Foundations in Christian Worship Test 3 Flashcards
Worship is a product of the ________, _________, and the ________ of different historical periods.
Philosophies, changes, emphasis
When the church was young and struggling for survival, leaders were required to:
Encourage the ______
Believers
When the church no longer struggled for existence, leaders spent more energy:
Defending the ______
and shaping __________
Faith, Theology
There were many heated discussions and arguments about the ______, and about the divine versus the human nature of Christ.
Trinity
The gathering became known as the ______ of ______.
Council of Nicea
No denomination, movement or action was completely ____________ of others.
Independent
The choices of generations before as well as the current church culture have shaped and influenced the _______ through the centuries.
Church
The Reformation, the evangelical 1800’s, the ________ movement and the plethora of modern period churches and movements including the UPCI.
Pentecostal
Throughout the past two thousand years, Christian worship has seen a continuous process of development and change in response to _________ and _______ factors
Theological, cultural
But with this evolution, each period of worship renewal aspired to reach back to the Apostolic principles and practices of the ____ _______ church.
New Testament
The Biblical account given to us during the 1st century of this infant church, after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, should always be the standard for the liturgy and ______ practices of the Christian church.
Worship
The church of the apostles, when the canonical books of the NT were being written, have an ________ that no other period in history can match.
authority
Jesus and his early followers came from a ______ heritage.
Jewish
___________ concludes his gospel by mentioning that after the resurrection, the followers of Christ “stayed continually at the temple, praising God.”
Luke
“Christians may have turned the world upside down but in the form and content of their worship, it was still recognizably a _____ world.
Jewish
It is baptism in the name of _____, signifying a belonging to him
Jesus
It is associated with the gifting of the ___ Spirit
Holy
Baptism symbolizes participation in Christ’s ___ and resurrection and a new ______ as the people of God.
death, covenant
Baptism seemed to be the primary means of identifying new Christian ____.
converts
Baptism becomes the response expected from _____ preaching.
apostolic
Sometime after the 1st-century church, this formula began to be replaced by the ______ formula, “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
Trinitarian
The doctrine of the Trinity was developed over a lengthy period of time, from the early 2nd to the late ____ century.
4th
There is no direct evidence for the baptism of ___ in the NT churches, but there is also no clear ___ requirement given.
Infants, age
“Tertullian taught that at water baptism the believer has his sins _____ away,”
Washed
Tertullian taught baptism by ____ and disapproved of infant baptism
Immersion
“No one can attain ________ without baptism”
Salvation
A long period of preparation and training preceded the baptism called ________.
catechumenate
Some converts might be martyred before their period of testing was over, and they were considered to have been baptized in their own _____.
blood
Baptism included the laying on of hands and always culminated with the ____.
Eucharist
In the 4th century, initiation was firmly tied into the paschal celebration with baptism coinciding with time and day of the _____.
Resurrection
The 500 years after the NT period saw enormous ____ in every aspect of Christian worship.
changes
The washing away of sin at baptism was considered a gift of ____ removing the penalties of sin.
grace
During the Middle Ages, the baptism of ___ is the primary form of baptism to cancel the guilt of original sin.
infants
The decline in baptism by immersion is reflected in the gradual shrinking in the size of baptismal _____.
Fonts
The Anabaptists believed that the clearest sign of a pure church is when its members join by deliberate _______, not because they were baptized as an infant.
Choice
“We have not a single command in the scriptures that infants are to be baptized, or that the apostles practiced it, therefore we confess with good sense that infant baptism is nothing but human ____ and notion.
Invention
Adherents to Simmons and this movement in the Netherlands became known as ___________.
Mennonites
Baptism wasn’t abolished, it was just no longer required. It was a ____ act, but not required for the remission of sin.
Spirit
The UPCI insists on the earlier baptismal formula, “in the name of the Lord Jesus” preached and practiced by the ____ in the original church found in the book of Acts.
Apostles
After baptism, the Lord’s Supper became one of the most important aspects of NT ______.
Worship
“During the NT period, the Lord’s Supper appears to have been not a liturgy in the modern sense, but an actual ____, or a portion of one…
Meal
When Jesus instituted the “new covenant” he declared that the bread and the cup were the representations of his ___ and ____.
Body, Blood
Holy Communion speaks to our _____ with God
relationship
______ is the Greek word for “giving thanks.”
Eucharist
The early church was soon using the term Eucharist to indicate _____.
Communion
The cup of milk and honey seems to have disappeared pretty soon afterward, but the water and wine have endured, signifying the ____ of people with Christ.
Union
For various reasons, most people began to receive communion ___ frequently.
Less
In the 12th century, ________, the term to describe what Christians believe they experience in the Eucharist (the bread and wine become the actual body of Christ) began to be used.
Transubstantiation
During the middle ages, “popular piety” according to White, “always seemed to prefer _____ to philosophical explanations.”
Miraculous
The ______ became more and more essential and the priests came to acquire power and control over both penance and healing.
Clergy
The church fathers increasingly based their theology on OT traditions more than on the New Covenant, leading to serious __________ of 1st-century worship concepts, particularly in relation to the Lord’s supper.
distortions
Another very distinct activity of the NT church was their observance of ______ prayer.
Daily
Prayer was both personal and ____.
Corporate