An Adventist Model Of Worship

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

Early Adventist worship was simple, informal, and vigorously nonliturgical. When the first church Manual was adopted, reluctantly, in 1883, it made no mention how regular worship services should be conducted. It did, however, lay down some guidelines for the "ordinances of the Lord's house," meaning the Lord's Supper and the accompanying foot-washing service. Indeed, the earliest mention of an order of service for Adventist churches appears to be in a book published in 1906 by a prominent...

 

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