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Oculus Spirit [93687]
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Anyone here ever gone to sleep in church?
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Feb 3, 2024, 8:42 AM
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I'm ashamed to say I've dozed a time or two though it's not without precedence. I've heard that it takes at least 15 minutes to preach a complete message but no topic is worthy of more than 20. Evidently, that's wrong.
Act 20:
"9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead."
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Funny. Let's face it; he could belabor a point.***
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Feb 3, 2024, 9:09 AM
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He was wordy, but he had a lot to say.***
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Feb 3, 2024, 9:28 AM
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And another thing ...***
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Feb 3, 2024, 9:36 AM
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Oculus Spirit [93687]
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Paul was like Christ in a certain manner.
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Feb 3, 2024, 11:48 AM
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If one isn't paying full attention to his writings it appears Paul goes off on a lot of tangents. He will be talking about something and seem to jump topics. Don't ask how I know.
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You are right.
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Feb 3, 2024, 12:11 PM
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Maybe it's okay to poke a little fun at his style. He himself said, "I am chief among sinners", so maybe this is what he was talking about. The NIV is funny: "... as Paul talked on and on." I figure there were similar comments after it was all over. "I'm just glad I wasn't the one sitting in the window; I was nodding off myself."
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Oculus Spirit [93687]
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Couple issues with Paul's longwinded sermons...
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Feb 3, 2024, 6:53 PM
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Paul and all the apostles preached the Torah, 12 books of history and the Psalms. They had to show their fellow Hebrews that Christ had to die for their sins and be resurrected as certification. OT promises of Christ are few and far between.
I doubt today's Bible teachers know more than a third of the prophesies. Imo, Paul wasn't going around the block he was insuring that all within the range of his voice got enough details to reason Jesus as Christ.
Jesus pulled some stunts too. James was slick as owl grease. For unlearned men Peter was one heck of a preacher. He assisted in the conversion of an Ethiopian Eunuch. However, it only took the reading of one portion of one book so I imagine the Ethiopian was well versed due to Solomon having married a queen of that nation.
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Re: Couple issues with Paul's longwinded sermons...
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Feb 3, 2024, 9:00 PM
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Maybe Apollo was Alistair Begg, and everybody else had to be Charles Stanley.
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Oculus Spirit [93687]
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So 'ensure,', might have been a better way to spell that.
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Feb 3, 2024, 10:14 PM
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My spelling is horrible. It's gotten worse since spellcheck. If it a word doesn't highlight in red I can't see how it's misspelled. I really am dumber than a rock.
My grandmother, born in the mid 1880s taught me to read when I was 4. I write words here which I would be embarrassed to attempt to pronounce.
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I did when I was a kid. Once.
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Feb 3, 2024, 10:00 AM
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For some odd reason I never fell asleep again in church.
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Didn't fall asleep, but this happened.
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Feb 3, 2024, 11:42 AM
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At our little small town baptist church, as soon as you were old enough to not sit with your parents, you went to the balcony. We would sit on the back row up there (no one else was even up there) and pass notes and candy, flirt, tell fart jokes, typical preteen stuff. I guess we got a little rowdy one Sunday, because the preacher stopped his sermon, pointed his finger, and fussed at us. And at our parents. He was halfway done before any of us knew he was doing it. I figured our parents would stomp right up and yank us back downstairs. But no. And at home that afternoon all my parents said was, "Y'all keep it down up there." Looking back on it, he must have been Pauline in his preaching style, and they must have understood.
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I think it happens because of the feeling of refuge folks get in church.
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Feb 3, 2024, 11:57 AM
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If you're comfortable you know there's no danger and the wife/kids/grankids aren't going to demand your attention. Any volume from the preacher's voice is muffled with the fact that even aggression from the pulpit is beneficial and not won't hurt anything but your feelings.
Frankly, I haven't fallen asleep in church since...so long I can't remember ever sleeping in church. IDK if I ever have but I think it's funny when two old men, one on one side of the auditorium and one on the other, snore at one another.
Russel Simons a banker in Rockwood and Mr Smith a druggist did that a couple times. Everyone including Robert Campbell (the preacher) laughed about it. I treasure those days.
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There was a professor at Clemson back in the 1990's named Dr. Nichols
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Feb 3, 2024, 1:12 PM
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RIP. He was a history professor. For some reason students often felt so safe and comfortable in his classroom that they fell asleep FREQUENTLY.
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Dr Shaffer, I think is the spelling, was my History 101 professor.
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Feb 3, 2024, 10:16 PM
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He might be my favorite all time college professor. I had an English teacher who was hotter than the 4th of July who might have tied him for first place. I knew no man as objective as Shaffer. He is my hero. RIP Professor!
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No sleeping.
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Feb 3, 2024, 12:43 PM
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But I can remember this one old dude and his wife….he was out of his pew right at 12. Didn’t matter if preacher was done or not. They left.
Had to catch the start of the race.
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Man after my own heart. Enough is enough.***
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Feb 3, 2024, 1:53 PM
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Can't miss out on the one true god: Dale Earnhardt***
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Feb 3, 2024, 2:13 PM
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I'm glad he didn't...
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Feb 3, 2024, 6:54 PM
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rise from the grave. All hail would have broken loose had that happened.
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There were times I longed for service to end early so...
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Feb 3, 2024, 6:44 PM
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I could get my six kids to Ryans before the crowd showed up. It was about the only dine out I could afford and having to guide the children around the food bar was quite a challenge even when the crowd was thin.
I remember picking my 2 yr/o daughter up after church so we could rush to Ryans after church and noticing that the little chit wasn't wearing panties.
Good times, right?
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No, the churches I grew up in were quite lively, it would be pretty hard to
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Feb 3, 2024, 1:47 PM
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doze off lol
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Oculus Spirit [93687]
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Me too.
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Feb 3, 2024, 10:25 PM
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My brother, sister and mother and I attended the church which was closest to our home. My dad was a truckdriver who changed jobs like I changed underwear, once a week it seemed. We didn't have a car so most of the time we walked to church.
I suppose I remember the Pentecostal churches more than others because we seemed to find one within walking distance in 75% of the communities we lived in. Once, in Gallitin TN we lived two doors away from a Church of God. I was involved in everything but snake handling.
I remember reading, or saying I read, 70 chapters of the Bible to win the 'Who Read the Most,' contest. I won but quit the church when they didn't post my picture on the cork board at the back of the auditorium.
Then sent a good looking teenage girl to fetch me. Dirty Pentecostals, not playing fair at all.
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Re: Me too.
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Feb 4, 2024, 12:18 PM
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Ours didn't do snake handling but there was definitely the running around and speaking in tongues.
I remember having a great time at camp until the youth pastor asked me if I was ready to speak in tongues. I noped out of that.
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I was a Jimmy Swaggard viewer back in the 70's after I got saved.
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Feb 4, 2024, 5:19 PM
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He was asking folks who want to speak in tongues to join with him in prayer. I did. God said, 'This is not for you.' He hasn't contacted me about it since and I never brought it up again.
I never went to a church that handled snakes. Far as I'm concerned there are snakes enough in the church body that one has to handle with faith and care.
You know what turns a lot of people off to church, Christ and salvation? Real Christians who look down upon the lost.
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Re: I was a Jimmy Swaggard viewer back in the 70's after I got saved.
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Feb 4, 2024, 5:22 PM
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>You know what turns a lot of people off to church, Christ and salvation? Real Christians who look down upon the lost.
I can see that. I never really had a bad experience with people in church, though, it was just the ideas.
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It's usually folks who know you well who give you a lot of...
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Feb 4, 2024, 6:12 PM
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grief over the way you live. It's just selfrighteousness gone amuck. It's easy to fall into that as we spoke in another thread here.
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Re: It's usually folks who know you well who give you a lot of...
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Feb 4, 2024, 6:30 PM
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Yep, I saw it happen for sure, but nobody was ever a jerk to me specifically. got lucky I guess.
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Re: Anyone here ever gone to sleep in church?
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Feb 5, 2024, 8:32 AM
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Nodded off. Never really "asleep".
I think the human attention span is 20 minutes max. Anything more and we just glaze over..
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Re: Anyone here ever gone to sleep in church?
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Feb 5, 2024, 9:53 AM
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Yes, but I worked third shift at the time.
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