Comments on: Lent, Ceremony and Evangelicalism http://www.okieonthelam.com/2005/02/08/lent-ceremony-and-evangelicalism/ Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: OkieBoy http://www.okieonthelam.com/2005/02/08/lent-ceremony-and-evangelicalism/comment-page-1/#comment-391 OkieBoy Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:42:04 +0000 http://www.okieonthelam.com/?p=338#comment-391 Mark -- In my own wordy, meandering way, I was agreeing with you! Thanks for coming over, reading and commenting. -- Okie Mark — In my own wordy, meandering way, I was agreeing with you!

Thanks for coming over, reading and commenting. — Okie

]]> By: Laer Pearce http://www.okieonthelam.com/2005/02/08/lent-ceremony-and-evangelicalism/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Laer Pearce Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:59:16 +0000 http://www.okieonthelam.com/?p=338#comment-390 Beautiful post, Okie Boy. Really got me thinking about my basically church-less upbringing, and my coming to the Lord at Saddleback Church, which is about as modern evangelical as you can get. Now we go to Stonecreek (www.stonecreek.org), an unpretentious, Gospel-loving, community-loving little assembly that is short on grandeur, but when we do something grand, boy does it feel good. Two weeks ago, most unfortuntately, I found myself at the Episcopal funeral of a friend who died suddenly, leaving his family in shock. I found little comfort or solace in the service, but it was obvious his family did. The ceremony and formality spoke to them of their relationship to the Lord. How marvelous that He works in so many ways! Beautiful post, Okie Boy. Really got me thinking about my basically church-less upbringing, and my coming to the Lord at Saddleback Church, which is about as modern evangelical as you can get. Now we go to Stonecreek (www.stonecreek.org), an unpretentious, Gospel-loving, community-loving little assembly that is short on grandeur, but when we do something grand, boy does it feel good.

Two weeks ago, most unfortuntately, I found myself at the Episcopal funeral of a friend who died suddenly, leaving his family in shock. I found little comfort or solace in the service, but it was obvious his family did. The ceremony and formality spoke to them of their relationship to the Lord. How marvelous that He works in so many ways!

]]> By: Mark Sides http://www.okieonthelam.com/2005/02/08/lent-ceremony-and-evangelicalism/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Mark Sides Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:16:18 +0000 http://www.okieonthelam.com/?p=338#comment-389 Okie, Thanks for the link. You are exactly right that Easter is there for everybody and taks no special ceremony. My only point is that the celebration of Ash Wednesday, the observance of Lent, and the grandeur and pagaentry all add to teh Christian experience and that Evangelical Churches (at least the churches I have been to) are the poorer for the lack of those ceremonial aspects. Mark Okie,

Thanks for the link. You are exactly right that Easter is there for everybody and taks no special ceremony. My only point is that the celebration of Ash Wednesday, the observance of Lent, and the grandeur and pagaentry all add to teh Christian experience and that Evangelical Churches (at least the churches I have been to) are the poorer for the lack of those ceremonial aspects.

Mark

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