Voice of faith for church and home

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Voice of Faith for Congregation and House (gilt edging 1963)

Voice of Faith for Congregation and House is the title of a church hymn book that was used in the Evangelical Free Churches in Germany (and especially those with a Baptist character) from 1951 to 1978. It superseded the 1937 Voice of Faith for the Lord's Churches . Succession Hymns were the 1978 published municipality songs that both the Baptist and the Free Evangelical churches served as liturgical songbook. As early as 1951, the Otto Ekelmann publishing house (East Berlin) published a reprint for the Evangelical Free Churches in the GDR . The 1956 edition of the Voice of Faith was also published in Braille .

scope

The voice of faith appeared as a sheet music edition and as a pure text edition in different presentations. The hymn book contains 500 thematically arranged church chants. Both the sheet music and the text output have an alphabetical table of contents. Various appendices are attached to the music edition of the hymnal. This includes a list of songwriters and a list of composers . The names mentioned here are each provided with brief biographical information and corresponding song notes. A list of the parallel melodies can also be found in the appendix. In the late 1960s, a booklet with alternate readings from the Old and New Testament was published for the liturgical organization of the services under the title Words of the Holy Scriptures . Its size corresponded to the hymn book format and could be integrated into the voice of faith by means of an adhesive strip .

structure

The Songs of the Voice of Faith are divided into seven main sections and numerous subsections. The section headings name the spiritual expressions of life of the church to which the songs are thematically assigned.

The first main section The praying church is divided into the categories of worship , thanks, and petition and prayer . Another main section is under the heading The Preaching Church . Here you can find the subdivisions The Savior and The Salvation Facts (structured according to the church year ). The experiencing church is the title of the third main section. The sub-items here are the desire for salvation and repentance , faith and justification , rebirth and filiation , election and certainty, and devotion and sanctification . The chapter The Fighting Church has the following subdivisions: fight and victory , confidence and trust , humility and loyalty , hope and patience, and vigilance and self-examination .

The section The Celebrating Congregation is divided into worship , closing chants , Word of God , Day of the Lord , Congregation of Christ , baptism , Lord's Supper and fellowship . Under the pilgrim community following subsections are listed: pilgrim status , time of day , year running , family , death and burial , the second coming of Christ and the completion of the redeemed . The main section, the missionary community, forms the end . Mission songs and from the revival derived healing songs form the subsections here.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The year of publication of the Faith Voice is 1950; they were not delivered until 1951. See Edwin Brandt: Chronik 1945 - 1984 , in: Ein Herr, ein Glaube, ein Taufe. 150 Years of Baptist Congregations in Germany (Ed. Günter Balders), Wuppertal and Kassel 1984, p. 309
  2. ↑ The article is based on the following largely unchanged edition: Voice of Faith for Congregation and House. Edition of the sheet music (Ed. Bund Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher Gemeinde), Kassel 1963
  3. ^ German National Library: Voice of Faith for Congregation and House (GDR) ; accessed on September 13, 2011
  4. ↑ Blista catalog: detailed view of “Voice of Faith for Church and House” (Braille) ; accessed on February 3, 2016
  5. ↑ Glaubensstimme (1950), pp. III - XI