Comments on: Pastors who forget to tell you to sit back down.

By: Bubbleskid

Bubbleskid — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:14:12 +0000

I will be the first to sit down. I sit down whenever I want! I feel NO compulsion to stand, unless Scripture is being read. Now, I DO stand, for songs, prayers, etc., but when I'm ready to sit I just go right ahead and sit myself down, and I don't care what anybody thinks! This isn't usually a problem in a traditional service, which I usually attend, because sitting and standing are usually in planned alternation. But at "contemporary" services, there is usually one long block of standing, so I just go ahead and sit down after about the 2nd song.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:54:24 +0000

This happened at a wedding I was at a couple summers ago. The pastor had us stand in the beginning for a prayer I believe….then never told the crowd to sit back down….so we all stood during the vows and everything! I wanted to sit….but I just couldn't go it alone…I fell victim to the foot bondage!

By: Melody

Melody — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:50:40 +0000

Perk of being Catholic #5863

By: joanna

joanna — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:39:12 +0000

Who says you need to get up? Just stay there for the whole service

By: msbarnes

msbarnes — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:47:47 +0000

I traveled to an orphanage in Kenya this summer with a friend of mine where we were totally guilty of this! The children have a procedure they do when entering into worship..1. corporate prayer, 2. private yet outloud prayer, 3. singing, and 4. standing until the speaker of the night says sit down. Several times my friend and I spoke and forgot to tell the children to sit. Instead of reaching phase 7 the children stood…the.entire.time. We definitely felt bad about not allowing them to sit!

By: Kyriaki

Kyriaki — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:47:37 +0000

*grins*

This post made me giggle, because I know what it would have been like, having grown up evangelical protestant.

But if you think that's hard…come to an Orthodox Church and stand for the entirety of the 1.5 hour service…or longer! That's just the Divine Liturgy and there's often Orthros beforehand (Matins) and that in my parish goes for 2 hours…

…we do sit down if we have to. But mostly we don't.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:34:17 +0000

Brilliant! I laughed a lot here!

By: Brian Yu

Brian Yu — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:25:37 +0000

Hilarious! Reminds me of the times when the worship leaders asks us to sit down only to have us stand up again. Awkward.

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Hump Day Link List « Thinking Out Loud — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:43:06 +0000

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By: Graham Brenna

Graham Brenna — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:38:58 +0000

agreed. it seems we'd just be solving one problem with another problem here.