Perform in church with ace Bible books (5)
I believe the answer is:
chant
'perform' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with creating things as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'church with ace bible books' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'church' could be 'ch' (common abbreviation) and 'ch' is located in the answer.
'ace' could be 'a' (abbreviation) and 'a' is located in the answer.
'bible' could be 'nt' (short for New Testament) and 'nt' is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chant that I've seen before include "Type of group singing" , "Repetitive song" , "A monotonous song or rhythmic call" , "Recite singingly" , "Vocal music" .)