The Presbyterian Church (USA) is heir to a formal worship style based on Calvin's worship reforms and a more free worship style based on seventeenth century Puritans. This mixed heritage has allowed the Presbyterian Church (USA) in its 1989 Directory for Worship to recover many ancient sacred acts while allowing for expressions from ethnic sources. The Presbyterian Church (USA) view these sacred acts or sacraments as demonstrating to the worshiper that all time, all space, and all matter are...
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