The service of worship in the Christian Church follows the ecumenical consensus of the fourfold order. However, it breaks the Service of the Word into two parts, having one section for the proclamation of the Word and another for the response to the Word. Because the Christian Church stands in the free church tradition (a worship tradition that does not use a text or prayer book), the form of worship (which follows the same pattern of the text tradition) is set forth in an outline rather...
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