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To: Forest Keeper; kosta50
In our church we stand whenever ANY scripture is read since it is all God's word. But I would agree with you that this practice of standing might give clues as to what a particular faith really thinks of the Bible as a whole.

I have never been in a Protestant Church which stands during the reading of all scripture. May I ask the particulars?

467 posted on 04/19/2010 6:35:44 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr; kosta50
I have never been in a Protestant Church which stands during the reading of all scripture. May I ask the particulars?

Sure. Typically at the beginning of every sermon our Pastor will introduce the theme and then refer to what amounts to the "passage(s) of the week". They come from every corner of the Bible. I consider this to be "the reading" and for this we stand every week. Now, during the sermon he will invariably refer to other supporting scriptures for this or that point, and for those we do not stand. So, if I gave the impression that we were up down up down up down the whole time, then I apologize. :) My real point was that when we do stand every week for "the reading", it does not matter whether it is from the Gospels, the OT or Revelation, etc. We treat it all equally as God's word.

482 posted on 04/20/2010 9:49:39 PM PDT by Forest Keeper ((It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.))
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