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Crossword
Test your knowledge of church trivia with the clues below.
Quotation Location: General Assemblies
Draw a line connecting the scripture reference with the correct quotation, then check your answers in the Bible. (NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION)
ACROSS
Psalm 149:1
Numbers 15:15
Acts 15:12
Psalm 107:32
Luke 1:10
Now at the time of the incense of- fering, the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.
The whole assembly kept silence, and listened to Barnabas and Paul as they told of all the signs and wonders that God had done through them among the Gentiles.
Let them extol him in the congrega- tion of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assem- bly of the faithful.
As for the assembly, there shall be for both you and the resident alien a single statute, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you and the alien shall be alike before the Lord.
3. The number of books in the New Testament.
6. _______Corbettwasthefirstdeaconessandnon-ministerofwordandsacramentselectedas
Moderator of the General Assembly (1996).
7. GeneralAssemblywasheldinwhatcitythisyear?
8. TheGospelof________isgenerallyconsideredtheoldestofthefourgospels.
10. On June 9, 1994, The Presbyterian Church in Canada offered a ____________ that acknowledges the
harm that we have done, our insensitivity to Indigenous cultures, our past involvement in the residential school system, and asks for forgiveness, so that we may walk with Indigenous people to find healing and wholeness together as God’s people.
12. An equal number of teaching and ________elders are commissioned to attend and vote at the General Assembly each year.
13. The burning bush described in the Book of ______ is used as a symbol for many Presbyterian churches.
16. _________ is the name of the slave mentioned in the Epistle to Philemon.
17. The name of the Babylonian king _________ is used to refer to a bottle of wine equal to 20 standard
bottles of wine.
18. The _______ is the list of people who belong to a cour t of the church.
DOWN
1. Thetitleofthepersonnamedbyacourtofthechurchtotakeminutesandkeeprecords.
2. FromtheLatinfor“Theyweresitting,”________isthewordweuseforasessionofthemeetingsofthe
General Assembly.
4. JohntheBaptistbaptizedJesusintheRiver________.
5. TheBookof_______isthenameofthebookthatcontainsthegeneralrulesforchurchcourtsandother
church standards as well as rules and procedures.
8. Thetitleofthepersonelectedtokeeporderduringameeting.
9. June21marksNational________PeoplesDayinCanada.
11. The motto nec ______ consumebatur, that many PCC congregations use, is taken from the story of
Moses and the burning bush.
14. The Honourable Justice Murray ________ was the chair of the Commissioners of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
15. A _________ became a symbol for Christians and the church in the ancient world because the
CROSSWORD ANSWERS
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letters for this word in Greek word were acrostic for “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.”
ACROSS
16. Onesimus
17. Nebuchadnezzar 18. Roll
5. Forms
8. Moderator 9. Indigenous 11. Tamen 14. Sinclair 15. Fish
3. Twentyseve 6. Tamiko
7. Waterloo
8. Mark
10. Confession 12. Ruling
DOWN
13. Exodus
1. Clerk
2. Sederunt 4. Jordan