Complex sentence: The Pennsylvania Ministerium was the source of the first Lutheran litugy in America, and because of its size and age it continued to influence the church politics of Lutherans in America into the twentieth century.
Split into simpler sentences: The Pennsylvania Ministerium was the source of the first Lutheran litugy in America. Because of because of its unique place in the history of North American Lutheranism, the Ministerium continued to influence the church politics of Lutherans in America into the twentieth century.