tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041509706154090534.post5037017326087907810..comments2023-10-10T09:31:36.354-05:00Comments on By Grace Alone: The Awkward Handshake...and other "Traditions"Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17620657390402998257noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041509706154090534.post-28215175922031987952014-12-09T09:39:25.597-06:002014-12-09T09:39:25.597-06:00Thanks for the love, brothers. Thanks for the love, brothers. Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17620657390402998257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041509706154090534.post-25111065324729153892014-12-09T04:43:07.989-06:002014-12-09T04:43:07.989-06:00What Gregg said.
After an article like this, I wou...What Gregg said.<br />After an article like this, I would like to shake your hand!Eddie Eddingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15864410680077755048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041509706154090534.post-87333481623707185262014-12-08T14:40:51.356-06:002014-12-08T14:40:51.356-06:00Great post Dude! I have done a few funerals in my ...Great post Dude! I have done a few funerals in my time, but I can't ever recall standing at the head of the casket. Of course I guess I should say now that I think about, I have done many more memorials and gravesides than services where the body was present. I have attended "viewings" with members but stayed in the background unless needed.<br /><br />As far as the greeting, sounds like a couple of your folks might blow a gasket if they read Martyn Lloyd-Jones thoughts on the "so called greeting." He didn't have one, and was against it. He basically said we are coming into the presence of our Sovereign God, greet Him. He didn't do a welcome to the service either.<br /><br />I am sure they greeted one another after the service during fellowship time.<br /><br />We don't do handshakes in our service. Our first church didn't do it so I didn't start it. the second church did it but I dropped it and chose to ride out the storm, eventually the wind and waves stopped. Here in this plant we don't do it and when we grow and get a building we won't do it.<br /><br />I think (no offense is intended here and this is just my opinion I usually keep to myself) but I think it is so phony. It seems to be people don't care enough about one another to greet one another when they see each other and the preacher forces them to greet one another by saying, "Shake the hand next to you." I just can't get into it.<br /><br />Our greeting at NKBC is short and simple, "Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, grace and peace to you from the Father through the Son. Then I go into a reading of scripture.<br /><br />I don't know why people shove cake in their beloved's face. I cover respect in the pre-marital counseling which includes things like don't shove cake in your beloved's face.<br /><br />Great post, good to just ramble on now and then. BTW, sorry to hear you aren't slipping much. comes with age, older you get the less you need. <br /><br />I haven't told you much, but I do appreciate brother! <br />Gregg Metcalfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16413691313803396844noreply@blogger.com