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The 2nd Chapter of Acts was ___MASK18___ ___MASK23___ music and early contemporary Christian music group composed of sisters Annie Herring and Nelly Greisen and brother Matthew Ward . They began performing in 1973 and enjoyed their period of greatest ___MASK69___ during the 1970s . The group disbanded in 1988 . Nelly ( Ward ) Greisen ( born ___MASK43___ 11 , 1955 ) was a member of the Jesus music and contemporary Christian music trio 2nd Chapter of Acts . She joined her older sister , Annie Herring , and younger brother , Matthew Ward , to form the group which began singing together in 1970 and disbanded in 1988 . Greisen then turned her attention to ___MASK49___ a full - time mother to her two sons , and to supporting her husband , Steve Greisen , in his film business . ___MASK20___ Herring ( born ___MASK20___ Ward ___MASK63___ 22 , 1945 ) is ___MASK8___ of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre , later to be called Contemporary Christian music . She was a member of the trio 2nd Chapter of Acts , for which she wrote most of the ___MASK54___ and sang lead and harmony vocals with her brother Matthew Ward and sister Nelly ( Ward ) Greisen . During her musical career with the 2nd Chapter of Acts from 1973 to 1988 , she also recorded solo albums . Contemporary Christian ___MASK15___ ( ___MASK14___ CCM  and occasionally " inspirational ___MASK15___ ") is a genre of modern popular ___MASK15___ which is lyrically focused ___MASK38___ matters concerned with the Christian faith . It formed as those affected by the ___MASK13___ Jesus movement revival began to express themselves in a more contemporary style of ___MASK15___ than the ___MASK59___ , Gospel and Southern Gospel ___MASK15___ that was prevalent in the church at the time . Today , the term is typically used to refer to pop , rock , ___MASK14___ praise & worship styles . ___MASK23___ music , known ___MASK88___ gospel ___MASK66___ music in the United Kingdom , is a style of Christian music that originated ___MASK38___ the West Coast of the United States in the late ___MASK13___ and early 1970s . This musical genre developed in parallel to the ___MASK23___ movement . It outlasted the movement that spawned it and the Christian music industry began to eclipse it and absorb its musicians around 1975 . Night Light ___MASK44___ the title of a 1985 studio album by 2nd Chapter of Acts .