Order of Services
There are three orders of church services:
Sunday Services
Communion Services
Thanksgiving Services
Sunday Services
Hymn
Scriptural Selection
Silent Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation
Hymn
Notices
Solo
Golden Text
Responsive Reading (read alternately by the First Reader and the congregation)
Lesson-Sermon
Collection
Hymn
The scientific statement of being and its correlative scripture according to I John 3:1–3
Benediction
A slightly different order is followed for Communion services, which are held in branch churches the second Sunday of January and July.
Communion Services
Hymn
Scriptural Selection
Silent Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation
Hymn
Notices
Collection and Solo
Golden Text
Responsive Reading (read alternately by the First Reader and the congregation)
Lesson-Sermon
Silent communion and Lord’s Prayer
Hymn (Doxology: Be Thou, O God, exalted high; / And as Thy glory fills the sky, / So let it be on earth displayed, / Till Thou art here and now obeyed.
The scientific statement of being and its correlative scripture according to I John 3:1–3
Benediction
Thanksgiving Services
Hymn
Thanksgiving Proclamation of the President of the United States, or the Governor of the state, or both
Scriptural Selection
Silent Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation
Hymn
Golden Text
Responsive Reading
(read alternately by the First Reader and the congregation)
Lesson-Sermon
Solo
Testimonies by Christian Scientists, appropriate for the occasion
Hymn
The scientific statement of being and its correlative scripture according to I John 3:1–3
Benediction