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Posted on 07/29/2007 3:23:40 AM PDT by restornu
Our primary family worship service is called sacrament meeting. This meeting is held in our meetinghouses on Sunday and lasts approximately 70 minutes. Visitors are welcome to attend. It is common for families to attend, and we are accustomed to having children as part of the congregation.
A typical meeting would consist of the following:
Hymns: Religious songs sung by the congregation (hymn books are provided).
Prayers: Offered by local Church members.
Partaking of the Sacrament (Communion): The sacrament is passed to members of the congregation.
Speakers: Typically a meeting will have two or three assigned speakers.
We do not pass a plate to request donations as part of our worship services.
Additional Meetings
Visitors are also welcome to attend other Sunday meetings that precede or follow sacrament meeting: Sunday School classes are offered for each age-group, beginning with twelve year olds. Primary meetings consist of a group service and age-oriented classes for children three through eleven years of age. A nursery is available for young children, ages eighteen months to three years. Young Women meetings provide classes for those twelve through seventeen years of age. Relief Society meeting is for women, ages eighteen years and older. Priesthood meetings provide age-oriented classes for males twelve years and older. Sacrament meetings and other meetings may be conducted in differing sequences, depending on the preference of local leaders. This site displays the beginning time of the three-hour block of meetings and the starting time of sacrament meeting.
Appropriate Dress
Those who attend will most likely be wearing their "Sunday best," which may include suits, sport coats, and ties for the men and dresses or skirts for the women. Children also typically dress up for Sunday.
Helpful Information
Our local congregations are called wards (or branches). The spiritual leader of each ward is called the bishop (or the branch president for branches). He is a member of the congregation who has been asked to serve as a volunteer in this position. Because we have a lay ministry rather than paid clergy, all Church service is voluntary.
Yes and the Lord Jesus Christ Church is still standing and LDS who are not Prejudice knew what he met by that he was thankful after all the years of abuse he endure the Church is still standing
Joseph Smith was a humble servant of the Lord no matter how you try to spin it!
“PRAISE TO THE MAN by: William H. Whitsitt”
Wow, that’s at least as heretical as If I could Hie To Kolob.
Interesting list, but terribly inaccurate. Do you FReep in the Religion Forum?
That's very interesting, Resty...how did you come to know of the mormon church then? Through an advertisement?
I'm sure all his wives thought so too.
Have you ever seen the list of all the splinter groups and offshoots who left Joseph Smith and his sect and started their own. Too bad this particular prophesy of his "holding together a church" didn't come true.
Actually you should move Presbyterians down to the bashing list. We’ve taken a lot, and some of it rightly so, in the past few years.
And a Methodist to boot.
IIRC the LDS Church only recognizes one translation of the Bible. Is that still true?
I've been out for a long time, but as I recall, no open communion, and the King James Version.
I'm glad to see some discussion about the mormons here, because Gov. Romney is a candidat for the President and I know several people who are curious about his beliefs. I think if someone is going to be the leader of the free world, it should be important for him to explain to every voter about what his core beliefs are. And, I haven't seen where he really explains things very well. It looks like he doesn't want to talk about it very much.
A friend who lived in my building, who had just join gave me a copy of the Book of Mormon, and it hung around my Apt for about a year and keep falling down and one day I was going to throw it out because I did not know where it fit in!
So I stood over the waste paper basket and I felt a prompt to read Moroni 10 where it was marked.
Well I kneel over the basket and humbly prayed to Heavenly Father asked him it The Book of Mormon was true, and I received the most over whelming joy I ever knew in my life and my Baptism was unbelievable, later on when I read about the Kirtland Temple I could understand for that is how my baptism felt for weeks!
At this time the friend in the building we were not talking.
I wanted to know more about the Book of Mormon but I did not want to run into him at the Church, but my need to know was greater than my pride.
I am a investigator it come naturally to lift up every rock and I did all this on my own. I would comb the book stores and even read the negative stuff in the Christian book stores Walter Martin, John Angkleberg, and all through years stuff like Brodie, Tanners you name it I investigated it!
I thank the Lord for the Holy Ghost who help me with my discernment.
When I read the Bible and the Book of Mormon the Spirit was the same and it felt good, if I read negative things I receive a forboden butterflies, which is not of the Lord.
I would go back to the Book of Mormon and the Bible I would feel peace.
The Book of Mormon and the Bible are a wonderful marriage!
Moroni 10
3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
That takes making someone an offender for a word to a whole new level.
I don't think she really told me everything about the rites that she attended.
You say about Christians, "They are the religion of the common people in this country". Does that make pagans uncommon? That sounds a little condescending.
What the heck is wrong with you? You bigot!
/sarc
Pagans are whackos. You made a mistake by not nipping that in the bud.
Who is this Glen Beck person anyway? And why should I care what he does?
I'd pretty much 2nd that.......
And I note that you've not been responded to as of yet.....Which seems quite rampant among some.
LOL! I mean it you make me laugh!!!
This seems very strange to me also. I lurked for a long time before I joined, and I don't remember seeing this before.
I wonder if it is a new thing, and next week we will have a meeting for the "Church of Christ" which I understand Fred Thompson is. That would be only fair, I believe. And then the next week, maybe another religion so the other canidates can be featured.
I don't mean to insult your religion, bilhosty.
It’s always interesting to hear how someone’s path is guided.
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