Worship: Tertullian on Christian Worship Practices
Teaching on Worship from Tertullian: Tertullian on Christian Worship Practices
This is a spiritual discipline on early worship and agape feast, drawing on Acts 2:42, 1 Corinthians 14:26 and Hebrews 10:25.
Tertullian (d. c. 220) provides one of the earliest descriptions of how Christians actually worshipped. In his "Apology," he wrote: "We meet together as an assembly to offer prayer to God. We read the divine scriptures. If the nature of the times requires, we give exhortation. After this, we rise from our seats. There is the collection of alms. Then the gifts are taken from the table."…
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