the ELCA Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We also have Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. And also the Missouri Synod Lutherans. In the 2000s, the ELCA voted to have gay priests. Some Lutherans said Not Happening and broke off. They formed the North American Lutheran Church. All these Lutheran churches have identical liturgies to the Catholic Church. In the 60s and 70s, charismatic and Ecumenical groups were popular. My opinion is that Lutherans changed the liturgy to become One World Religion. They used to have the Nunc Dominus and The Magnificat in the liturgy, but no more. The services are vastly different from what they were in 1965 when I was a kid. The worship order is similar to John Calvin’s. I asked a Lutheran pastor why it changed. He told me it was to become more like Luther’s service, but I’m suspicious of the Ecumenical movement at the same time. You are right. In the 1960s, there were no microphones and sound systems. Pastors practiced throwing their voices in seminary so all could hear. The high ceilings on the old churches are designed for amplification. It’s not for music but for the hearing of the Word. We parochial school kids were told to speak loudly so even the mom in the back row with the crying baby could hear us. Hope this isn’t too long and boring.
Good Morning
Thanks for the interesting video!
How do these compare to how the 1st-century church worshiped? I feel like too often people view Catholicism as the "root" of Christianity when it more accurately started with Jesus and the apostles who remained after His ascension.
I have a copy of the Reformation Worship: Liturgies from the Past for the Present. I church does focus Scripture Memorization but also incorporated Bible reading before the preaching.
The Anglican church I started attending has a liturgy that looks a lot like calvins
Maybe a bit of research into Karlstadt's views on worship might reveal interesting things.
Interesting stuff!!
Question ... why is the PCA different than other Presbyterian Churches in our area in Southern Ontario. I have been moved by your discussions with a strong reformed emphasis on the Grace of Christ based on his death burial and resurrection and I wish we could find a church with the same doctrinal approach in our area in Canada. Comments Mat?
My church's service is going to look a lot like Luther's here. Only difference after the first hymn/psalm sung we have confession and absolution. And then before the Gospel reading we have an OT reading and an Epistle reading.
Very interesting video. So basically there's not much differences in worship style from today.
Here in this place, the ‘Presbyterian Church’ was formerly known as ‘Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church’
Sometimes it's so confusing to understand how ‘different committees’ work, how many are there etc. 😅
If possible Can you do a video on these?
- Presbyterian Church Structure
- its constitution
- Different Committees and branches
- Different Congregations
- Synods
- Presbyteries
etc.
Thanks😢
If you don't mind me asking, how does the confession and forgiveness portion fit into the worship service? I haven't heard of this in worship before.
Calvin and Knox would not have had instrumental accompaniment to singing. As I understand it, reformed singing tended to be a cappella (from the chapel).
I wish I could find a church that did this, but then again with my poor health I would be crying at the end because of all the pain I would be in.
I miss going to church and wish I could have a good church to go to, I want a church that would have the word of Yahweh, have the apostles creed. Have the older style worship.
I don’t like the styles of churches that are to afraid to actually speak Yahweh words the way they should be spoken.
@ThethomasJefferson
Want you to know I will pray for you and your circumstances you find yourself in. I find great comfort in the knowledge that God the Holy Spirit is working in us in the good times and the difficult ones as well. 🙏
Want to give you some great churches channels that although they aren’t face to face fellowship they post their whole service online so you can sing and listen to the sermons as well.
Kootenai Community Church(Pastor Jim Osman) reformed baptist.
Risen Savior Lutheran Church (WELS Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) their longtime pastor Yanke left in June but still good church).
Some other good churches with just sermons are:
Kongsvinger Lutheran Church (Pastor Chris Rosebrough).
Smyrna Presbyterian Church (PCA).
Valley Pres North Hills (PCA) Pastor Ron Swenson.
The Proverbial Life (Pastor Edwin Ramirez) lots of other content but sermons are there too.
The Truth Seekers with Randy McPhoy (Pastor Randy) other content but sermons are there too.
Hope you give them a watch and are blessed by them. 2 Cor 2-9 😊
I was surprised to see a lack of corporate confession and absolution in the Lutheran liturgy. I wonder if private confession and absolution were still robust enough in the Lutheran church at that time to cause it to seem unnecessary in corporate worship.
I can't remember if it was ever different before. I know at least now probably all that I know of have a corporate confession and absolution. Private confession still exists but it's more of an as needed basis typically at the very least it's different than the Roman view.
I can describe our service simply by way of denomination, Presbyterian ARP
Our liturgy at a congregational church
-Word-
Welcome & Announcements
Votum
Hymn
Opening Prayer
Gloria Patri
Call to confession
General Confession (unison)
Assurance of pardon
Passing of the Peace
Metrical Psalm
Prayer of Illumination
Scripture readings
Sermon
Creed
Hymn
Prayers of the People
Lord's prayer (if no communion)
Offertory Prayer
*Communion (monthly)
Blessing
Doxology
-Table-
Invitation with words of institution
Fencing of the table
Great Prayer of thanksgiving (w/ unison spoken sanctus and memorial acclamation)
Consecration
Lord's prayer
Distribution
Prayer after communion (unison)
Concert and Ted talk! 😂
Very interesting and informative, but I have never heard "Kyrie" pronounced that way before. It actually has 3 syllables, and it is pronounced /ˈkirēˌā/.
Ha ha you are totally right I messed up big time!
Fog machines back then were much more primative but they did the best they could.
First Congregational Church of Swanzey NH
Gathering Music
Invocation/ Sursum Corda
Passing of the Peace
Welcome and Announcements
Ringing of the Bell
*Pilgrim Hymn
Call to Worship, Responsively
Call To Invocation
Prayer of Invocation, Unison
Call To Confession
Prayer of Confession, Unison
Assurance Of Pardon
*Hymn “Gloria Patri”
Music Ministry
Scripture Lesson (Lectionary)
Sermon
Prayers of the People
Joys and Concerns
Prayer of the People
Lord’s Prayer
Offering
*Hymn #46 “Doxology”
Prayer of Dedication
Hymn
*Commissioning & Benediction
Postlude
Not an experienced church-goer but I used to go to an Assembly of God church, claimed to be "non-denominational" (I don't know anything about religion) and I couldn't stand the constant singing. A "band" and have everyone stand and that's practically all they did the entire time with maybe 15-20 minutes of a pastor talking somewhere in-between then it was time to go home. I can't stand it, so I quit going. Absolutely awful. Absolutely disgusting feeling and it turned me off from religion completely. Too early in the morning for that loud shit.
The Pope assembled the Bible 💫
You're joking, right?
@@jimmu2008 , no, it's called reality, you are in the prot matrix.
@@Kefa...well then, the joke's on you. No one person or one bishop or one episcopal see assembled the Bible.
@@jimmu2008 , through the Popes authority, it was made, stop laughing.
@@Kefa... where are you getting that idea?
We don’t want a concert
It’s nice how the Reformed order of worship doesn’t pin everything on the preacher. There’s so much scripture, prayer, and gospel proclamation embedded in it that any service can survive a clunker sermon.