Liturgy is the ordered pattern by which a religious community conducts its worship; in a Christian context it usually refers to the planned sequence of readings, prayers, hymns, preaching and the Lord's Supper. In Turkish the word 'ayin' is mostly used for the ceremonial worship of the historic churches (Orthodox, Catholic, Syriac), while Protestant communities tend to call the same gathering simply 'worship' or 'the meeting'. The Bible does not impose a single fixed order of service; yet it records that the first community devoted itself to the apostles' teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread and the prayers, and that gatherings were to be conducted 'decently and in order'. Liturgy, then, describes the vessel rather than the essence: the aim is that the community glorifies God together, intelligibly and in good order. The skeleton of early Christian worship — reading, explanation, prayer, breaking bread — carries deep marks of the synagogue pattern.