Holly and Lily seems to be a 'religious' thing and in any Baptist church I've ever attended, we look down on 'religionists' as phoney or worse hypocrites.
I'm careful not to use a posessive "I'm a Baptist" because I consider myself more a Christian because of my acceptence of what Jesus has done for me and I now enjoy a personal relationship with Him, thus steering clear of being part of another "religion"
I was born into a Catholic home and somewhere around 12 or 13 years old, I and we (friends) just got bred with going someplace because we were sent, to do things that never changed by a religion that was more interested in controlling us rather than teach us (No one understood Latin), so what was the point .... the same movie every week ... yawn.
In 1981, I met a Messianic Jew that witnessed to me Jesus and His desire for me to be "saved" ... and THAT made sense, so I received Him as my Savior, August 15, 1981.
I went to a Baptist church shortly thereafter because I had an odd desire to be baptised (Catholics are baptized as infants and should not need nor desire another baptism, but I did, so I went where I thought you got baptized ... a Baptist church.
THERE I heard a man speak with wisdom, clarity, comviction and (as I learned and studied and even questioned what I was hearing) .. truth.
Truth is not up for arbitration nor interpretation.
Having said all that, in any Baptist church I've been in when The Lord's table or The Lord's supper was practiced, the preacher always preluded the event with the words that we were to examine ourselves and not partake if we were not born again as we believe that communion or The Lord's table was meant for Jesus inner circle and only born again believers are part of that.
The long Catholic lines?
nothing more than a show of hands.
I’ve heard the term frequently. Then again, I was a Baptist deacon for a few years and thinking back I mostly heard it while talking shop with the board and the pastor. It was not meant in a derogatory way. One of my responsibilities was reaching out to the “Holly and Lily” folks to see if they could be served by the church in some way. The responses were predictable. Most of them seemed to just be “keeping the family tradition” or “doing it for the kids”, both terms I heard frequently. Catholics aren’t the only ones guilty of making a mere “show of hands”.