Hyung Goo died about six months later, and that
prayer service came to seem like the inaugural event of that final trajectory the point at which all these people came together to see us through to the end.
Not exact matches
My biggest cultural shock
came when Kirk and I returned to Ankaase for a
prayer service.
This is why people don't
come to Sunday night
services and Wednesday evening
prayer meeting and Bible studies.
After the
service is over there will be an opportunity for people to
come into the cathedral to say a
prayer and light a candle.»
Then, we can
come together as Christians for times of celebration,
prayer, and teaching, but we probably shouldn't call such times «
service.»
Oh, they may let you off the hook long enough to pray the
prayer of salvation, but as soon as that's done it's back to «
Come to us, all who are weary and heavy - laden, so that you can be our bond - servants with your tithes and volunteer
service.
I was grateful they
came, but I knew, deep down in my heart, that if they were really devoted to following Jesus, they would also
come to Sunday school, the Sunday evening
service, the Wednesday evening Bible study, and the Saturday morning
prayer meeting.
«It's tough times,» said Father Bill Quinlivan, who
came up with the idea to collect resumes and pray for them at a recent
prayer service, told CNN Buffalo affiliate WGRZ.
There is usually a point in the Vineyard
service where an epicletic
prayer goes forth with the words «
Come Holy Spirit,» which makes an important connection with the calling down of the Spirit upon the elements in the Catholic Mass or other liturgical settings.
Of course, Christians can
come together for Bible study,
prayer, etc.; however, such circumstances are not exactly
service in relation to God.
Lesser priests such as Zechariah, the husband of Elizabeth, were part of a highly organised structure in the hierarchy and took their turn in the «
service rotas» supplying the needs of the sanctuary and those who
came to offer
prayers and sacrifices.
Luther's German Mass and Order of
Service was published in 1526; Calvin's Form of
Prayers came out in 1542.
«Whether it's a Catholic child seeing the communion bread and wine, a Jewish child hearing the Hebrew
prayers, or a Hindu child smelling the incense in the temple, by experiencing rituals kids
come to appreciate the predictability of a religious
service, if not the deeper meaning.»
It
came as no surprise, that in the wake of the recent killing of Inspector Emmanuel Ashlevi while on duty by armed robbers who invaded the police station at Dome, a suburb in the Greater Accra Region, to free their colleagues who were held by the station awaiting trial, the religious unit of the Ghana Police
Service has taken to the organization of
prayer sessions for divine intervention.