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• Cornerstone Laying CeremonyWorship & Rites

  A cornerstone laying ceremony is a service held during the construction of a new sanctuary or church building, in which the cornerstone, or foundation stone, is set upon the foundation and the building work is committed to God.

• Church ConstructionControversies

  The church construction debate concerns whether it is right for a church to build or expand its sanctuary, particularly with borrowed money. Views divide between those who emphasize the importance of space and devotion and those who prioritize people and financial soundness.

• Building Fund OfferingChristian Life

  A building fund offering is an offering collected separately from general offerings to pay for constructing, purchasing, or renovating church buildings such as sanctuaries and education buildings.

• Church CaféChristian Life

  A church café is a coffee shop that a church operates inside its sanctuary building or an auxiliary building. Its main purposes are to foster fellowship among members and to provide a place of contact with local residents.

• BaptisteryDoctrine & Theology

  A baptistery is a water tank or pool installed in a sanctuary or an adjoining church space for administering baptism by immersing the whole body in water. It is also called a baptismal pool.

• Herod's TempleBible

  Herod's Temple is the Second Temple in Jerusalem as extensively renovated and expanded by Herod the Great beginning in the late first century BC. It is the "temple" of the New Testament, frequented by Jesus and the early church, and it was destroyed by the Roman army in AD 70.

• Exodus 25:2Bible Verses

  Exodus 25:2 is the verse in which God, through Moses, asks Israel for offerings to build the tabernacle and directs that offerings be received only from those who give willingly from the heart. It is frequently cited as a basis for the principle that giving should be voluntary, especially in building-fund appeals and church dedication sermons.

• PulpitWorship & Rites

  A pulpit is a platform at the front of a church sanctuary, raised above the congregational seating, where the preacher stands to preach and lead worship. The term can also refer to the preaching stand placed on that platform or to the ministry of preaching itself.

• Particular ChurchOrganization & Polity

  A particular church is an individual local church that belongs to the whole church throughout the world, the universal church. The term is used chiefly in Presbyterian church constitutions. In Korean Protestant usage, the corresponding term can also refer to a branch congregation that a megachurch establishes in another area.

• Church BulletinWorship & Rites

  A church bulletin is a newsletter that a church publishes every Lord's Day, containing the order of worship, sermon information, church news, and announcements.

• Investigative JudgmentDoctrine & Theology

  The investigative judgment is a doctrine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church teaching that since 1844 Christ has been conducting a judgment in the heavenly sanctuary, examining the records of believers before His Second Coming.

• Holy PlaceBible

  The holy place, or sanctuary, is a sacred place set apart for God. In its narrower sense, it refers to the outer room of the tabernacle and the temple, located in front of the Most Holy Place, where the lampstand, the table of showbread, and the altar of incense stood.

• ShekelBible

  The shekel was a unit of weight used in ancient Israel and also a unit of value reckoned by that weight of silver. It later became the name of a silver coin. The shekel appears frequently in the Bible, notably in the half-shekel temple tax and the thirty pieces of silver.

• Temple VeilBible

  The temple veil was the curtain that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place in the tabernacle and the Jerusalem temple. Only the high priest could pass behind it, and only once a year. The Gospels record that the veil was torn when Jesus died.

• Holy of HoliesBible

  The Holy of Holies, or Most Holy Place, was the innermost chamber of the tabernacle and of the Temple in Jerusalem. The ark of the covenant was kept there, and only the high priest could enter it, once a year on the Day of Atonement.

• Amaziah (Priest of Bethel)People

  Amaziah was the priest of the sanctuary at Bethel in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of Jeroboam II. In Amos 7 he accuses the prophet Amos before the king and tries to drive him out of Bethel, and in turn he receives a word of judgment.

• Leviticus 24Bible

  Leviticus 24 contains regulations for the sanctuary lamps and for the bread set out every Sabbath (the showbread), followed by the execution of a man who blasphemed the name of the LORD and the law of retaliation expressed as "eye for eye, tooth for tooth."

• EliPeople

  Eli was an Israelite priest who served at the sanctuary in Shiloh at the close of the period of the judges. He raised the boy Samuel but failed to restrain the wickedness of his two sons, and his house came under judgment. His story is told in 1 Samuel 1–4.

• Hebrews 8Bible

  Hebrews 8 presents Jesus as the high priest who ministers in the heavenly sanctuary and as the mediator of a better covenant, and it quotes the new covenant prophecy to declare that the first covenant has been made old.