Count Zinzendorf - The Village Church in Berthelsdorf

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Young Count	Germany
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Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

The Village Church in Berthelsdorf

Every Lord’s Day both Zinzendorf and his family, along with the settlers, went to the parish (Lutheran) church at Berthelsdorf. At that time Lutheran was the only legally recognized form of worship. No non-Lutheran church would exist in Herrnhut for the first twenty to thirty years.

On August 13, 1727, the settlers with Zinzendorf, during the Lord’s Table, experienced “truly a miracle of God that out of many kinds and sects...we could have been melted together into one” (Christian David). “Herrnhut became a living Congregation of Christ” (David Nitschmann). “We were baptized by the Holy Spirit Himself to one love” (Spangenberg). It “was a day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Congregation, its Pentecost” (Zinzendorf).