Sentences with phrase «camp meetings»
"Camp meetings" refers to religious gatherings that take place in outdoor settings, like a campground. These meetings involve people coming together to worship, pray, and listen to sermons. They are usually held over several days and can include activities such as singing hymns and participating in spiritual discussions. Full definition
, go to summer camp meetings (one of our favorite things to do) and hopefully get to take some nice walks about the neighborhood.
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Furthermore, it encouraged revival methods and employed camp meetings.
Thus camp meetings were also an important social institution in the west.
He reminds us that as innovative as megachurches may seem, their ministries, including their patterns of worship, are those pretty much in line with that of camp meetings and revivals of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Balmer's ambivalence about evangelicalism and his deep sympathy for those in its orbit who did not fully fit into it was evident in the next room, about a holiness camp meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Ministers had to be careful at camp meetings lest rowdies and others would take advantage of the emotionalism and promote immorality.
So in Montgomery we can walk and never get weary, because we know that there will be a great camp meeting in the promised land of freedom and justice.
Out of this movement grew innumerable Holiness papers, local camp meetings and associations, missions and colleges; by the turn of the century these began to coalesce into new denominations — the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) and related groups, the Church of the Nazarene, the Pilgrim Holiness Church, and so forth.
The largest of these early camp meetings was held in August, 1801, at Cane Ridge, Kentucky.
The revivals and camp meetings became the means whereby the Churches won masses of people and turned them from indifference and infidelity.
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It felt like I was a child at summer camp meeting new friends, bonding in a deep way, and then saying goodbye, wishing it wasn't over.
Coordinated activities for summer sports camp meeting programming for 80 coed campers on a daily basis.
One of their favorite practices was taken from camp meetings, namely, shaking hands while singing hymns.
At the same time, white and black Methodists began mixing at camp meetings and churches (though with some of the restraint that would later manifest as segregation, leading to the birth of the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion churches).
In the process he was introducing a new generation of evangelicals to a world of thought» and to a way of thinking» not available on the ordinary circuit of Bible conferences, summer camp meetings and youth revivals.
«My parents took us kids to a camp meeting revival, which I believe is a part of a vanishing America,» he says.
Maybe this week, it's the two - week mission trip or altar calls, church camp, revivals, camp meetings, political clubs, and «asking Jesus to come into your heart» when we were children.
Anyone who has ever attended a camp meeting knows that the «wonderworking power» is in «the blood of the Lamb.»
The ethos of Holiness churches reflects American revivalism and the spirit of the camp meeting — though attenuated, of course, over the years.
It was the beginning of the camp meeting phenomena.
Look at everything else that is a part of religion — rituals in thousands of forms and dozens of types; religious pilgrimages to Mecca, to Lourdes, or to the camp meeting in the next county; artistic symbols from Sallman's head of Christ to the rose window at Chartes Cathedral, from Muslim temples to statues of Buddha to Amish furniture.
Tension was great because two men, Rev. Messrs. McNemar and Thompson, were on trial as revivalists who, in the excitement of the camp meetings, had preached erroneous doctrines.
Balmer then reflected upon the surpassing sadness of this man approaching 70 whose echoing of the camp meeting rhetoric of «blessed assurance» made it seem so superficial in the shade of his fears that he yet was not certain of his eventual standing before God.
I first spoke in tongues at age 14, raised my hands in exuberant worship at revivals and camp meetings, witnessed to my friends at school and tried to convince Christian friends that they needed the «sign gift» of speaking in tongues to be fully Spirit - filled.
Revivalism was Nevin's nemesis, the antithesis of his churchly form of Protestantism, and even the most conservative among Presbyterians were, in their liturgical and ecclesiastical instincts, more heirs of revivalism's camp meetings than of Calvin's Geneva.
Soon there developed what were called «camp meetings.»
To be sure, under the great emotional stimulus of the camp meeting one might be able to break through the past and to decide for God.
The camp meeting was not only of religious significance, it also played another role in the frontier.
The camp meeting, born of the necessities of the frontier, soon grew to be a regular part of the frontier life.
The camp meeting was a new way to preach the gospel.
Everywhere in the west the camp meetings were being developed and used.
In place of the earlier haphazard, unplanned meetings, the camp meeting arose controlled by the ministry and used as an instrument to further the Lord's work.
Both the players and representatives from their camps met on the court before the scheduled start, but the postponement announcement followed shortly.
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This camp meets June 18 - 22, 2018 from 9:00 am - noon each day, with a performance the last night of the camp.
But, the truth is my career offers me the flexibility I need to take a long lunch to do the puppet show, or attend a camp meeting.»