Its really differnent from christian worship. True some christians stand their, but most christians raise their hands and sing along and are happily clapping their hands. Mormons sit quielty and read/sing from a hymnal book. Its suppose to be reverent, but the differance between christian worship and mormon worship, I found was the connection I got from God and the joy, and some times God even talked to me during christianworship, I even saw a vision or two, but this never happen to me during Mormon worship.
2007-05-25 15:26:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was married to a Mormon for seven years now an EX, and. Yes, I do know these people are "different." Persons with an "identity" crises' and many with "superior" complexes. Not being a Mormon myself, you wouldn't believe how degrading these peoples would be towards me for NOT becoming one of them, and COULD not participate in what was only for MEMBERS of the LDS church. This wife was also unfaithful and taught it was OK, and I was to "tolerate" it?, for I was "beneath" her? It's just another "religion" like all the rest that can't accept "GOD'S" TRUTHS and resorted to making their OWN.........................
2007-05-25 15:41:04 · answer #1 · answered by Theban 5 · 2⤊ 9⤋
Yes, sometime the speakers can be a little hard to comprend, but there are also great spiritual speakers.
The key is whether the speakers has the spirit to teach, and whether the listener has the spirit to learn.
17 Verily I say unto you, he that is ordained of me and sent forth to preach the word of truth by the Comforter, in the Spirit of truth, doth he preach it by the Spirit of truth or some other way?
18 And if it be by some other way it is not of God.
19 And again, he that receiveth the word of truth, doth he receive it by the Spirit of truth or some other way?
20 If it be some other way it is not of God.
21 Therefore, why is it that ye cannot understand and know that, he that receiveth the word by the Spirit of truth receiveth it as it is preached by the Spirit of truth?
22 Wherefore, he that preacheth and he that receiveth, understand one another, and both are edified and rejoice together.
23 And that which doth not edify is not of God, and is darkness.
(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 50:17 - 24)
And my last point:
11 We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
(Pearl of Great Price | Articles of Faith 1:11)
2007-05-26 03:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by Wahnote 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not all Christians worship as you described. I'm Lutheran and we pretty much sit in our pews, read scriptures, sing a few songs, and listen to the sermon. It's very quiet and peaceful.
Stick with whatever works for you. Everybody worships however they can to feel closer to God and you've found your way.
2007-05-25 22:34:54 · answer #3 · answered by Suse 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Let's all sing the Mantra of Quiet: Fold your arms and march to:
"Reverently, quietly
Folded arms like small zombies"..
Organs and Piano are God's One True Instruments, and any tempo above the heartbeat of the geriactic high priests is the work of Satan, as are any sounds made by any musical instrument carried in a case.
Sound itself is strongly discouraged.
Actually, Joseph Smith didn't like the evangelical nature the early church was adopting, and clamped down on the extemporaneous shouting, dancing, speaking in tongues and 'revelating'. His Kirtland Temple dedication DID, however, have that flavor.
The rest is 'history', or another 'work of Satan'
2007-05-27 10:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps you should publish your visions if they are from God? If God gives you visions then they must be really important and the world must surely be able to benefit from them.
But then, I suspect that your cult is OK with you having "visions" as long as you don't publish them because if you start to say that you have visions and start publishing them they will probably tar and feather you, and you will be quickly told that you can't add anything to the Bible and that visions no longer happen and that God only speaks to mankind through the Bible, because if your visions are from God and you publish them, they are then by default "the word of God."
Otherwise if they are not the word of God, then they must be the word of Satan. So will you dare to publish your visions and claim that they are from God, and risk being shunned by your own cult for adding to the word of God, or keep them to yourself and admit they must be the word of Satan?
2007-05-27 02:35:56 · answer #5 · answered by angryspade 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me that you are not comparing Mormon worship with what you incorrectly call "Christian" worship, but rather you are comparing it to "pentecostal" worship. There is such a wide variety of different styles of worship amongst Christians faiths.
2007-05-25 23:57:34 · answer #6 · answered by BryanN 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋
I like how at the LDS church your whole family is with you, not just the adults and the children shipped to nursery, ect. I liked sitting with my daughter and watching other families sit with their childre. Especially when someone is talking and I just can't pay attention watching a cute little baby was more of a spiritual experience, maybe because I was pregnant hmmm maybe.
2007-05-26 09:26:58 · answer #7 · answered by divinity2408 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think that Mormons are Christians, technically, because they are members of a group which recognizes Jesus as their savior. SInce individual religious groups define Christianity in different ways, though, many people do not consider Momons to be Christians. In the end, it is all in how you define the word 'Christian'.
2007-05-25 22:31:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Uh...this isn't normal...you got visions?!? Mormons believe that God deserves their reverence and if you are truely there for the right reasons you can feel His presence...
2007-05-26 21:31:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I've been in mainline denominations where almost none of the people were born again and their worship services sound very much like what you describe.
I remember this one service I attended, I was singing as was the Pastor of that church, we were the only two singing in the whole church, except for the choir, and the person sitting next to me was elbowing me in the ribs saying, "Don't sing so loud!".
The words of the song were as follows:
Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore;
Mortals give thanks and sing, and triumph evermore;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
Jesus, the Savior, reigns, the God of truth and love;
When He had purged our stains He took His seat above;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
His kingdom cannot fail, He rules over earth and heaven,
The keys of death and hell are to our Jesus given;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
He sits at God's right hand till all His foes submit,
And bow to His command, and fall beneath His feet:
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
He all His foes shall quell, shall all our sins destroy,
And every bosom swell with pure seraphic joy;
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
Rejoice in glorious hope! Jesus the Judge shall come,
And take His servants up to their eternal home.
We soon shall hear th'archangel's voice;
The trump of God shall sound, rejoice!
Pastor Art
2007-05-25 22:36:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I also have been to a Mormon church and felt no move of the Holy Spirit. They are taught by whowever wants to do the teaching that week and to me it was like sheep without a Shepherd. I was raised Baptist and although Baptist does line up with the word of God and is Christian (where Mormon is a cult) They also did not worship like a faith church and use the gifts of the spirit. But as you grow in faith and worship you will find that all the gifts promised in the bible are waiting for the believers to use.
2007-05-25 22:37:08 · answer #11 · answered by Godb4me 5 · 1⤊ 7⤋