presermon
adjEtymology From pre- + sermon.
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Before the sermon.
- Such movement, as with the other two ministers, is structured around the distinction between the presermon period of messages and church business, and that part of the service which involves the sermon.1980, John Brown Childs, The Political Black Minister:
- We can prepare a congregation for a sermon through presermon study and/or discussion groups, either with the pastor or among the laity themselves.1981, William H. Willimon, Integrative preaching: the pulpit at the center, →ISBN, page 29:
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- Dr. Wenig has agreed to deliver today's presermon talk.2008, Toni Bickl, About God, the World and People, →ISBN, page 140: