The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America celebrates these two, together with Silas, on the same date.

** Evangelical Lutheran Worship

In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

Costa Rica ( Roman Catholic ), Denmark ( Evangelical Lutheran ), El Salvador ( Roman Catholic ), England ( Anglican ), Finland ( Evangelical Lutheran & Orthodox ), Georgia ( Georgian Orthodox ), Greece ( Greek Orthodox ), Iceland ( Evangelical Lutheran ), Liechtenstein ( Roman Catholic ), Malta ( Roman Catholic ), Monaco ( Roman Catholic ), and Vatican City ( Roman Catholic ).

For example, the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, the Lutheran Church of Australia, and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod recognize homosexual behavior as intrinsically sinful and seek to minister to those who are struggling with homosexual inclinations.

He was the director of Worship Ministries at West Evangelical Free Church.

Olive Baptist Church, First English Lutheran Church, First Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Sharpsburg Family Worship Center call Sharpsburg home.

The Russian Hymn tune continues to appear in various modern English language hymnals, such as those of the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), the Lutheran Book of Worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, or as Russia in The Hymnal 1982 of the U. S. Episcopal Church.

Both Evangelical Lutheran Worship published by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada as well as the Lutheran Service Book of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod provide daily offices along with a complete psalter.

The most recent ELCA hymnal, Evangelical Lutheran Worship, includes alternate gender-neutral invocations and benedictions in all settings.

Evangelical Lutheran Worship ( published in 2006 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ) includes " Lord, I Lift Your Name on High " by Rick Founds and " Shout to the Lord " by Darlene Zschech.

The Affirmation expressed a determination " to continue in the Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship and Evangelical Witness of the traditional Anglican Church, doing all things necessary for the continuance of the same.

In the newly released Evangelical Lutheran Worship, however, the set of prayers has been expanded to incorporate different Sunday collects for each year of the lectionary cycle, so that the prayers more closely coordinate with the lectionary scripture readings for the day.

Rubrics in Contemporary Lutheran worship manuals, including Evangelical Lutheran Worship and Lutheran Service Book, provide for making the sign of the cross at certain points in the liturgy.

* Lutheran Book of Worship, a hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

* Evangelical Lutheran Synod Worship Committee.

Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota Augsburg Fortress publishes The Lutheran, the Lutheran Book of Worship, Lutheran Study Bible and Evangelical Lutheran Worship, as well as a range of academic and educational titles.

The recent service books of both the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, who use the new " Evangelical Lutheran Worship " book, assume the service as normative.

Together with the LCMS, the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada formed the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship to undertake this project.

While it is in its twenty-seventh printing and widely used by the ELCA and the ELCIC, the LBW was replaced in October 2006 as the primary worship resource in the two denominations by Evangelical Lutheran Worship.

Some hymns to Mary are also included in the Evangelical Lutheran Worship hymnal, e. g. hymn number 251 is " My Soul Proclaims Your Greatness ", which is based on the Magnificat and hymn 419 is " For All the Faithful Women " in which the first stanza includes: " We honor faithful Mary, fair maiden, full of grace ".

The primary worship resources in these churches include Lutheran Worship, the Lutheran Book of Worship, and Evangelical Lutheran Worship.

The Hingham Lutheran Church met in several locations as well until they bought and moved the former Evangelical Church to their current location in the 1930s.

The RPCES had been formed in 1965 by a merger of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church ( an offshoot of the Bible Presbyterian Church and not the current denomination by that name ) and the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, General Synod.

Also in 1983, on the eve of the UPCUSA's and PCUS ' merger into the current PC ( USA ), several PCUS churches that had originally remained loyal in 1973 opted to join the PCA ( some others joined the recently-formed Evangelical Presbyterian Church, unrelated to the 1950s and 1960s body of that name ).

The Evangelical United Brethren Church ( EUB ) was an American Protestant church which was formed in 1946 by the merger of the Evangelical Church with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ ( not to be confused with the current Church of the United Brethren in Christ ( Old Constitution )).

Within Christianity, some mainstream Evangelical and Protestant groups adhere to the current inerrancy of Scripture as it reads today.

In 1927 the " Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy " resulted in 77 churches splitting off to form the Union of Regular Baptist Churches-out of which the current Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada merged in 1953.

According to Operation World, there are between 7, 000 and 15, 000 members and adherents of the various Protestant, Evangelical and other minority churches in Iran, though these numbers are particularly difficult to verify under the current political circumstances.

* Evangelical Friends Church – Mid America " Position Paper on Homosexuality " Published in current Faith and practice

For the most part, Evangelical Ethiopian Christians state that their form of Christianity is both the reformation of the current Orthodox Tewahido church as well as the restoration of it to the original Ethiopian Christianity.

Evangelical Christians use the alleged " secularized teaching " of the current Orthodox Tewahido church, the alleged inability of most Orthodox followers to live according to the instructions of the Bible and the extra unbiblical booklets used by rural priests, as a proof to their belief that Orthodox Tewahido teaching is mainly paganized.

Dr. Agustin B. Vencer, Filipino Pastor, Lawyer, Author, former International Director of World Evangelical Alliance, current Regional Director and Vice President at DAWN Ministries

In addition to the permanent exhibition called " Candace – Mission possible ", which gives an insight into the current work of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony and a nostalgic look at the mission ship, Candace, there are regularly changing exhibitions with art or cultural themes.

The UCEBI, whose current president is pastor Raffaele Volpe, is a member of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy, the European Baptist Federation, and the Baptist World Alliance.

² This sentence has no equivalent in the current Roman Catholic English version, although it is retained in the current version from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: " For it is fed by the melting wax which the bees, your servants, have made for the substance of this candle.

The current Evangelical Church has two branches, one in Maraland, India and the other in Burma ; these branches were separated after the Partition of India.

The current Evangelical Church of Maraland, India and Mara Evangelical Church, Myanmar were one before India partition.

* James Brainerd Taylor ( 1801 – 1829 ), maternal cousin of Brainerd ; born Middle Haddam, Connecticut ; buried in Hampden-Sydney College Church cemetery, Virginia ; obelisk in Union Hill Cemetery, Middle Haddam, Connecticut, and Princeton Cemetery of Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, New Jersey ; Lawrenceville School ( N. J ), Princeton University and Yale Divinity School-educated Second Great Awakening evangelist ; primary founder of Princeton University's Philadelphian Society of Nassau Hall ( 1825 – 1930, now called Princeton Evangelical Fellowship ); one of some 20, 000 Americans listed in Appletons ' Cyclopedia of American Biography ( 6 vol., 1887 – 89 ).

Margai received his primary education at the Evangelical United Brethren School in Bonthe, Bonthe District.

From there he probably went to the German mission at Burju where he passed the lower primary examination. He also studied at Chaibasa at Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Mission school run by German missionaries.

A low churchman now became the equivalent of an Evangelical, the designation of the movement associated with the name of Charles Simeon, which held the necessity of personal conversion to be of primary importance.

The Lutheran is the primary publication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

By 1959, the use of Slovak as a primary liturgical language had died out and the denomination was renamed the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, or SELC.

Weston Rhyn has three churches ( Presbyterian Church of Wales, Quinta Independent Evangelical Church and St John's Church of England ), three pubs, a post office, chip shop, village hall, primary school, Sunday school and general store.