Nuns and Monks

[Tall Timbers]

Once in Southern California I was in church and singing the best I could. Because I can't sing on key one of the gals I was with kept elbowing me and telling me to shush. After the service one of two old nuns who had been sitting behind us told me that my singing to the Lord was beautiful.

 

[Andy C]

Once in Southern California I was in church and singing the best I could. Because I can't sing on key one of the gals I was with kept elbowing me and telling me to shush. After the service one of two old nuns who had been sitting behind us told me that my singing to the Lord was beautiful.

So, too sum up your two experiences with Nuns. One tried to give you salmonella, and other one lied to you?.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Once in Southern California I was in church and singing the best I could. Because I can't sing on key one of the gals I was with kept elbowing me and telling me to shush. After the service one of two old nuns who had been sitting behind us told me that my singing to the Lord was beautiful.

So, too sum up your two experiences with Nuns. One tried to give you salmonella, and other one lied to you?.

The Bible says to make a joyful noise, not a beautiful noise, to The Lord. I'm guessing, like earthly fathers, any singing to our Heavenly Father by His children is beautiful to Him, especially since He commanded it


1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Psalm 100, KJV

 

[Andy C]

The Bible says to make a joyful noise, not a beautiful noise, to The Lord. I'm guessing, like earthly fathers, any singing to our Heavenly Father by His children is beautiful to Him, especially since He commanded it


1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Psalm 100, KJV

I never sing in church, and IMO, the praise music portion should be much shorter, and the pastor preaching longer. But, thats just me, my wife enjoys singing

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I never sing in church, and IMO, the praise music portion should be much shorter, and the pastor preaching longer. But, thats just me, my wife enjoys singing

I enjoy singing, and a lot of us sing the liturgy, chants (antiphon, Communion, etc.), and some hymns in a part instead of unison melody. Singing in parts is a fine Lutheran tradition (even as children) and it's not just for choir members It's a lot easier to do when one has a hymnal than if no hymnals and words only (no music) are projected on a screen.

Hymn and Messiah sing-alongs are popular with many Lutherans

I like that our Pastor and Vicar tailor their sermon length to the material at hand and what they want to say about it. Easier when there's only one service. Service is significantly longer when the Sanctuary is full because so many more people communing. And we sing a lot more because more hymns during Holy Communion.

The church without the liturgical service has a children's sermon right before the adult sermon, and both are held to general time limits [sigh] Except when the African Pastor preached the other day and he want for awhile (it was good, even though a lot longer than usual. all senior citizens at that service, so no problem It just meant lunch and fellowship were later

 

[daygo]

I love singing can't beat it, remember townsend saying when leaving church you have people humming a song, but you never hear them say words from a sermon. So true.

 

[yeshua'sbride]

So, too sum up your two experiences with Nuns. One tried to give you salmonella, and other one lied to you?.

 

[SkyRider]

There is only one person that's special to me and that is the Lord Jesus Christ, he's the one that I want to be like through the power of the Holy Spirit. While I was his enemy he gave his life for me and the world. Like Rom 2:4 says
the goodness of God lead me to repentance?

I am not a Baptist, I am not a Lutheran, I am not a Catholic, I am not a Presbyterian, I am not a Pentecostal, I am not a member of any religious earthly organization. I love fellowshipping with my brothers and sisters in Christ, but I don't belong to their club or earthly organization. I do gather with a local body of brothers and sisters but I’m not a member of their earthly organization. The fact that the Church is a “Body” made up of “living members” shows that it is not an “Organization,” but an “ORGANISM.

The Church is built upon the ROCK “Lord Jesus Christ Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

The word translated "church" in the English Bible is ekklesia. This word in the Greek means "the called out ones." True believers are all baptized into one body .”

After my many years of indoctrination and total allegiance to their system, then the realization that I was deceived during that whole time - from infancy up until 35 years of age - of being a Catholic, I found it extremely hard to get fully immersed into another denomination, not wanting to buy into something false again. I was more “spring-loaded” to cut ties if I heard something that I didn't like or thought was unbiblical. We left one church because the interim pastor made an off the cuff joke about being as cheap as a Jew. We live in the South and I tend to think that there is an antiSemetic sentiment lurking in the mindset of a lot of the churchgoers down here. I wrote an article one time in the local newspaper on the subject of abortion and got some feedback because I made a reference to Mary being a Jewish unwed mother when she was pregnant, with all the pressures on her, and what the result would have been if she had opted to consider that option as so many young women do today. It was the Jewish comment that had riled some to voice their displeasure. During a sermon in the church that we now belong to, the pastor during his sermon made a comment about a line from a book by Rick Warren that he liked. And I'm thinking, ‘come on, don't go quoting Rick Warren or taking cues from him’. So, yeah, I find myself these days really paying attention to any red flags that may emerge and how after Catholicism, I'm not going to go along with it.

As far as nuns, I knew a couple as a grade school student in my youth. One was Sister Jude. She was nice and there is a photograph of me and her somewhere floating around in my house or my mom's, of my first communion, with my hands in the classic Catholic posture of hands together, fingers extended and a rosary draped over it with her standing behind me. She later left the convent and got married. Then there was Mother Anne, the superior nun of the parish. I still have a mental image of her walking into our classroom in about the third grade to inform us that JFK had been shot. I had her as a teacher also one year and she had to discipline myself and two other boys because we were clowning around during class. She had us hold out our hands and she used a long pointer to smack us on our out stretched hand. I'll never forget that after she did that, she said that only one boy had apologized as he walked away. And I'm thinking to myself ” You just whacked my palm with that pointer and now you want me to say I'm sorry?? No way!”

But the priests and the sisters and the monks in that system are just as deceived as the lay people. They are only taught Roman Catholicism when they are instructed - not Biblical Christianity. They are just as equally in the dark as the ones that they lead. They don't know that they are wrong. They are just as blind to the gospel as the rest of their “faithful”. So I don,t lame them for the deception that they indoctrinate others with - they are just as much a victim of it as the rest. It is the bishops, cardinals and popes that should know better. They must have an inkling that what they are involved in is false and that they are guilty of misrepresenting Christ and the teachings of the true apostles of Jesus.

As far as monks go, I don't think that Jesus wants His disciples to lock themselves away in a monastery and spend hours alone in solitude. His Great Commission has His followers out in the world trying to save others and to propagate the gospel. Locking one's self away does not accomplish that.