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i remember when i watched the movie A Christmas Without Snow at one point during the performance of Handel's Messiah, when Daisietta Kim was singing her solo, the church was quiet when listening to her. Now i have watched Jimmy Swaggart's church as well a few other churches where the crowd would be excited, shouting during choruses(those are the songs that Pencostals are known for singing) and also during Brother Swaggart's sermon but maybe that's because they are Pentecostal churches whereas the church that was in the movie was either Catholic or Lutheran and the rules for those churches were different. Also in the movie there is just a organ whereas in Swaggart's church(and in many other Pentecostal churches) there is a full band and also sometimes people would be dancing during songs is there are reason why some churches are quiet while other are really enthusiastic during service?
i remember when i watched the movie A Christmas Without Snow at one point during the performance of Handel's Messiah, when Daisietta Kim was singing her solo, the church was quiet when listening to her. Now i have watched Jimmy Swaggart's church as well a few other churches where the crowd would be excited, shouting during choruses(those are the songs that Pencostals are known for singing) and also during Brother Swaggart's sermon but maybe that's because they are Pentecostal churches whereas the church that was in the movie was either Catholic or Lutheran and the rules for those churches were different. Also in the movie there is just a organ whereas in Swaggart's church(and in many other Pentecostal churches) there is a full band and also sometimes people would be dancing during songs is there are reason why some churches are quiet while other are really enthusiastic during service?
The same reason people are quiet during a prom (apart from obbligato coughing, dropping beer -bottles and mobile phones going off) and screaming and yelling during a rock concert. It is a difference ambience expected and obtained.
The same reason people are quiet during a prom (apart from obbligato coughing, dropping beer -bottles and mobile phones going off) and screaming and yelling during a rock concert. It is a difference ambience expected and obtained.
Not a bad summation.
It's a doctrinal thing, as well. Some churches teach that the Holy Spirit is moving and shaking and causing people to act like that. I grew up Catholic, and we were never taught anything like that. Now, in my Evangelical Church, I still haven't seen any doctrinal reason why the Spirit would move in a church setting like that, and I believe that Paul wrote in 1 Cor 13 that we ought to be under control.
Other churches just tend to be more lively. The first time I got an "AMEN!" when I was preaching I was just kind of shocked. I hadn't expected it, and didn't preach to try to elicit that response. Some pastors do--depending on the congregation. That's ok--that's just the tradition they're in.
I'm not being mean i just saying that when i saw this movie(it was made in 1980) it was in a church where the people were quiet. also the audience is not shouting things like "Amen!" or "Come on!" at the soprano soloist, Daisietta Kim where as in a church like Swaggart's or even Oral Roberts, the crowd would shout those things at Jimmy or Oral(i remember one time, the crowd in Oral's church got really excited at what he was talking about that i thought they had gone crazy. My mom told me it was the style of churches like Oral's or even Jimmy Swaggart's back in the day)
The first time I got an "AMEN!" when I was preaching I was just kind of shocked. I hadn't expected it, and didn't preach to try to elicit that response.
That made me laugh. If someone shouted "Amen!" in an LDS worship service (in response to something that was said in a "sermon"), I can just see the faces of the entire congregation:
We all say a more or less reverent, "Amen" at the end of a prayer, but that's about as rowdy as we get.
That made me laugh. If someone shouted "Amen!" in an LDS worship service (in response to something that was said in a "sermon"), I can just see the faces of the entire congregation:
We all say a more or less reverent, "Amen" at the end of a prayer, but that's about as rowdy as we get.
Yes, I grew up in the Reformed Church, where you sat still and were quiet for a long, boring sermon that followed a long, boring prayer. For some reason we all went to a Pentecostal Service where someone was speaking in an auditorium, and the people yelling "Praise the Lord!" and whatnot throughout the speech were at first shocking, then my siblings and I got the giggles waiting for the next outburst. We'd never seen or heard that behavior before.
That made me laugh. If someone shouted "Amen!" in an LDS worship service (in response to something that was said in a "sermon"), I can just see the faces of the entire congregation:
We all say a more or less reverent, "Amen" at the end of a prayer, but that's about as rowdy as we get.
Yes, that's what I've found in my recent Sunday visits to a Mormon Church. Apparently the sanctuary is a place of total reverence ...although a few mild quips might be made from the pulpit to elicit modest laughter from the congregation. They don't appear to be 'stuffy' ....just reverent. None of their hymn singing encourages any tapping of the feet ...I'm a musician, I've tried, can't do it. Afterwards, however, when socializing I find these very same people for the most part warm and friendly and some of them quite fun. While I doubt that I will ever accept Joseph Smith or the general doctrines of the LDS Church (or those of any Church) I think I'll continue to visit the church on a semi-regular basis for the fellowship alone.
Precisely. Reference the song, Tradition! from Fiddler on the Roof.
Which is back on Broadway!
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