61 posted on 04/02/2018 6:33:04 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)

To: LurkingSince'98

But then you run the risk of stuff like this:

62 posted on 04/02/2018 6:44:29 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)

To: mythenjoseph

No one is discussing the judgement of those in the pews. However, the leaders of the worship should keep the reverence of the Lord before them in both style and tone.

63 posted on 04/02/2018 7:20:14 AM PDT by EliRoom8

To: infool7; aMorePerfectUnion; ealgeone; daniel1212

You should really see someone for that.

If it’s ok with you, I don’t think I will. I am doing just fine. You can think whatever you like, and I will think whatever I like. Get used to it bro.

64 posted on 04/02/2018 8:52:06 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)

Seriously --- Am I hoping for too much?

Are you one of the 99 sheep that needs to be hand fed?

Jesus gave us ONE job:

Matthew 28:1-20

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”

65 posted on 04/02/2018 9:00:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Disagree.

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁹Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

²⁰To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews.

To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law.

²¹To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.

²²To the weak I became weak, to win the weak.

I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

²³I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

66 posted on 04/02/2018 9:03:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

You didn’t specify KJV, but I am beginning to suspect...

67 posted on 04/02/2018 9:03:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

The Lord is quite demanding on the appearance of his congregational leaders in the OT.

And JUST as 'demanding' in the NT as well...

James 2:2

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in

68 posted on 04/02/2018 9:05:38 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Bodleian_Girl

They can’t make it on this list if they use contemporary/modern music.

Damned right!!!

Gregorian chants or NOTHING!!!

69 posted on 04/02/2018 9:06:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: LurkingSince'98

NO BAND

Phooey on that; too!

Go all the way and have NO instruments at ALL!

A capella all the time; Baby!!

Galatians 5:12

70 posted on 04/02/2018 9:10:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: LurkingSince'98

I suppose though; in a pinch; one could go madrigal; too.

71 posted on 04/02/2018 9:10:33 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Oh...

WAIT!!!

Psalm 150:1-5

1 Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.

2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.

3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,

4 praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe,

5 praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.

72 posted on 04/02/2018 9:16:23 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

If you just need a peaceful place to pray, no one will notice or likely even say hello unless you engage them first.

Romans 16:16

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

73 posted on 04/02/2018 9:18:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: mythenjoseph

Ok rather than the word “interpret” let me use teaching

Some here will no doubt complain that I am posting Scripture.

I'm doing it ALL wrong; or something like that.

74 posted on 04/02/2018 9:20:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Orange County would be the most likely place to find it, imho. Start there. One of the last bastions of conservatism in SoCal, although even the OC is getting overwhelmed.

75 posted on 04/02/2018 9:22:52 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry

There could be as many as eight people that define their religion entirely by how not Catholic it is.

Then they'll lose the battle with those who know how Marian Catholicism has become.

The 15 promises

(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche)

1	Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive powerful graces.
2.	I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3.	The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies
4.	It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5.	The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
6.	Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying Himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise Him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
7.	Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8.	Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise.
9.	I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10.	The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
11.	You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12.	All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13.	I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death
14.	All who recite the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
15.	Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem,

no matter how difficult it is, wheter temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families...that cannot be solved by the Rosary.

There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."

Sister Lucia dos Santos

76 posted on 04/02/2018 9:24:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

As we Prots very rarely post anything CAUCUS like; we'll allow any Catholics to come into what was essentially a Prot 'caucus' to try to advance their cause.

I just hope they don't get too upset if we fail to engage them properly.

77 posted on 04/02/2018 9:26:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

A capella all the time; Baby!!

Shape note singing a cappella in a Primitive Baptist Church is absolutely primal, very affecting. Rock Of Ages is a whole new experience.

78 posted on 04/02/2018 9:27:22 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry

You may be barking up the wrong tree, Son.

https://www.franciscanmedia.org/blessing-of-animals/

79 posted on 04/02/2018 9:27:23 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

However, the leaders of the worship should keep the reverence of the Lord before them in both style and tone.

I recall a story about a talking ass once.

I think is was in the OT.

80 posted on 04/02/2018 9:28:16 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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