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PotOnWheel
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Posted 7/26/2004 4:03 AM (GMT -6)

Close That Bible
by Peter Leithart
Copyright © 2004 Credenda/Agenda.
www.credenda.org/issues/14-3liturgia.php

rossfadeinout
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Posted 7/26/2004 10:08 AM (GMT -6)

Interesting article POW.Definitely goes against my baptist upbringing where I was disciplined for not having my bible open when the preacher was preaching....

Ross

"Let us remember how common the folly is of going from one faulty extreme into the opposite." -Thomas Reid

feelinahole
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Posted 7/26/2004 7:07 PM (GMT -6)

I usually read the scripture before the pastor and then listen...

PotOnWheel
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Posted 7/26/2004 7:31 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by feelinahole

I usually read the scripture before the pastor and then listen...

Me too!

I go over the liturgy too.

1Heart
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Posted 7/26/2004 10:02 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by PotOnWheel

quote:
Originally posted by feelinahole

I usually read the scripture before the pastor and then listen...

Me too!

I go over the liturgy too.

I learned from seminary days to take notes during sermons. I still do; but my notes are more like my thoughts, or questions, sometimes even prose that I am inspired to write during the sermon. I write what is really striking or meaningful to me during the message; or what I hear the Spirit saying to me. It has helped me concentrate, and inspired me to "dig deeper" myself. Sometimes I close my eyes and just listen (if I'm not tired). I don't think there is any "right" way; as long as we are listening and responding.

I guess that is a good thing from my Baptist upbringing! I have great respect for Baptists (now non-denominational).

Night and God Bless,
Jo-Anne

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

PotOnWheel
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Posted 7/27/2004 4:55 AM (GMT -6)

Sounds GREAT Jo-anne.

Me too--either physical notes or mental notes.

And I appreciate when the "order of worship" allows time to respond to hearing God's word, before the pastor comments on it. At Vespers, after the reading of the Gospel, the Orthodox sing "Having beheld the resurrection" as Christ himself is our resurrection, and the Gospel reading is the presentation of Christ our redeemer.

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