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To: wmfights
FWIW, you notice they didn't follow some highly ritualized practice. It was really simple. They heard the gospel and those that were meant to believed and were saved

Is there anything that says one cannot have a highly ritualized practice when it comes to praising God? We are to pray incessently. Isn't that ritualized? Are you suggesting a DIY "Church?" Do you suggest reading the Bible standing or sitting or lying down? How do you suggest we show praise to the Lord? Waving your hands in the air as if saying "Can You see me now?"

7,006 posted on 09/22/2007 8:27:34 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
Is there anything that says one cannot have a highly ritualized practice when it comes to praising God?

As usual you have missed the point.

Something about vain repetitions.

History has also shown us that those sects which have the most rigid ritualistic practices are also the same sects which were the quickest to persecute Christians who refused to follow their ritualistic practices, or submit to their authority. Also, it seems that the more rigid and ritualistic the sects practices are the less Scriptural knowledge the congregation possess.

7,012 posted on 09/23/2007 6:10:08 AM PDT by wmfights (LUKE 9:49-50 , MARK 9:38-41)
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