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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.
If you could hie to Kolob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwYm_mKQ3Gs
In all my 25 years I never had to bring tax papers!
You really should attend a LDS meeting and deside for yourself!
Christ’s Sermon to the 3 Nephi 12 Part 1
http://www.byu.tv/index.html?start=25200&stop=27000&show=&ep=http://qmplive.xlontech.net/byutv/stream/070725.qvt
Christ’s sermon to the 3 Nephi 13 Part 2
http://www.byu.tv/index.html?start=27000&stop=28800&show=&ep=http://qmplive.xlontech.net/byutv/stream/070725.qvt
I surely would like you to just answer yes or no to my questions, though. Sigh.
Enjoy reading the Bible references left on this thread. Let me know what you think after you're done.
I have read those and even have more but you are not interested!
I welcome all I can read on the topic of the Lord doings and those who are around him!
~”Do you freely worship Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of all in your meetings?”~
Yes. In fact, we discussed the atonement and crucifixion in Sunday School today.
If you would accept the invitation to attend the meetings, you would see for yourself.
“Hie? Is that a mispelled word? If not what does it mean?”
It is now arcane English, it means “get yourself moving” as in Hie to Kolob
Am glad you discussed "the atonement and crucifixion in Sunday School" yesteerday. Did you study Bible verses about this subject? If so, which ones. thanks.
A Stake President is the head of the Stake.
Mitt has been both a Bishop and a Stake President.
Bump
Bump again.
(You are spot on)
Bump again.
(You are spot on)
I believe that we established on another thread that the LDS adhere to a number of different major heresies that were identified and proscribed during the first millennium. Therefore, we would not consider them Christian. But then, the Jews would not consider us Jewish either, even though we have incorporated their Scripture into the Bible.
One thing that we have, though, is the semi-documented founding of a religion. It is possible to compare Christianity, the LDS, Islam, Scientology and other religions by comparing and contrasting the individuals who founded them, the methodology of creation, the complete theology, the command and control of their members, and the overriding aims and goals of that religion.
I guess she isn’t familiar with this
Mat 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Let me show her the present translation (it’s simpler to understand):
Mat 5:37 (NIV) Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
It is an extra-Christian denomination. IOW they add things to the belief. This is quite a bit different to a lot of churches today that subtract stuff from the belief. Paul’s teachings on church leaders has been stripped from a lot of churches.
I cause so much trouble in the Methodist Church that the Mormons keep a safe distance.
::grins::
An interesting way of putting it. Subtracting from, rather than adding to.
Are your local Methodists as apprehensive about you as well?
“I was commenting on the way “Meeting House” has apparently been changed to “Meetinghouse” — one word.”
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 11th Edition lists it as one word. Language changes over the years.
Excuse me I am not taking an oath!~
So you will lie as long as you’re not under oath? And where did anyone accuse you of being under oath. The command is simple.
Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay. Can you do this? Do you realize how many posts it took for you to admit (did you ever really admit) that Mormonism teaches that Satan is the spirit brother of Jesus - as we all are?
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