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Benedictions, invocations to depart with God's blessings, are a feature of the church—every liturgical structure ends with them. They were a feature of the synagogue in Christ's time—indeed Christ himself uses them when he dismisses his disciples on a new task. The word benediction derives from two Latin words that mean "to speak well of." Benedictions are pronounced by ministers at the close of...

to serve Christ and to live for Him in this dark world of sin are of real value.… Such a word as “Go in peace and serve the living God in a world of strife and turmoil” will remind each listener that his worship of God should have prepared for him a richer experience of witnessing for God in the everyday world.’ The words of dismissal are followed by the benediction, Rayburn states, for the people should not be sent forth to serve in their own strength. He explains that ‘they must ever be dismissed
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