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might-be-don
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Posted 5/17/2004 2:44 AM (GMT -6)

I attended a Charismatic Episcopal Church last night and found it to be an interesting experience. These folks seem to have a mixture of everything.

I believe that it was mentioned by pOtONwheEL some time back, but I can't remember, what is the purpose of the incense ?

peace, don

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Posted 5/17/2004 5:20 AM (GMT -6)

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Originally posted by might-be-don

I attended a Charismatic Episcopal Church last night and found it to be an interesting experience. These folks seem to have a mixture of everything.

I believe that it was mentioned by pOtONwheEL some time back, but I can't remember, what is the purpose of the incense ?

peace, don

Hello Don,
I have also wondered about incenses. Historically it was used with burnt offerings and to lift prayers up to God.

Exodus 30:37 (NIV)
Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the Lord.

Exodus 30:34-38 (NIV)
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Take fragrant spices--gum resin, onycha and galbanum--and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts, [35] and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred. [36] Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you. [37] Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the Lord. [38] Whoever makes any like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from his people."

Luke 1:9-10 (NIV)
he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. [10] And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.

Malachi 1:11 (NIV)
My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations," says the Lord Almighty.

Peace,

Mark

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Posted 5/17/2004 11:59 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by might-be-don

I attended a Charismatic Episcopal Church last night and found it to be an interesting experience. These folks seem to have a mixture of everything.

I believe that it was mentioned by pOtONwheEL some time back, but I can't remember, what is the purpose of the incense ?

peace, don

"Incense -- Incense is not something found exclusively in the Orthodox Church, of course. As we read in the Psalms, incense signifies our prayers rising to God as a sweet fragrance: "Let my prayer arise in thy sight as incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice."" www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/q-and-a_old/function-in-worship.html

Smoke is just smoke. But it can be made an offering of worship. Songs are just noise, but....

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