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11-18-2011, 09:53 AM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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Re: Loudness In Churches.
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Take em out...
...for coffee. Reason together. If they don't come to terms, oops, did I spill my hot coffee all over you? I'm an iced coffee guy, hot stuff just for the ocas... o-c-c-a... ocas... um, just for this meeting.
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Except for the spilling of coffee on people... that sounds like a good approach. 
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11-18-2011, 10:34 AM
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Isaiah 56:4-5
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Re: Loudness In Churches.
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Except for the spilling of coffee on people... that sounds like a good approach. |
You're welcome
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11-18-2011, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Jay
Hey! Watch it about the walking. 
I do know what you mean, I sometimes pray best if I walk, and when I get with it, I can walk quickly. However, I also try to keep my mind on God, and surprisingly, as long as there are not too many other walkers, you can actually pray unhindered. I do not try this in large groups over much, or I stick to a small area, it helps with collisions (small children in unattended can still become a traffic hazard).
As for the way other people are praying, do not let their praying (or lack of it) distract you from your praying, and if you are noticing them, you need to redirect your focus (no criticism from me as I have to tell myself that if I am not careful, it takes time and prayer to tune others out). What you can do is learn from them, and people who you know are truly praying. I determined very early that I did not want to be a 3 word wonder saying, "Jesus, Hallelujah, Glory," constantly. I instead attempted to pray like my father or my favorite Sunday School teacher, or the pastor's mother (she can pray). I eventually found my own way, and pray with as much power and passion as I can. |
I know, it's all a matter of what you get used to walk away, just don't run over anyone just arriving LOL
I like to go to the church in the daytime- like I did today- and be totally alone to pray. It's the only time I've ever been able to connect.
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11-18-2011, 10:59 PM
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Re: Loudness In Churches.
My mother took ear plugs to church cuz the noise bothered her..............
(and she did request they turn sound system level down)
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11-19-2011, 09:02 PM
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Re: Loudness In Churches.
I haven't read all ten pages and maybe this has already been mentioned, but people need to understand that frequent exposure to extremely loud music will cause deafness. It's ok to give it your best effort but that doesn't mean yelling as loud as you can. I left a singing once because it was too loud.
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11-19-2011, 09:36 PM
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Re: Loudness In Churches.
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Originally Posted by Angel48
I know, it's all a matter of what you get used to walk away, just don't run over anyone just arriving LOL
I like to go to the church in the daytime- like I did today- and be totally alone to pray. It's the only time I've ever been able to connect. |
I like to be totally alone as well AND I'm a walker -or the correct term is probably pacer. I'm a lot like Rob Petri as he paced in their office while writing the script for that weeks episode of the Allan Brady show.
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11-19-2011, 10:24 PM
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Apostolic Pentecostal
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Re: Loudness In Churches.
I just do not care for my church services to sound like a rock concert. That is far to loud, and I have rather sensitive hearing. I try to avoid things like that. I want a real move of God not one of these hyped up show.
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11-19-2011, 10:43 PM
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the ultracon
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Re: Loudness In Churches.
I was in a service one tiime where he pastors wife felt compelled to shout Amen Glory to God , Hallelujah from her perch on the front row.
After each "paragraph" she had to holler.
Drove me about nuts.
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11-20-2011, 01:53 PM
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Re: Loudness In Churches.
I have not caught up on this thread but for those of you who directly relate loudness to annoniting and the presence of God you will pleased to know my son and I recently bought our young but growing church a 1,000 watt Subwoofer. Now granted it does not produce a loud noise but it does generate bass frequencies enough to vibrate your insides and frees up the main speakers to better handle output.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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11-20-2011, 09:09 PM
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Apostolic Pentecostal
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Re: Loudness In Churches.
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Originally Posted by Angel48
I know, it's all a matter of what you get used to walk away, just don't run over anyone just arriving LOL
I like to go to the church in the daytime- like I did today- and be totally alone to pray. It's the only time I've ever been able to connect. |
I promise that I will not demolish anybody coming into church. I pray at the back of the sanctuary, and that is where everyone comes in. I generally hear the door open, and can time myself to not hit anyone (my security training comes in very handy to do things like that without being distracted from my main objective).
It all depends on your definitions of 'loud' I suppose. I know that there are people that if you pray above a whisper, you are entirely to 'loud'.
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