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1 | "The Disciple's Prayer"? | Luke 11:2 | Hank | 10431 | ||
Steve, while I most certainly appreciate your respect accorded to me, the ancient one, by addressing me as Mr. Hank, you have my special permission to continue calling me merely Hank :-) What you say about respect of the younger generation for the older in our society is by and large the case these days. But I am ever so much more grieved by the lack of reverence to God by our people in this land -- to God, to His Name, to His Holy Word. We've seen, on occasion, God's word challenged, maligned and treated with abject disrespect even on this, what purports to be a forum for Bible study...... Now, I'm not a Roman Catholic, I'm a Bible-thumping Southern Baptist, but I am always deeply impressed when I see a Catholic priest, at the end of his reading from the Bible, kiss it before he puts it down..... And Yes, Steve, a thousand times Yes, we should honor the name of our Holy God, not make it common and certainly not use it in vain. The Jews were in such awe of the covenant Name that they dared not utter it. Don't you love that old hymn, "Blessed be the name, blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord." --Hank | ||||||
2 | "The Disciple's Prayer"? | Luke 11:2 | EdB | 10489 | ||
I will never forget my surprise when I heard a young lady (late twenties) refer to pastor as “dude”. I thought to myself where is the respect? However about a month later I heard her pray and then I knew. Her prayer started “Hey Dude” There was no respect. To me that is just a little to familiar. As to your statement of Holiness and the Catholic church. If Protestants could just have half the appreciation for Holiness that I see in the Catholic church I would be ecstatic. For years we have been fighting a battle to keep people from going behind the altar area in our church, especially kids. Most ignore all requests to stay out and to keep their children out and walk back there with seeming impunity. Our reason is the costly sound equipment and to some degree a lesson in holiness. One day a Catholic man came to the church to look at something. He noticed the 3D painting of an open window looking out into the heavens with a cross and dove in the center. He rushed to view the mural until he got the altar rail and stopped instantly. He then turned to the Pastor and asked permission to continue back to get a closer look. See he respected the sanctity of the area from his training. Something no one has been able to get into the heads of the people that attend there. Once when I was in a catholic bookstore nosing around, I notice one aisle marked “No Kids”. I assume it was where they kept their delicate things. Later I realized it was where they kept the communion vessels and other things that go on the altar. I heard the store owner warn a parent not to allow her child around the holy things. I then went to a Protestant Bookstore and notice two young girls playing with the communion trays as their mothers shopped elsewhere in the store. What a difference the Catholics wouldn’t even allow for the chance for that to happen and the Protestants didn’t seem to even notice. |
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