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JustaServant
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Interestingly, the word “worship” in both Hebrew and Greek means “to prostrate” oneself, i.e. kneeling.
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pablope
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Jim…just read your story. How your observations ring out so loud! I think you would make a great guest on The Journey Home (if you have not yet)…
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Hiskid1973
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I just love to kneel before the Lord…When worship starts I would get down on the floor slowly before Him…I had to stop going now for awhile because of my health…I have been watching Charles Stanley…I have praise and worship cd’s…My back pretty rough from a work accident so the pastor brought a recliner to sit in when I am feeling better…I long to sit at Jesus feet on the other side…God bless…
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ByHisWounds
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I’m Baptist and we do kneel. Not in our pews, but at the altar or in our bedrooms, or as a family in prayer. And I always bow my heart in prayer regardless of my physical position.
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TEPO
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So why not gather at home -father, mother, brother, sister, children?
All I’m saying is that if I were ever seperated from the Holy Church, God forbid, I would never join a non-Catholic group of worshipers who “fellowship” behind their preacher… I would just pray at home with my family.
Sorry, I just don’t get it…
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ByHisWounds
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For those who cannot get to a church (in countries where it is forbidden) they do just that. But blessed are we to be able to worship together in public. My church is my family. I learn from them, they pray for me, we study together, etc. We join for baptisms and dedications. And we do partake in the Lord’s Supper. We challenge and strengthen each other.So why not gather at home -father, mother, brother, sister, children?
All I’m saying is that if I were ever seperated from the Holy Church, God forbid, I would never join a non-Catholic group of worshipers who “fellowship” behind their preacher… I would just pray at home with my family.
Sorry, I just don’t get it…
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4Squarebaby
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That is because we don’t fellowship behind a preacher, the authority figure of the Church is more of a Catholic mindset. The church becomes the extended family and the pastor is just the teacher, one among many. We fellowship with the entire family of believers and don’t cut ourselves off from the greater community. Also what if spouse, parent or child do not believe are those individual Christians the only ones you think should leave home one morning a week to meet with other people?So why not gather at home -father, mother, brother, sister, children?
All I’m saying is that if I were ever seperated from the Holy Church, God forbid, I would never join a non-Catholic group of worshipers who “fellowship” behind their preacher… I would just pray at home with my family.
Sorry, I just don’t get it…
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lil_flower_luv
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I took one look at this thread’s title and immediately prayed: Thank You Lord Jesus for giving us the opportunity to gather not just on Sunday to take part in Your Holy Feast, but every day.
Let’s hear it for daily Mass, everyone!!
+JMJ+
Let’s hear it for daily Mass, everyone!!
+JMJ+
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Richard_Kastner
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Well for one thing the bible tells us to come together.So why not gather at home -father, mother, brother, sister, children?
All I’m saying is that if I were ever seperated from the Holy Church, God forbid, I would never join a non-Catholic group of worshipers who “fellowship” behind their preacher… I would just pray at home with my family.
Sorry, I just don’t get it…
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21And having an high priest over the house of God;
22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised
24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
My question is why come together at all on Sunday? God’s word says to come together on the seventh day Sabbath, which is Saturday.
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cooterhein
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It’s a mix. Depends on the time of year. Sometimes it’s Tuesdays, sometimes Wednesdays or Thursdays, sometimes praise sometimes Bible study. I did something that was a mix of both for awhile and met more consistently. With small group situations, there can be a decent rate of turnover or schedule conflicts that make that small group change the time, day, or location a time or two each year. Sunday mornings are often the only times when everyone’s always free. Even when there is something that always meets Wed. nights, it’s never possible for everyone to be there, and no one can always be there. Unless they’re actually employed by the church, of course.
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cooterhein
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People sometimes ask me what’s the point of going to church. Usually not in this context, but the answer’s about the same. For me (and quite a few other Protestants), we look ahead to a time when we worship God together for eternity. We can’t do it perfectly now, but we try to approximate it, practice for it, and get a foretaste of what we plan on doing forever after we die. The extent to which we succeed in doing this is the extent to which we are pleased with our communal worship. Needless to say, we don’t envision an eternity of fellowship that is done from “behind a preacher,” and our intent is not to practice such a thing now. We tend to see our leaders as fellow-worshippers, both now and in the life to come.So why not gather at home -father, mother, brother, sister, children?
All I’m saying is that if I were ever seperated from the Holy Church, God forbid, I would never join a non-Catholic group of worshipers who “fellowship” behind their preacher… I would just pray at home with my family.
Sorry, I just don’t get it…
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PbloPicasso
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and oh yes my friend. growing up in a christian reformed home, if you missed sunday, you were going to hell. if you rode your bike on sunday, if you went for a boat ride, if you listened to the wrong kind of music…hell and damnation were every where in my nice calvinistic upbringing. so there is that mindset in at least some protestant movements.lol! peace
My wife and children are all going to hell on a bread basket now that we’ve converted, according to our previous faith. For us, the bible authorizes 5 acts of worship, one being the Lord’s Supper where I used to wait on the table and say the prayer over the bread and wine on occasion. Jesus sums up the law if you remember, which are the 10 commandments restated in short. One includes keeping the Lord’s day holy. So under the New Testament everyone that misses worship commits an act of sin that without proper repentance sends the straight to hell when they die.One elder at our previous church said that “elders are the highest authority in all the land”, which implied church authority and got me to thinking about where that left me after leaving the Catholic faith in my youth, uncatechised, but trying to learn with no help form anyone no matter who I asked. So I said to myself that if they claim authority as the reason, then why would anyone from any faith not be Catholic since they were the first and they were the ones that clarified and coined the term trinity and purgatory, thought stated in scripture. Good question though. And one that many fallen away Catholics have yet to confront with clarity in my opinion.
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JustaServant
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I have only been in one Brethren church in my life, and I was impressed by the fact that the congregation gets on their knees during prayer. I don’t know if this is the norm, in Brethren churches, but they were actually doing what the word means.
Years ago I visited a small Baptist church that had been converted from either a Catholic or Episcopal church. The pastor bragged how he removed the altar rails and kneelers because “kneeling was Catholic”.
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Bluegoat
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Interestingly, the Eastern Churches don’t often kneel. I believe that includes the Eastern Catholics.
I’m not sure what you are saying - the Protestants you are talking about are meeting with members of their own group, not with people who are not.So why not gather at home -father, mother, brother, sister, children?
All I’m saying is that if I were ever seperated from the Holy Church, God forbid, I would never join a non-Catholic group of worshipers who “fellowship” behind their preacher… I would just pray at home with my family.
Sorry, I just don’t get it…
When Catholics live in a place where there is no priest or church, they often get together with other Catholics to pray, hear the Word, praise God, sing, study, and have fellowship with the larger Catholic community. Just what Protestants who are not sacramental do. In fact those things are part of the Catholic Eucharist service, or the group prayer services like Vespers.
As an Anglican, we have the Eucharist weekly, and many parishes have it more often if possible - my parish has the Eucharist three times a week plus on feast days. But we also have Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer daily, and sometimes Compline.
I am baffled that you are confused about why people would not see any reason to meet together for anything but the Eucharist. But this is the attitude that leads to that peculiar Catholic phenomena, the herd of people running for the door as soon as they come out of the Communion line.
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Publisher
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Friends meet each First Day to receive Christ Himself in our midst. He is truly present and moves among us, ministering to each heart as we collectively “meet” with Him to share in His mercy, grace, love and peace. Collectivelly we raise our hearts to Him in worship and praise. We do not engage in “outward forms” of rituals…but seek to experience His Presence directly.
We use First Day to meet for business once a month after Meeting to “be about our Father’s business” and to seek direction on how to handle some of the temporal needs of our Meeting and community.
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John1
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Because they want to express their love of God the Father and His Son Jesus, and to express their love for one another, I suppose.
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Hiskid1973
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I think too many people put God in a box…They think their way is correct and all others are wrong…Heaven will be filled with all that are “in Christ”…There will be many there that weren’t part of their group…Believe it or not Christ views all who are “In Christ” on the same level
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StevenFrancis
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That’s an interesting question and observation. I’m a convert and I have trouble remembering why I went to church before. (I didn’t go very much, actually, I was usually drinking beer and watching football).
They say it’s about fellowship, and you do usually get a few bible passages, and a lively homily (sermon). But in retrospect, (NOT while I was actually doing it), it seems kind of empty. (I stress, NOT while I was doing it). I’m not criticizing ANYone for going to their Sunday meetings. No matter what stripe or affiliation. Just saying that in the conversion process, I have lost clarity on remembering much of my former thoughts, motivations, ideas, etc. I am truly a new being. So it’s hard to understand even myself (in the past), let alone, people who are still involved with other churches, denominations, etc…
God bless, and Happy New Year everyone.
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Hiskid1973
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People get out of a relationship what they put in…I had a powerful conversion to Christ in 1973…I sought out like minded believers in the churches over the last almost 40 years… My faith for Christ still burns with a passion…It’s all about dying to self and living for Christ…He knows who are hot, lukewarm and cold around us all…Ive shared the message of Christ’s plan of salvation with hundreds over the years…I’ve see people messed on drugs turn their lives around from a born anew relation with Christ…One of the most godly/mature persons I know is just a “christian” who goes to a little bible church in the country…The proof is in the pudding with a changed life maturing in their walk with Christ…
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LutheranDK
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Because the first Christians did.
And non-RCs do celebrate Holy Communion. At least most do.
Furthermore: Said celebration was not the only thing that occured at the gatherings of the First Church. Instruction (sermons), song, public prayers, etc, were also part of the service. It’s not like they all went in, then had Communion, and then went home again…
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