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.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
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1784 |
Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America
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1792 |
Abbreviated "Sacramental Services" & minimal "Direction for Public Worship"
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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"
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1916 |
Text revised
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1932 |
Book of Services
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1935 |
Joint Hymnal with four "Orders of Worship" |
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
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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
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Joint Hymnal with four "Orders of Worship" |
Methodist Church
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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
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1972+ |
Supplemental Worship Resources |
1984 |
Book of Services |
1989 |
Hymnal with "Basic Pattern" & new General Services |
1992 |
Book of Worship |