Don’t you know anything? Nobody says, “Amen,” in a Presbyterian church. I mean, that is right up there with kicking puppy dogs and clubbing baby seals to death. Remember, they don’t call themselves the frozen chosen for no reason.
Michael, the lapsed Presbyterian-gone-Baptist, has it exactly right. My preacher once told me that if you go to a church service where the preacher says something really good and the congregation yells, “Praise Jesus! Hallelujah!”, then you’re in a Pentecostal church. If they say, “Amen!”, then you’re in a Baptist church. And if they reflectively muse in their minds, “Hmm…good point,” then you’ve found a Presbyterian church, my friend.
"For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."
-St. Paul, writing in II Corinthians 4:5-6 (ESV)
That’s just funny. Perhaps you can do a sermon one day on “The Evils Among Us” with emphasis on your experiences at the “Y”
Preach it brother, and I’ll say the ‘amen.’
Charlie,
Don’t you know anything? Nobody says, “Amen,” in a Presbyterian church. I mean, that is right up there with kicking puppy dogs and clubbing baby seals to death. Remember, they don’t call themselves the frozen chosen for no reason.
Michael, the lapsed Presbyterian-gone-Baptist, has it exactly right. My preacher once told me that if you go to a church service where the preacher says something really good and the congregation yells, “Praise Jesus! Hallelujah!”, then you’re in a Pentecostal church. If they say, “Amen!”, then you’re in a Baptist church. And if they reflectively muse in their minds, “Hmm…good point,” then you’ve found a Presbyterian church, my friend.