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Rev. Otis Moss Jr., senior pastor emeritus at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio – opening prayer; Rev. Sharon E. Watkins, general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) – sermon; Rev. Andy Stanley, senior pastor, North Point Community Church, Alpharetta, Georgia – prayer for civil leaders
The Church of Zion, also known as the Church of the Apostles on Mount Zion, is a presumed Jewish-Christian congregation continuing at Mount Zion in Jerusalem in the 2nd-5th century, distinct from the main Gentile congregation which had its home at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Shembe's Nazarite church was to become the largest Zionist congregation until eclipsed by the Zion Christian Church in the 1950s. Shembe's church was distinct from most other Zionist sects in that he insisted that he was a prophet sent directly from God to the Zulu nation. Most other Zionists were distinctly non-ethnic in outlook. [7]
The Rev. Jacob Duché leading the first prayer for the Second Continental Congress, Philadelphia, September 7, 1774. Prayer before the opening of a legislative body traces its origins back to the colonial period. At that time, before the Constitution and its amendments separated church and colonial assemblies would open proceedings with prayer.
In his Short history of the people called Methodists, [7] Wesley describes the first covenant service; a similar account is to be found in his Journal of the time. [8] He says the first service was held on Monday 11 August 1755, at the French church at Spitalfields in London, with 1800 people present.
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A sentence, particularly in Anglican services, is a short passage from the Bible that is recited in Christian liturgies.For example, with the Church of England's currently authorized 1662 Book of Common Prayer, sentences are used at several points within different rites: prescribed sentences are to be recited before Morning and Evening Prayers, at least one sentence may be said or sung during ...
Church of Zion may refer to: Church of Zion, Jerusalem, Roman-era church or synagogue on Mount Zion, of which 4th-century remains are visible;