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To: El Cid

I know a couple people who go to a KJV church in Concord NH.

Nice folks, but I like the ESV for readability and when I want to know the deeper meaning go to Bible Hub for the Greek.


10 posted on 01/08/2024 7:23:04 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: metmom

The KJV-only churches tend to have very shallow academic backgrounds and shallow “seminary” educations. Not saying that academics is everything, but they don’t even put any emphasis on learning and studying the original languages of the Scriptures.


14 posted on 01/08/2024 7:35:44 AM PST by fwdude (.)
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To: metmom

Our church is a KJV Bible for the pastor, per our church constitution and by-laws, but the congregation is left to decide for themselves which Bible they want to use. One of our deacons likes the NIV Bible and the pastor will tease him about it good naturedly time to time and that is the extent of forcing the KJV. I myself will use the KJV and look at other translations, including the Blue Letter Bible website to look up specific words and their translations.

Our church does the Lord’s Supper at the beginning of every quarter. And we do have children’s church which is age limited and left entirely up to the parents whether or not they want to send their children to it. I’ve seen our pastor go right on with a sermon with kids crying or screaming, doesn’t seem to phase him.

We don’t make visitors stand up or fill our cards, but before the services members of the congregation will walk around and greet each other and visitors and shake hands, it’s just how our church has always been. Otherwise we are more traditional as church starts with a deacon or assistant pastor welcoming everyone to the church, just a welcome and here’s what’s going on this week. Another thing we like to do is recognize members with birthdays or anniversaries during this time and the choir will sing happy birthday to those present, then singing of traditional hymns, then usually something contemporary for when the offering is taken up(I run the sound and we were without a musician one Sunday and I played the first contemporary song during the offering, (Amazing Grace, My Chains are Gone) and we had choir members getting in the Spirit and singing and eventually shouting, the pastor said in forty years he had never had shouting happen while taking up the offering), then the choir sings a special and goes down to sit in the congregation.

The pastor is introduced by the choir director and he usually just says this is our pastor, first and last name and then he begins his sermon. It may go on for thirty minutes or an hour. We may or may not have an invitation at the end of the service it depends on the pastor and how the Lord is leading him.

On Sunday and Wednesday evenings at the end of the service they pastor will take prayer requests for the sick and those in distress. Sometimes they will request being anointed with oil and hands laid on them for the prayer. The elders will gather around the person requesting prayer and pray.


31 posted on 01/08/2024 9:43:31 AM PST by sarge83
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