The Assembly (1)
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What Does the Bible Say about the Assembly?
What Did Christians Do When They Gathered Together?
What was the Purpose of the Gathering?
Worship Service?
To Be with God?
To Be with Each Other?
What could We Do to Make Our Gatherings More like the 1st Century Gatherings?
Alexander Campbell’s Ideal Assembly:
Call to worship by the “president”
Congregational singing
Reading from a gospel
Prayer (with whole congregation answering “amen”)
Reading from an epistle
Congregational singing
Members sit around a table (“strangers sat off on seats more remote”)
President offers exhortation
Thanks for the one loaf
Raised, broke and distributed the Loaf
Thanks for the cup
Raised the cup and then handed the cup to be passed around
President calls upon members to remember the poor
Prayer (kneeling)
Contribution (fellowship)
Invitation to all men to exhort or teach or read Scripture
Congregational singing
Apostolic benediction