Major Revisions of the General Services of the Church
Baptism, Lord's Supper, Marriage, Burial, and the Ordinal within the Methodist & United Methodist Traditions
by Kenneth Rowe, Ph.D.
|
Methodist Episcopal Church
|
| 1784 |
Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America
|
| 1792 |
Abbreviated "Sacramental Services" & minimal "Direction for Public Worship"
|
| 1860 |
Text revised |
| 1864 |
Text revised |
| 1884 |
Text revised |
| 1891 |
Wesley's Sunday Service & Selected Psalms reprinted |
| 1896 |
"Order of Worship" added to 1878 Hymnal |
| 1905 |
Joint Hymnal with Methodist Episcopal Church, South, including "Order of Worship"
|
| 1916 |
Text revised
|
| 1932 |
Book of Services
|
| 1935 |
Joint Hymnal with four "Orders of Worship" |
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
|
| 1854 |
Text revised |
| 1858 |
Text revised |
| 1867 |
Partial reprint of Wesley's Sunday Service |
| 1870 |
Text revised |
| 1905 |
Joint Hymnal with Methodist Episcopal Church including "Order of Worship" |
| 1910 |
Text revised |
|
1935
|
Joint Hymnal with four "Orders of Worship" |
Methodist Church
|
| 1944 |
Book of Worship |
| 1957 |
Wesley Orders of Common Prayer |
| 1960 |
Book of Worship for trial use |
| 1964 |
Book of Worship and Hymnal with two "Orders of Worship" |
United Methodist Church
|
| 1972+ |
Supplemental Worship Resources |
| 1984 |
Book of Services |
| 1989 |
Hymnal with "Basic Pattern" & new General Services |
| 1992 |
Book of Worship |
