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• History of WorshipDoctrine & Theology

  The history of worship traces how the forms and content of Christian worship have changed over time, from the sacrifices and synagogue of the Old Testament and the gatherings of the early church, through the medieval Mass, the Reformation, and modern revival movements, to the present day.

• Feast of Unleavened BreadBible

  The Feast of Unleavened Bread was a seven-day festival, beginning the day after Passover, during which Israel ate bread without leaven to commemorate the Exodus. In the New Testament it is named together with Passover, and Paul uses it as an illustration of the Christian life.

• Edict of MilanHistory

  The Edict of Milan was a policy of religious toleration agreed upon and promulgated in 313 by the Roman emperors Constantine I and Licinius. It recognized freedom of religion for all faiths, including Christianity, and ordered the return of Christian property confiscated during the persecutions.

• Suspension (Church Discipline)Organization & Polity

  Suspension is a form of church discipline in which an officer such as a pastor, elder, or deacon retains the office itself but is barred from performing its duties, either for a set period or indefinitely.

• Augustine of HippoPeople

  Augustine (354–430) was bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa and one of the foremost Church Fathers of the Western church. His teaching on grace and sin profoundly influenced the Protestant Reformers.

• Deposition (Church Discipline)Organization & Polity

  Deposition is a form of church discipline in which an officer such as a minister, elder, or deacon is stripped of the office itself. It is distinct from excommunication, which also removes church membership.

• Hasmonean DynastyHistory

  The Hasmonean dynasty was a Jewish priestly dynasty that ruled Judea following the Maccabean Revolt of the second century BC. It came to an end when Herod took Jerusalem in 37 BC.

• Dominican OrderHistory

  The Dominican Order is a Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III in 1216. Its official name is the Order of Preachers (O.P.). Together with the Franciscans, it is regarded as one of the foremost mendicant orders of the Middle Ages.

• Day-Age TheoryDoctrine & Theology

  The day-age theory is an interpretation of creation that reads each "day" (Hebrew yom) of Genesis 1 not as a twenty-four-hour period but as a long age of indeterminate length. It is one of the principal forms of old-earth creationism.

• MoabBible

  Moab is the name of a people who lived on the plateau east of the Dead Sea and of the land they inhabited. The Bible presents the Moabites as descendants of Lot, and Ruth, the central figure of the Book of Ruth, was a Moabite woman.

• Qumran CommunityHistory

  The Qumran community was a Jewish sectarian group that lived at Qumran, northwest of the Dead Sea, from about the second century BC to the middle of the first century AD. Scholars commonly associate it with the Essenes. It is generally regarded as the community to which the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the surrounding caves belonged.

• Scottish ReformationHistory

  The Scottish Reformation was the mid-sixteenth-century transformation in which Scotland broke with the Roman Catholic Church and adopted a Calvinist Protestant church order. Led by John Knox, it reached its turning point with the decisions of Parliament in 1560. It is regarded today as one of the roots of worldwide Presbyterianism.

• AmmonBible

  Ammon was a people whom the Bible describes as the descendants of Ben-ammi, the son of Lot. Living east of the Jordan River, the Ammonites were a neighboring nation related to Israel by kinship, yet frequently in conflict with it.

• SeirBible

  Seir is an Old Testament place name for the mountainous region south of the Dead Sea. Because Esau and his descendants, the Edomites, lived there, Scripture often uses the name as a synonym for Edom.

• One-to-One DiscipleshipChristian Life

  One-to-one discipleship is a method of spiritual nurture in which an experienced believer is paired with another church member to study the Bible together over a set period using a prescribed curriculum, with the aim of establishing the foundations of the Christian faith.

• Special Dawn Prayer MeetingFeasts & Seasons

  A special dawn prayer meeting (teuksae) is a dawn prayer gathering that a church holds for a set period and around a chosen theme, with greater intensity than its regular dawn prayer meetings. The practice grew out of the dawn prayer tradition of Korean Protestantism.

• Online CommunionControversies

  Online Communion is the question of whether church members taking part in an online worship service may prepare the bread and cup in their own homes and partake of the Lord's Supper. The question came to be widely debated in 2020, when COVID-19 restrictions limited in-person worship.

• Discipleship Training MovementHistory

  The discipleship training movement seeks to train laypeople as disciples of Jesus Christ so that they share in the ministry of the church. In South Korea the movement spread from 1978 onward, when Oak Han-hum and SaRang Community Church brought discipleship training, previously the work of parachurch mission organizations, into the local church.

• Zechariah 4:6Bible Verses

  Zechariah 4:6, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts" (KJV), is a word addressed to Zerubbabel, who was charged with rebuilding the temple after the return from exile. It is widely used as a motto for church planting, building projects, and ministry.

• Acts 1:4–5Bible Verses

  In this passage the risen Jesus, before his ascension, tells the apostles not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father, saying that they will soon be baptized with the Holy Spirit. It is frequently cited as the starting point for the differing ways denominations understand "baptism in the Holy Spirit."