This ancient form of prayer was revised at the 16th Century Protestant Reformation. Over 80% is direct citation from Scripture. The rest is derived from Scripture. We worship God according to His Pure Word.
We aim to worship in biblical simplicity and reverence, to live in sincere Christian love, and to be zealous witnesses for truth and righteousness.
"[In the Book of Common Prayer] nothing is ordained to be read, but the very pure Word of God, the holy Scriptures, or that which is agreeable to the same."
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Ancient Prayers. Psalm Singing. Bible Reading. Confession, Praise, and Thanksgiving.
For Congregational and Family Worship.
"For evangelical sentiment, fervor of devotion, and majestic simplicity of language, Morning and Evening Prayer are entitled to the highest praise."
- Charles Hodge
Imprecations for All Sorts and Conditions of Men.
Said on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.
"As to the Litany, which is at least a thousand years old, and no more belongs to the Church of England than the Creed does, we know no human composition that can be compared with it."
- Charles Hodge.
BAPTISM is not only a sign of profession and mark of difference whereby Christian men are discerned from other that be not christened, but is also a sign of regeneration or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God, by the Holy Ghost are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed, and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God.
The baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained in the Church as most agreeable with the institution of Christ.
-Article 27
THE Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves, one to another, but rather it is a sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death: insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ, and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ.
Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by Holy Writ, but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped.
- Article 28.
Confirmation
(Pastoral Counseling)
Matrimony
Ordination
Visitation of the Sick
Burial of the Dead